Great Video
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Texas State Railroad in Rusk is cool.
I watched the famous Santa Fe heavy mountain 3751 chugging by both ways on the route of the San Diegan about ten years ago. What a sight! What really stuck in my mind was the orange glow flickering below the firebox at night.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_3751
Around 1990 I took several photos of Norfolk & Western number 610. It was pulling excursion cars near Old Fort N.C.
It looks fairly modern for a steam engine.
Back in 2000, when I still lived in New Mexico, we rode both the Cumbres and Toltec in Chama, and the Durango railroad. They both used to be part of the same network. Durango was funny because there’s a McDonalds right next to the station, so if you go in to order breakfast, there might be a steam engine warming up about 50 feet from where you’re standing.
One of the coolest places I’ve ever visited, was when we visited England a few years ago, and went up to York and went to the National Railway Museum, there.
When I worked in China 1976 - 1977, I took a jet from Beijing to Chengdu and then a train to the village where I worked. It was pulled with a steam engine. About six months later, I had to go north to Harbin and then a LOT further north into Manchuria — all trains, all pulled by steam locomotives. It was really something.
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“Full Steam Ahead” a 6-part British history of the railroads is a good watch on YouTube. From gravity powered trains to Victorian milk trains. Made only a few years ago. Great if you really like the age of steam.
Excellent video!
Anybody in the vicinity of Pennsylvania, don’t forget to visit the Railroad Museum down in Strasburg (near Lancaster).
Dozens of old cars, loads of memorabilia. https://rrmuseumpa.org/
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Anyone who can get RFDTV (Ch345 on Directv) can watch the hour long program “Trains and Locomotives” every Monday evening at 5:00 - lots of good videos of all sorts of trains from steam excursions in the west to passenger locals into New York City - interesting historical and operational perspectives on railroading through the ages - our DVR is set to record every episode....
The 1880 Train runs two vintage steam locomotives in South Dakota’s Black Hills.