I just turned on the "dream machine" and visualised a triple header with NKP 763, NKP 765 and Pere Marquette 1225. Who'd buy a ticket to ride this combination??? :teeth: :teeth: We'd need to round up about 50 passenger cars so they could get some work.
T&NO P-13 Pacific in Houston on June 5, 1954 having just brought train # 26, the Rabbit, into town from Shreveport, Louisiana on what is still called the Rabbit Line. This train was discontinued two months later on August 9. These were the largest Pacifics on the Southern Pacific system and the last of that wheel arrangement to be bought by them.
Tennessee Copper Co. 102, an 0-6-0, pulling copper oar cars in Ducktown, Tennessee, in September of 1939. Marion Wolcott photo, Library of Congress collection.
I don't know who took this photo but I have had this on my PC for a while. This is a locomotive that had more tractive effort than the Big Boy. 225 still sits in a park at Proctor, MN. Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Yellowstone #225
How's this? Colorado & Southern #9 [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA86BkN1suQ"]YouTube - Georgetown Loop Railroad #001[/ame]
Here is another video of C&S #9 for your enjoyment! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ypEToetz8"]YouTube - Georgetown Loop Railroad #003[/ame] Colorado & Southern #9
From 2006- SP GS4 4449 running the Holiday Express on the Oregon Electric in Portland. Head-on shot of SP&S 700, which ran the week before. 4449's engineer Doyle McCormack, chatting with some of the satisfied customers
Another Jack Delano photo. I just love these interior shots with the lighting effect on the smoke and dust. Really sets the mood.
Indiana Harbor Belt 0-8-0 near stock yards at Calumet City, Illinois, January 1943. Jack Delano photo. Library of Congress collection.
Washing an L2-b Mikado in Bensenville, Ill, April, 1943. Jack Delano photo, Library of Congress collection.
Illinois Central ... Paducah Built 2600 series Mountain ...Built 1942-43 70-inch driver diameter , 28x30-inch cylinders and sustained a boiler pressure of 275 pounds resulting in 78,584 pounds of tractive effort. They were the last steam locomotives built new for service on the Illinois Central.
