Looking good for 96 years old
Nov 23, 2020 00:23:37 #
Strasburg Railroad # 90 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1924. It has been owned by the Strasburg Railroad since April 1967. A 2-10-0 Decapod, # 90 is Strasburg Railroad's most powerful locomotive. Originally owned by The Great Western Railway of Colorado where it was their largest and most powerful locomotive.
Nov 23, 2020 01:58:51 #
rmorrison1116 wrote:
Strasburg Railroad # 90 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1924. It has been owned by the Strasburg Railroad since April 1967. A 2-10-0 Decapod, # 90 is Strasburg Railroad's most powerful locomotive. Originally owned by The Great Western Railway of Colorado where it was their largest and most powerful locomotive.
I belong to the Southern California Railway Museum in the operations department. Our working steamer is a 1922 Baldwin 2-6-2 "Prairie" type. Though the museum does own older locomotives they are hoping to run sometime in the future. They have both of Ward Kimball's former backyard (big backyard) locos. An 1881 2-6-0 and a 1907 0-4-2T - both built by Baldwin. Kimball's family ran them in San Gabriel until they were given to the museum. The museum steam crew maintains both of them and restores/replaces parts to keep both in first rate condition. They hope to one day have enough 3' gauge track to fire them up and run them again.
Nov 23, 2020 07:22:13 #
rmorrison1116 wrote:
Strasburg Railroad # 90 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1924. It has been owned by the Strasburg Railroad since April 1967. A 2-10-0 Decapod, # 90 is Strasburg Railroad's most powerful locomotive. Originally owned by The Great Western Railway of Colorado where it was their largest and most powerful locomotive.
These are beautiful captures. These may lend to the effect if this was in Sepia or Monochrome.
Nov 23, 2020 08:14:34 #
Beautiful captures and renderings of a stately steam engine. Please stay well and keep on sharing.
Nov 23, 2020 12:52:59 #
Nov 24, 2020 05:45:00 #
rmorrison1116 wrote:
Strasburg Railroad # 90 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1924. It has been owned by the Strasburg Railroad since April 1967. A 2-10-0 Decapod, # 90 is Strasburg Railroad's most powerful locomotive. Originally owned by The Great Western Railway of Colorado where it was their largest and most powerful locomotive.
Nice shots
Nov 24, 2020 06:55:25 #
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Nov 24, 2020 08:28:16 #
Nothing better than photos of old steam enginess (unless you can get to the real thing of course). These are nice photos and seem to capture a different era. Well done.
Nov 24, 2020 11:19:29 #
Nov 24, 2020 17:22:27 #
Very nicely done! From the fact that there is an Engineer aboard, I'm assuming that locomotive is functional.
Nov 24, 2020 17:40:44 #
Nov 24, 2020 18:35:45 #
David in Dallas wrote:
Very nicely done! From the fact that there is an Engineer aboard, I'm assuming that locomotive is functional.
Yes it is functional, it is used on average 5 days a week with the exception of January thru March. As I said, it is the largest of their 11 functional locomotives, 6 of which are steam locomotives.
Nov 25, 2020 00:58:23 #
erickter
Loc: Dallas,TX
Looks real good. I am building my 5th HO model railroad in the past 50 years. Can't wait to run some analog and dcc steam engines.
Nov 30, 2020 14:21:54 #
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