Union Pacific 844 Steam engine to tour later this month - cool video (NGC)

[PeteS]

Nickel Plate Berkshire 765 does many fan trips. Last summer is did a couple in Western New York. The trestle in the pic below was built in 1875 and was on its route. Scheduled for replacement in two years.








Pete

[Two Checks]

765 came to my town in 2012. Stopped and then was pulled back the other way by a Diesel.

[Triple Jim]

765 came to my town in 2012. Stopped and then was pulled back the other way by a Diesel.

That's strange.  I wonder if it had a malfunction.  I rode a steam train once, and it took us to a old station in the middle of nowhere, took a siding to the other end of the cars, hitched back up with the headlight aiming in the now-front car, and pulled us back to the starting point.

[PeteS]

That's strange.  I wonder if it had a malfunction.  I rode a steam train once, and it took us to a old station in the middle of nowhere, took a siding to the other end of the cars, hitched back up with the headlight aiming in the now-front car, and pulled us back to the starting point.

Two possible reasons for this. No way to turn it around or the railroad it was on required an engine on the front. When it was in upstate NY last year it ran from Buffalo to Corning. In Corning there is a wye long enough to allow the whole train be turned. The run was on CSX tracks which limited its speed to 40 MPH, basically idling. Much of the route parallels close to roads. Many some of my favorite MC rides.

Pete

[Demar]

Could have had something wrong with the reverse mechanism.

Years ago I was on a ride at Roaring Camp in the Santa Cruz mountains. We were being pulled by their Heisler and the route up the hill required the loco to bury it's nose into a dead end. Then they thru the track switch and the Heisler would back up a steep grade switch to get up the hill then they thru the track switch back to the main line and the loco would pull forward. The Heisler tried five times but could not back all the way up the hill. We had to walk back downhill to the station. Turns out the timing of the cylinders was off. It was about a 3 hour job to get the timing repaired.

They have to back up the hill because years ago some a$$hole set fire to the wooden trestle and it is too costly to rebuild it.

http://www.roaringcamp.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Camp_and_Big_Trees_Narrow_Gauge_Railroad

[Two Checks]

No way to turn it around.
Once back to Berkeley from St. Peter's (yes it has an apostrophe) it was ferried back to Ft. Wayne.