Which Steam Locomotives have pulled trains you have been on?

Yes, I was a Fireman on 4449 that weekend.

The Silverton NG while under the Rio Grande, and the 4449.  The layer as AFT on the Amtrak Transcon Special and SP on the World's Fair Daylight.

2472 for a luncheon in San Jose around 1991 or so and at Niles Canyon 6 or 7 years ago,  Dixiana at Roaring Camp from 1974 to the present, a Heisler or Shay at Yosemite Sugar Pine logging RR back around 1985 or so, and one of the Strasburg locos 5 years ago.

Maybe more.

N&W 611 and 1218, SOU 4501, NKP 765, a loco at Steamtown but I can't remember which one, would have to pull out my video, WMSR 734, several locos at Strasburg RR, and several locos at Cass Scenic Railway.

I've rode on all 3 locomotives at the Strasburg Railroad, as well as their version of Thomas the Tank Engine. Plus No. 60 on the Black River Railroad and no. 142 on the Bel-Del Railroad.

A couple years ago, as a birthday gift from my parents, I was allowed to ride in the cab of No. 40 on the New Hope & Ivyland Railroad. It was hot, sooty, and smokey, and I loved it.

C&O 614, Valley Railroad 3025 & 40, Strasburg 90, and the 0-6-0 at Steamtown.

614 was definitely my favorite!

Hot Water posted:

Yes, I was a Fireman on 4449 that weekend.

It was Great to Meet Gordon Zimmermann that day and hear stories from him while stopped in Wishram.  I will forever say that Doyle starts and stops that lady (4449) so smoothly it is amazing.  Hop I get to meet you the next time you head out to Portland, sir.

Strasburg #475, Western Maryland #734 (favorite) and Wilmington & Western #58.

A K28 on the old DRG&W, a 2-8-2 in Palestine, Texas and a Shay in Georgetown, Colorado.

NKP 765 on the CVSR fall runs multiple times and on the Rocky River to Bellvue trip three or so years ago on Mother's Day. 

It never gets old!!

Trainfest 2014

Ohio Central 6325

Ohio Central 1293

Huckleberry RR

Rio Grande 464

Alaska RR 152

Myself have been on pulled by trains with steam.  SP Mountain, then Cab forward on the daily Argonaut.  Several between Baltimore and Pensacola in the early 1950s.  SP Mogul between Fairbank and Elgin Arizona.

Strasburg RR #90

Strasburg RR #30

Strasburg RR #89

Strasburg RR #475

Strasburg #1  [Ex BEDT #15]

Ex Strasburg RR #1223

Ex Strasburg RR #7002

Ex Steamtown #1278

Steamtown #2317

Steamtown #3254

Steamtown #26

Milwaukee Road #261( Steamtown)

NH&IL #40

C&O #614

VALE #40

BR&W #60

The UP City of Los Angles in the winter of 1948 pulled by 844 and 2 diesels.  We got stalled in the mts west of cheyenne with one diesel puked out and could not make the grade.  Backed up to Cheyenne and got 844 on the front as the helper.  The conductor was really nice to keep me up to date as to what was going on.  I was 5 years old at the time and I remember asking him if we were going to pulled by a double engine (my term for big boy) and he said that it was going to be a big passenger engine number 844 and it would be coming by my window in a few minutes so I could see it.  I was already a train nut then and had up calendars with up steam on them so knew bout the big boys.  The conductor also told me to watch out the window after awhile as there would be a big boy on the waiting alongside with a long train waiting for us to pass. Sure enough it was there sitting on a long track on a slight grade.  That was great excitement for me. 

By morning there was a diesel back on so we lost the steamer sometime during the night.  I recall hearing the chuffing as I fell asleep and it was after midnight.

A French SNCF 141R American build Mikado in 1971, when there was still some steam in France,  in a train from Calais to Paris:

Regards

Fred

Tourist:

St. Elizabeth #4, 0-4-0T

Flagg Coal #75, 0-4-0T

Lehigh Valley Coal #126, 0-6-0T (ridden behind, fired it, and ran it).

Western Maryland #734

Strasburg #90, 2-10-0

Strasburg #475, 4-8-0 (my favorite Strasburg engine).

Strasburg #31, 0-6-0 (second favorite at Strasburg).

Strasburg/BEDT Thomas, 0-6-0

Several of the Mount Washington Cog Railway steamers, which ones I don't remember but the sad likelihood is they are all out of service.

Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern #425, 4-6-2

Steam into History #17, 4-4-0

Edison #1, 4-4-0

Main Line:

Norfolk & Western #611, 4-8-4

Nickel Plate #765, 2-8-4

Southern Pacific #4449, 4-8-4 (my favorite mainline engine - I expect many more trips behind it in the future.)

The only one I have ridden behind is the NKP #765 in 2016, during the Steam in the Valley at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Someday I would like to do more, but not sure when that will happen.

Don't recall all the engine numbers and type.

Steamtown CP??

Strasburg ??

Arcade and Attica

Cass

Durango and Silverton

Pete

Rode the NYC from Haarlem on hudson first week in August to Syracuse NY { yes right down Salina street] then changed to milk train with steam helper to Ogdensberg NY. 1941 thru 1948 was only 2 yrs old in 1941 but remember the rides  to  vacation in Waddington and help with crops harvest on a horse powered farm in Lisbon NY. Best memories ever,includes train slowing down to pickup water on the fly,whole train shook but never stopped. Then returned 2 weeks later

My first steam ride on main line steam was in May 1964 when the CB&Q celebrated the 100 anniversary of suburban service between Chicago and Aurora. The highlight of the trip was the class O5A 4-8-4 painted in GOLD, RIP!

Other steam throughout the years was a main line execution behind GTW pacific 5629. Several trips to North Freedom Wisc. on several different engines. A family trip to Wash where we caught a ride on the Northwest Railroad Museum 2-6-2, Jamestown Ca on the Sierra RR #28 a 2-8-0, and a couple other museums out west.

Several trips down to Felton Ca on the Roaring Camp and Big Trees. Most recently, I was engineer for the day hauling the Dixiana, a Shay, up and down the mountain. Being behind the throttle and pulling the whistle cord was one of the biggest thrills I have had. 

Ray

I was a car host on the Joliet Rocket this summer, and I got to ride 3 of the 4 excursions, plus two deadhead moves with no passengers, one in a thunderstorm at night.

Since I was bon in 1942, as a family member, I rode behind steam on the PRR and Central RR of New Jersey. However, limiting to "riding behind steam on main line excursions", here is what my memory comes up with:

1) PRR K4sa #612, on a "fairwell to steam" out of South Amboy, NJ (1957?).

2) Reading RR  Iron Horse Rambles, behind T-1 #2124 (1959?).

3) Southern Rwy, #4501

4) CB&Q O5b, #5632.

5) Grand Trunk Western #4070.

6) Clinchfield RR 4-6-0 #1 (without diesel help)

7) Southern Rwy #610 (former T&P 2-10-4).

8) N&W #611 and also #1218.

9) UP #8444/844 and also #3985.

And of course, AFT 4449/SP 4449 since 1975.

Tourist lines such as the Georgetown Loop, Virginia and Truckee, Strasburg, Boothbay Maine, etc, etc.

But, the all-time best was a trip with my grandmother on the Long Island Railroad around 1950 to visit an uncle in Northport. We made the famous change at Jamaica for steam. Being 4 years old at the time, my engine ID skills weren't developed yet, but I would guess it was a G5 4-6-0.

Best part about the trip was an engine breakdown which led to us being stuck on the platform for hours with nothing to do but watch a parade of trains, all pulled by steam, go by all afternoon!!! My grandmother was worried that we would never make it home, but I didn't care and hoped the day would never end! 

That turned out to be my one and only trip behind regular service mainline steam.

Jim

CB&Q 4-8-4 5632

W. F Carty 0-4-0T  29 at National Railroad Museum

C&NW 4-6-0 1385, Warren & Ouachita Valley 4-6-0 1 at Mid Continent

J.Neils/St. Regis Shay 5, Commonwealth Edison 0-6-0 5, Tuskeegee 2-6-2 101, Frisco 2-10-0 1630 at IRM

PRR 4-4-2 7002 at Strasburg

Cass Heisler 6, Shay 5 at Cass

D&S 2-8-2 482 at Durango & Sliverton

"Canadian Pacific" (ex U.S. Army) 0-6-0 2023 at Heritage Village, Calgary

New Mexico Lumber Co./Oregon Lumber  Shay 7 at Hesston

DB meter gauge 2-8-2T on the Molli Train in Germany

Rusty

I've done several of the usual suspects: SP 4449, Milwaukee 261 (several times), and CP 2816 "Empress" 4-6-4 (double-headed with Milwaukee 261).

In the early eighties I had a short ride behind NP 328, a 4-6-0, and just in September this year rode behind (literally - the train was pulled backwards on the outgoing leg, and I was in the last seat of the observation car so only a few feet from the engine) D&NE 28, a former Missabe 2-8-0.

Most unusual was a 2' gauge 0-4-0 back in the 1990's. It was built in an occupied Polish factory by the Germans during WW2. A fellow in Northfield MN operated it with some home-made passenger cars on a loop of track in his (rather large) backyard, as part of an annual family party / reunion. Sort of like a really big 'garden layout'.

When we visited the uncles in Thornwood and Pleasantville we rode the New York Central's Brewster Local.  The electric motor got changed out for, as I recall, a beat to crap Pacific in North White Plains.  Dad used to hop us off the train to observe the change over because he knew even then I was train crazy.

We also took a train I believe was called "The Fisherman's Special" from Penn Station to Montauk.  I remember we had to get up really, really early and that at some point the locomotive was changed from electric to steam.  It was a really great trip because most of the time that train was smokin'.

These memories, though "ancient", are still extremely vivid.

Pete

Baltimore and Ohio P-7c from Jersey City to Baltimore and PRR K4s from Baltimore to Pittsburgh.

Gotta go way back:

Reading 2102

N&W 611

S&A 750

Southern 4501

R&N 425

PRR 7002

Steamtown 90

BR&W 60

CP (Steamtown) 2317

MILW S-2

The Allaire State Park Shay (can't remember the number)

Couple of British tank engines (in the UK) - don't remember numbers

Also saw the Flying Scotsman when it toured the US in the 1970's as well as the Reading T-1 made up in Freedom Train colors.

Interesting to try and remember.  I rode behind most steam locomotives as a younger child.  As far as I can remember:

Former PRR D16sb on the Strasburg before it went across the street.

Steamtown's Royal Hudson when Steamtown was in Bellows Falls, VT.

Steamtown's Baldwin 0-6-0 in Scranton

Various K36's on the Durango and Silverton

The cab of a Cumbress and Toltec K37

Black River and Western #60

Cass Scenic (don't remember which one WM #5 or 6 maybe?)

Does Disneyland and Disney World Count?

Tennessee Valley 4501

I think that's all of them.  Never been on a steam hauled train other than excursion lines.

Starting at the earliest:
EDAVILLE; #s 3,4, 7,8   (multiple visits 1966-76)
Steamtown (Bellows Falls,1971); #1293
Valley RR (Essex, Conn., 1976)  #97
Chessie Steam Special #2101  (2 trips, 1978)
East Broad Top, (1973, 1979, 2004,2008) #12, #14, #15
Strasburg; (1985, 2008) #90, #7002, #7312
Allegany Central (1989) #1238
CASS; (1992), SHAYS #3, #6
NKP#765 (2 trips) 2013, Lewistown,PA.- Gallitzin,PA.   2015, Scranton,PA.- Delaware Water Gap, PA.
N&W #611 (3 trips)  2015, Manassas,VA. - Front Royal,VA.  2016, Roaoke -Walton, Roanoke-Lynchburg
Western MD. Scenic #734, 2015
Everett RR. #11, 2015

Walkersville Southern, 2012-16, Flagg Coal #75, Lehigh Valley Coal #126

I knew what you meant, but if you had used the same words in a different order it might sound better.  Which trains pulled by steam engines have you been on?  Got a tad transposed perhaps.  Anyway, the only train I've been on pulled by a steam engine was the trip to the Camp 5 logging camp by Crivitz, Wi. when we used to vacation up there.  That was pretty neat.  And the mini at the Milwaukee Zoo.  Not much of a resume, but I'm not dead yet.  Cheers.

Hm, K36's on D&SNGRR June 2017 , whatever the Georgetown Loop in Colorado runs,  Dec 2016, and whatever was used on the New Hope & Ivyland trains, also the WK&S in Pa in the 80's.

Let me see if I can do this in order as it happened:

WK&S 65

Baldwin (Steamtown) 26

Canadian Pacific (Steamtown) 2317

Disney's Walter E Disney 1

Disney's Roy Disney 3

Reading and Northern 425

Strasburg 90

Strasburg 475

Strasburg 89

Steam into History 17

Vicose 6

Nickel Plate Road 765

Lehigh Valley Coal Company 126

Jeddo Coal Company 85

645 posted:

 

I also find it interesting nobody here has mentioned Frisco 2-10-0 1630 at the Illinois Railway Museum. IRM also has J Neils #5 which is a Shay which used to operate in years past and on which an operational restoration is being completed. IRM also ran Tuskegee 2-6-2 101 years ago.

I did.  About 10 posts up.  Plus the Shay, the 101 and the long-idled Commonwealth Edison 0-6-0 #5:

Rusty

sncf231e posted:

A French SNCF 141R American build Mikado in 1971, when there was still some steam in France,  in a train from Calais to Paris:

Regards

Fred

Like Fred, I have distant memories of the last European working steam. In my case it was my local  branch-line 0-4-4T in the early 60s. The train was usually just one car with compartments only, no open car or corridors, and I found out not long ago that the very car was preserved in a museum. Must get there sometime for a look and maybe find the window I had to p*** out of when I was three years old......

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I was able to ride in the cab of Strasburg #475. I had given a framed photo of one of the engineers leaning out of the cab widow. The ride, about a year later, was a surprise "thank you".

Back in the early 80's, I rode on one of the steam trips at Strasburg, but have no recollection of which engine pulled that trip. I also rode on a few Steamtown excursions when it first moved from Vermont. The engine was done up in (I believe) CP colors, but I don't think it was a CP engine. The most memorable trip was on a July 4th weekend when two teens were where they weren't supposed to be and were hit and killed on the way out to Moscow.

Finally, back in the late 80's, I rode behind the Royal Hudson (CPR 2860) from Squamish to Vancouver. That was one beautiful engine. I'd love to get a model of that one some day.

In revenue service:  ATSF 4-8-4 (1952)

In excursion service:  ATSF 4-8-4, MILW 4-8-4

In tourist service:  2 Classes of ex-DRGW 2-8-2's, two Maine 2-footers

We went to Tennessee to ride the inaugural trip behind ex-SOU steam engine that was freshly rebuilt, but last-minute decision that the engine was not ready for service caused us to ride behind NS Southern Heritage GE diesel.