This is truly one of my favorite shots. John the fireman at speed. He ran this engine SP 2472 when it ran for Southern Pacific. Still having fun when we shot this.
Don
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This is truly one of my favorite shots. John the fireman at speed. He ran this engine SP 2472 when it ran for Southern Pacific. Still having fun when we shot this.
Don
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That's genuine railroading, Don. Thanks for posting it.
He's obviously got his eye on the road ahead and on the exhaust stack, but you can bet that he has been taken back to his youth in a unique way that few can experience. All his aches and pains are gone this day!
Here's my favorite steam loco shot...
My good friend, former OGR staffer and fellow 765 crew member George Seil took this photo.
I love it because of the "mood" of the shot (a foggy morning in Huntington, West Virginia), but also because of the two people standing there. It gives you a great sense of perspective showing how big the 765 is.
This is one of over 200 photos that appear in my 765 book.
@Hot Water posted:
Wow.. Nice picture!! Is that you Hot Water??
@Hot Water posted:
I see the throttle is in the “company notch.” Love it!
@Rich Melvin posted:I see the throttle is in the “company notch.” Love it!
Darn right! And note where the reverse gear is, and the steam chest pressure gauge is reading. Speed wast probably 65 to 70 MPH, eastbound on the SP main line across Arizona, if I remember correctly.
@Hot Water posted:Darn right! And note where the reverse gear is, and the steam chest pressure gauge is reading. Speed wast probably 65 to 70 MPH, eastbound on the SP main line across Arizona, if I remember correctly.
Oh yeah...I noticed that, too. You’ve got ‘er hooked up just right for that speed, Jack!
My favorite shot (of mine) is from chasing the UP 4014 exactly one year ago, when they made their big Southwestern tour. We caught up with it in SW Utah - this shot is from Milford, UT after they had tied down for the night.
I posted a series of pictures from our chase about a year ago on OGR. As it turned out, I didn't have any really good shots with it under steam. My all-time favorite pictures of 4014 from that tour are the snow pictures taken by Erik Lindgren in Colorado near the end of the tour and posted here.
- Rich
I'm afraid I can't boil it down to just one ...but here's one that makes me smile every time I look at it...so ya wanna be a movie star???
Once in a lifetime chance for us Easterners to see this magnificent machine. Caught her just East of West Chicago and without people/fans in the photo!
Can't boil down one particular favorite, but I've loved this one lately.
A pair of volunteers create a stamping on a connecting rod of Reading 2100.
@TrainMan1225 posted:
OK, please explain just why they are stamping ANYTHING into a side/main rod.
In the cab of NKP 765
@Hot Water posted:OK, please explain just why they are stamping ANYTHING into a side/main rod.
It was to denote where the rod was mounted. I do not recall that there were any other visible stampings denoting this. This was done under the supervision of our running gear contractor, Dan Pluta.
My pictures.
Here's a couple that I am fond of that I took. Both being the 765.
765 through the cut in West Park, Pittsburgh's North Side. Never in my lifetime did I think I'd see a steam engine pass through here again.
765 approach to the Ohio Connecting Railroad Bridge northwest of Pittsburgh.
Here are a few of mine from 2000 featuring CPR # 2816 coming Eastbound from Vancouver for the first time under Steam
It was incredible to hear a steam engine barking up grade through the Spiral Tunnels
Up to the Continental Divide at Stephen
Al
My Dad and our Son with the 614 at Somerset, Pa:
The 734 working upgrade:
And from the way-back machine the 2124 and 2100 on a photo-runby somewhere near Tamaqua, Pa:
Black Hills Central 104 at work:
@trainroomgary posted:
I really have to get to your side of the state for several reasons.
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