Crews as Silver Creek Station are busy steaming up Silver Creek & Stephenson Heisler No. 2 for the first run of the morning. The engine normally burns coal, but was burning wood this weekend.
Heisler No. 2 streaks through a grove of trees in rural Illinois at a whopping 5 mph.
In Tuolumne, where the West Side was king, the only visible remnants of the glory days are a few miles of abandoned trackage, the sawdust burner at the mill site, a fenced-off railroad yard, the a... (more)
Last day of operations on the Kettle Moraine Railway. Heisler No. 3 with a caboose hop to the bridge just outside of North Lake.