Tweetsie #190 2-8-2 near Blowing Rock, NC
Southern #604 2-8-0 at Spencer, NC
Norfolk & Western #611 J-Class 4-8-4 from Greensboro, NC to Roanoke, VA, and back again
Too many to catalogue - maybe 45-50, all totaled. Will identify locomotives from the late '50's-1960's.
CB&Q 4-6-4 #3001, 4-8-4 #5632, 2-8-2 #4960 (which was pulled from regular service at Herrin Jct, IL, the week prior/12-58), 2-10-4 #6315. GTW 4-8-4's 6322, 6323, 4-6-2 #5629, 2-8-2 #4070. DM&IR 2-8-8-4 #224, 2-10-2 #514. LS&I 2-8-0 (don't recall the #), Reading 4-8-4 #2102 (world's shortest excursion - pulled train from Dearborn St Station and experienced mechanical trouble at 26th street - trip annulled). Canadian National 4-8-4's 6167, 6218. NdeM 4-6-2 on regularly scheduled passenger train, Toluca, Mex (1962). UP #844.
In no special order:
Ohio Railroad Museum/N&W #578 4-6-2
ORM/Marble Creek Quarry #1 0-4-0
Strasburg/PRR #7002 4-4-0
NKP #759 2-8-4
NKP #765 2-8-4
Chessie Steam Special/Reading #2101 4-8-4
N&W #611 4-8-4
N&W #1218 2-6-6-4
Strasburg/N&W #475 4-8-0
Strasburg/Great Western #90 2-10-0
Strasburg/BEDT (#15) #1 “Thomas” 0-6-0
Wilmington & Western #58 0-6-0
East Broad Top #15 2-8-2
East Broad Top #14 2-8-2
East Broad Top #12 2-8-2
B&O #25 “William Mason” 4-4-0 (seen, not ridden behind)
B&O #13 “Lafayette” 4-2-0 (seen, not ridden behind)
St Elizabeth Hospital #4 0-4-0
Cass Scenic Shay #11
Cass Scenic Shay #5
Cass Scenic Shay #6
Cass Scenic Heisler #6
Abilene & Smoky Valley/Santa Fe #3415 4-6-2
Walt Disney World #4 “Roy O. Disney” 4-6-0
Walt Disney World #2 “Lilly Belle” 2-6-0
Reading and Northern #425 4-6-2
New Jersey Central #113 0-6-0
Lehigh valley Coal #126 0-6-0 (Walkerville and Southern)
Hocking Valley/LSI #33 2-8-0
Western Maryland Scenic #734 2-8-0 (LSI 34)
Ohio Central/CN #1551 4-6-0
Mt Rainer Scenic Heisler #91
Everett Railroad #11 2-6-0
Allegheny Central #1238 4-6-2
Cuyahoga Valley Scenic #4070 2-8-2
TVRM/Southern #630 2-8-0
Two Australian 2-8-2's near Perth. 1982. Need to find which ones)
Bob
NW 611
UP 3985
Frisco 1522
These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head (I have cab rides in the ones in bold). I've seen countless others in operation over the years, as well.
- ET&WNC # 12
- SRR 630 (former ET&WNC 207) - my first cab ride, at age 11
- North American Rayon 0-6-0 fireless (possibly the last commercial steam engine running in the US)
- WP&Y 190
- WP&Y 70
- SRR 4501
- N&W 1218
- N&W 611
- Strasburg 90
- Strasburg 475
- Strasburg 89
- D&RGW 488
- D&RGW 484
- No. 1 'Anaka' on the LK&P in Maui, HI
- All the steam locos that have run at Mt Rainer between 1998 and now
- All the Dinseyworld locomotives
- UP 844
- SP 4449
- SP&S 700
- Cowlitz, Chehalis, & Cascade Railroad 15 (on numerous occasions)
- 0-4-0T at Agrirama, Tifton, GA
- Various steam-powered park trains (mostly Crown locomotives) around the country
I know there are plenty of others, I'm just drawing a blank on the rest of them right now. I've been chasing down steam since I was a teenager, over 30 years ago...
Been on a few over the years.
But, I'll be on the SP Daylight #4449 this Sunday as the Holiday Express in Portland OR.
Mikado 4501 posted: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.
FYI:
#40 is back in action. I heard the whistle just last week. I live a few miles from the NH&I right-of-way.
J.
I have ridden behind, literally dozens of steam locomotives, but then, I'm pretty old and can recall steam back in the 1950's and earlier. However, my most memorable ride was aboard the GTW #5629 USRA Pacific. I lived in Milwaukee at that time and several of us went to Chicago to see and ride behind the #5629. (We had also ridden behind her when she pulled the Circus train from Baraboo, WI to Milwaukee, twice before this)
Dick Jensen, the owner of the engine, invited several of us up to the cab for parts of the trip from Chicago to Durand, MI because we were a fairly large group of about 10. First bunch went up front in Gary and rode in the cab to Valparaiso. Then it was my buddy's and my turn to ride from Valpo to So. Bend. Only, when we got to So. Bend we got a clear board and went straight through to Battle Creek, MI. About 110 miles, altogether. What ride! The trip was a ferry move to get the engine to Detroit and only had four cars, so there wasn't much of a speed restriction on her.
Have you ever ridden in the cab of a steam engine at 75 and 80 MPH? The cab moved back and forth and up and down so violently that you simply had to hang on to something. The noise was so loud and incessant that you had to holler into the ear of someone, just to be heard. The cinders, dust and steam flew around the cab constantly, getting in your eyes, mouth, ears and hair. It was a hot day and the heat in that cab was relentless. I can tell you: It was the most wonderful, unforgetable experience I have ever had !!! It's really too bad that modern day t rains are limited by modern times these days because any one of you would have appreciated our wonderful trip. I am just sick about what happened to that engine in the 1980's, as it was a perfect example of a lovely, fast and significant USRA engine.
Paul Fischer
SP4449, SPS700, UP844, logging engines at Mt. Rainier, Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad locomotives, and the steamer at Centralia in Washington.
Those are some impressive resumes. You guys are some real, real train nuts. I just wanted to say, because I mentioned rewording the title earlier, that the title it is now makes more sense than what I suggested, and still more than the original. And all three used the same words in a different order. Not important, I just think that's kind of cool. Nice job. You got it right now. Cheers.
