Happy hump day, everyone! We are just past the "hump" of summer, but as long as the rails are singing with activity, there is plenty to photograph and share...
I took a trip to Amish Country last week to escape the rain. The Strasburg Rail Road was quite the hopping place that Wednesday. Starting with the smallest train at the time, the Cagney steam ride ran around the gift shops and the locomotive shops.
Some other tiny trains are still earning their keep after a half century or so on the Strasburg property. Numbers 1 and 2 are Plymouths, but different models. No. 1 was actually doing work that day.
Strasburg's Big gun, 2-10-0 number 90 was finishing up a monthly boiler inspection, but not yet filled with water, so no fire was started. Here, they pass the coal bunker.
Also working that day was the freight train. I caught it returning to the locomotive shop after dropping off cars at Leaman Place.
8618 is an SW8. Not only is it interesting to have a caboose on a freight train these days, but I am sure that 22 is the oldest and only wooden caboose on a railroad these days.
Speaking of Leaman Place, here is 4-8-0 no 475 hauling her train to the runaround track where the Strasburg meets Amtrak.
And closing things off with 3 shots of 475 at Cherry Hill. Your turn now. Have you crossed paths with a tourist railroad, museum, freight line or transit road lately? Please post your photos here. Enjoy and have a great week.
