Anyone Else Fascinated By Old Locomotives?

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Those beautiful women are looking good on the 3985 steam locomotive,

 

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Big Boy #4014 Zero to Forty In Three Minutes

 

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Big Boy #4014 Steam Show

 

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Soo Line 1003 Mikado 2-8-2

 

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Big Boy Locomotives In their heyday

 

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A 1904 Alco meets a 1950 Plymouth as they go about their business on an overcast morning in Tennessee.

 

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Returning from Railfair in Sacramento, Union Pacific 8444 and 3985 power a steam special on WP rails, crossing the Humboldt River about 10 miles east of Elko at Tonka, Nevada

 

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Le baron,,,here's one that I have posted previously..A Plymouth engine :

 

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New Haven Railroad ALCO H-1 class Atlantic 4-4-2 steam locomotive # 1111, is seen situated on a snow covered platform track at South Station in Boston, Massachusetts, ca 1940's

 

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Le baron,,,here's one that I have posted previously..A Plymouth engine :View attachment 137005View attachment 137006

Is it a Hemi ?

 

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he engineer of this huge Milwaukee 2-6-6-2 clearly is ready to depart Tacoma, Washington with his long consist as he looks back for his signals. His train is under the overhead electric wires for which the MILW was famous in the West.

The date is March 1948 and NP engineer and ardent railfan Al Farrow has taken time out of his day to shoot this fine scene of MILW steam in grand form.

 

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As steam locomotives evolved over time there were occasions where one could see the very oldest active steam power posed with the newest as it entered service. The contrast in power could be very dramatic as we see in this photo.

The date is approximately 1915 and the location is Pocatello, Idaho. An early railroad photographer has set up his camera in the Union Pacific yards to capture on film the transition of steam power for it's earliest days to "modern" times. His lens was trained on a pair of Oregon Short Line locomotives spanning from the beginnings of the UP to the then present times.

On the left is venerable 4-4-0 #214 that had been turned out by the Schenectady shops in 1875 during the railroads earliest years. At the time she was looked upon as possessing the most modern refinements in steam power then available. Towering over her to her right is Baldwin's 1912 version of a big 2-8-2 in the form of OSL #1134.

Besides the obvious size difference the 2 locomotives had, the real comparison came in the form of tractive effort. #214 could only boast 16,6043s of tractive force while #1134 as capable of 45,4223s of such tractive force. Needless to say steam power on the OSL had come a long ways in the 40 years between the time the 2 locomotives were built.

Time was rapidly running out to see these 2 generations of motive power working together as occurred on this day. All too soon, #214 would turn her last mile as #1134 soldiered on until some day, she too, would be replaced by yet a newer and more modern example of Union Pacific motive power

 

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Union Pacific's Pocatello, Idaho yards in the post-war downturn in freight business. Here we see UP 2-10-2 #5313 with her cab boarded up and her drive rods and piston rods coated with a protective coating while she waits for her next call to duty.

 

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When there were parades in Erie, Pennsylvania in the early part of the last Century, the Heisler Locomotive Works made certain to enter a float to advertise their geared locomotives.

 

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Central Pacific 4-4-2T #1007 was built in 1860 by Norris Locomotive Works. We see her in East Oakland in 1889. She has been outfitted with steam pumps to aid in fire fighting along the right of way. She was finally scrapped in Sacramento in June, 1901.