While turning the engine, much of the vapor in the lower part of the image is coming from the turntable's motor.
The roundhouse crewman is refilling the sand for the next day's run, as the daylight is fading fast.
The "Pocono Volcano" has been unleashed! That's what I call Steamtown's Canadian National No. 3254. The locomotive has started it's train with 390 happy passengers right on "The Hill", the 1.5% gr... (more)
484 waits as her train is loaded with passengers on the former Rio Grande.
Running Gear
In the yard before we depart for Cascade Canyon on a Car Shop work-extra. I snuck this shot while kneeling to check a brake piston travel during an air test.
Gettimg ready to take a freight West to Chama, 2-8-2 #498 takes water in the three rail yard in Alamosa in June of 1967
This narrow gauge engine simmers in the yard, waiting for another run up the 4% grade the next day.
Three K-36 class engines under steam, ready to take an end of season special up to Cumbres Pass the next morning.
EBT 17 sits as a static display at the head of a cut of hoppers during the 2006 Fall Spectacular. Thanks to my brother for the lighting.
Flashbulb? What's a Flashbulb?....it's all Ambient Light! Good Morning it's 0500 hrs in Chama New Mexico...and the greatest steam charter of the year is just about ready to get under way!
Good Morning it's 0500 hrs in Chama New Mexico...and the greatest steam charter of the year is just about ready to get under way!
Chama Steam Night Photo Session
This is why the East Broad Top is a trip back in time. Not much in this photo of 15 backing a freight train through the yard says it was taken in 2006 instead of 1946.
It's that time of year again; EBT's Fall Spectacular. EBT 17 sits on display as M1 (gas-electric) keeps her company until its 2PM run on the line. The perfectly placed pumpkin is one of many that ... (more)
With morning fog still in the mountains CN 3254 backs up toward the Steamtown 'station' at 7:47AM.
Three of a kind. 3254 finishes some switching duties between DLW's RS3 and Alco #3000
California Western 2-8-2 #45 simmers in front of the Willits depot, before pulling an excursion train to Northspur and return.
CN 3254 catches a few more more sun rays before heading into the roundhouse to wrap up her day.
Get your dose of steam...repeated daily, Late May through Mid October...every year.
CN #3254 makes an early morning departure enroute to Moscow, PA. Baldwin #26 was in operation and tagged along. bw
CN #3254 and CP #2317 together under steam one last day. The next chance to see a scene like this will be after Steamtown rebuilds the engine which will follow restoration of it's Baldwin #26 and... (more)
East Broad Top's 2-8-0 #15 brings her consist out of the East Broad Top yards to begin the day's excursions
Getting Ready For Days Run
At the Water Tank
Morning Ritual
Preparing for the day's Photo special, the sun has just risen over the mountains.
Early Morning at the Chama Water Tank...Nikon D70, with a polarizing filter. SouthWestRails.com
A "Tourist" point of view of the engine house... SouthWestRails.com
Making the short hop from the Ash Pit to the Water Tank SouthWestRails.com
Resting for the night SouthWestRails.com
Taking on Water SouthWestRails.com
Night time brings a surreal time to the Chama Yards, as 484, the next day's road engine is worked on. In the next stall over is K-36 487, awaiting work after a hot bearing sidelined her. more)
Recently repainted and looking very fine
Taking water in Alamosa.
Minus 20 in Chama. 487 had been on the point of a flanger train over Cumbres.
Just another day at the East Broad Top Railroad or something special in 2005? Visit this narrow guage survivor in Pennsylvania.
Smoggy morning at the Pingzhuang Coal Ry.
Crew prepares the "Yukon Queen" for Railfan Weekend! Look at that fresh graphite on the smokebox! Check out http://community.webshots.com/user/wcubart for more NC Narrow Gauge and Standard gaug... (more)
For the last time in at least the next 5 years, #14 & #15 are under steam together. #15 will take over pulling the weekends excursions as #14 goes in for repairs starting no earlier than 2009.
EBT 14 sits for a few seconds, while the workers in the background get prepared to turn the "armstrong" turntable a few tracks to line up with 14's stall.
It's a gas-electric sandwich with EBT 17 displayed at left, and newly rebuilt EBT 15 sliding past the EBT's home built gas-electric M1.
#15 blasts through the Rockhill Yards with the passenger train about an hour before the next departure.
A worker sprays water to cool the ashes in 15's firebox while she sits outside the roundhouse. The blue glow under the engine is the ashes as they are being dumped into the pit.
Fall Spectacular lighter image
2-8-2 17 and gas-electric M-1 soak up the morning sun while 2-8-2 14, doing some switching, provides the steam seen in the background. Pentax ZX-50, Agfa Scala 200 B&W slide film.
Servicing on the Silverton Wye SouthWestRails.com
A Result of a night photo session with Darel Crawford, he "painted" the locomtoive and depot using high powered flashlights. SouthWestRails.com
On the Durango Ready Track. SouthWestRails.Com
Looking North, the 482 sits in the pre-dawn hours on the Ready Track, waiting to hook up to train # 462, and head to Silverton SouthWestRails.Com
From a unusual vantage point in the Durango Yard, the 481 is being preped on the ready track. SouthWestRails.Com
Cumbres and Toltec 489 undergoing work in the Chama shops.
CN 3254 is at the Steamtown Yard during the park's 10th Anniversary Celebration.
CN 3254 and CP 2317 are seen at Steamtown during the parks 10th Anniversary Celebration.
Mamiya 645 color negative
Morning Rituals in Chama. SouthWestRails.Com
Taking on Water, from here it's all downhill... SouthWestRails.Com
Morning Rituals in Chama, The famous Fosters Hotel, Bar, and Restruant is in the backround... SouthWestRails.Com
After Turning the 488 heads towards the Chama Engine House. SouthWestRails.Com
Disconnected from the train that it helped down Cumbres Pass, K-36 488 is coasting towards the Chama Wye, where it will be turned, and taken to the Chama Engine House. Railroad: Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RailroadLocomotive: Steam 2-8-2Location: Chama, New Mexico, USALocomotive #: CTS 488Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: June 04, 2005
The San Juan arrives, well perhaps, with out the people next to the locomtotive, you'd almost think that this was 1951. SouthWestRails.Com
AC16 221A was constructed by The Baldwin Locomotive Company in the United States in April 1943 - The locomotive (now preserved by QR Heritage) is photographed letting off steam in the Landsborough... (more)
Rail-level view of AC16 waiting in the passing loop at Beerburrum on the North Coast Line with an ARHS-Qld Steam Tour
Front View of AC16 waiting in the passing loop at Beerburrum on the North Coast Line with an ARHS-Qld Steam Tour
Starting up
Steamtown's Mikado is put away for the night after hauling the "Ice Train" back from Tobyhanna.
Stack is capped for cinder control in town
LASTA's SP 745 sits with newer generation locomotives at KCS's roundhouse. I wonder what they've been talking about.
SP’s Texas and New Orleans (T&NO) subsidiary Mikado having been restored waits in the yard the day before beginning a week's worth of runs to accomplish its 300-mile certification. Additional in... (more)
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge (Baldwin built 1925) was rather new on this operation in 1981. D&SNG acquired 481 March 1981. 478 is at right.
CNR 3254 sidles up to old stablemate 3377 in Scranton, PA.
The crew checks over the locomotive before heading to the depot.
This Chinese manufactured locomotive heads to the depot to pull an afternoon excursion.
Train #464 is unloading as 481 pulls the coaches from the earlier 462 around the baloon loop
Exp. of about 8 seconds, shows the night hostler working on the locomoitve at dusk
pulled into the engine House, the 487 is looked over for the Train Unlimited Charter for the next day.
CN 3254 is turned on the turntable at the beginning of the day's operations.
With the Lehigh Valley main overhead, the crew of this Susquehanna freight finishes up their switching before calling it a night. Thanks to the crew for posing and Pete Lerro for putting it all to... (more)
487 pulls up to the classic water tower at Chama in the midst of historical equipment scattered on the adjacent tracks.
What I like about EBT: it's like a time capsule.
The Clash of Generations. Here Baldwin K-36 480 prepares to depart Durango as her older sister, Baldwin's 1875 "Eureka", Eureka & Palisade #4 also prepares for its journey.
Locomotive moving up to take on water at tank
Two narrow gage (wheels inside frames) in front of engine house
QJ7163 is getting a large scoop of coal dropped in its tender by a steam crane. Another steam crane stands by a car loaded with cinders . Deban is the busiest steam engine sevice facility in the m... (more)
