[Morgana]

You may be cool but you are not Ross Rowland driving a C & O 614 down the tracks.

Oh you have a Lamborghini? I drive a C & O 614 BWAAHAHAHA

RIP Ross Rowland. Thanks for the awesome train memories.

[wjcsux]

The steam locomotives were truly awesome. I remember seeing one of the “Big Boy” locomotives in a museum when I was a kid. Truly amazing piece of machinery.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I never knew about him. Sounds like a great guy!

Most of my steam excursion trains were on western logging railroads pulled by Shay, Heisler and Climax locomotives. I rode the steam train at Pt. Defiance Park in Tacoma, WA. The “Camp 6 Logging Museum” there operated a steam train from 1964 to 2010.

I was in the steam power business from 1973 - 1978 and got to ride in the cab of the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad (YMSPRR) near Yosemite around 1974. That was great fun. The YSMPRR is still operating. The railroad features two historic Shay locomotives, No. 10 (built 1928) and No. 15 (built 1913).

When I worked in China from October 1976 to April 1977, I rode across the country on steam locomotives. These were the real deal, not excursion trains.

[Track9]

Steam train sounds and bagpipes can raise the dead.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I was following links about western logging railroads that I had ridden and, while looking up the old road at Point Defiance in Tacoma, came across the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad. My sister and BIL are visiting us in North Idaho and are headed west to Mt. Rainier on Friday, so I sent her the info about the RR. She just booked a ride on it on Friday! They were already staying a short distance away from the RR.

Thanks for the post tonight! I never would have stumbled on the Mt. Rainier Scenic RR without this post and she wouldn't have known about the MRSRR without it.

[DeplorableTrumpSupporter]

Another great railroader is at the Great Union Station in the Sky... I love trains and I'm helping dad rebuild his garden Railroad. The hurricanes took out about 3/4 of the road including 8 bridges.

My favorite locomotive is the New Haven 2525, a U-Boat...the last locomotive New Haven bought. It's at the Railroad Museum of New England, being restored.