Rockton & Rion #19 working a freight train near Rockton, SC || July 1965
Flagg Coal Company 0-4-0ST No. 75 pours it on. The locomotive is just about to cross Hwy 321 as it makes it way back to the Rockton yard of the South Carolina Railroad Museum.
The SCRM fire protection crew follow Flagg Coal 75 out the short line with a water pump car in tow. Click HERE to see what happen... (more)
75 might be a tiny little thing, but her beautiful three chime whistle sounded great echoing through the piney woods of steam-starved SC.
Though she's small, Flagg Coal 75 set fires along the drought striken ROW in a big way. The museum's fire crew with a water tank on a speeder (seen just over the nose of the fire truck) could not ... (more)
This little ten wheeler keeps a watchful eye over the museum parking lot, which was bustling with visitors eager to see Flagg Coal 75. This particular specimen is a 1927 Baldwin product with 51" ... (more)
Quite a carravan of chasers were out to watch this little tea kettle in action and many of these short trips out of the museum were sold out.