08-04-2011, 08:49 AM
Steam locomotives have always puzzled me. I've been around a few working ones, Such as those at Strasburg and Steam town, but i wonder if it is just my overall lack of exposure to these locomotives that prevents me from feeling it.
I remember I was standing on the end-platform across from the smoke box on an eastbound run on the Strasburg Railroad a couple years ago. I could feel it pulsing and beating and the heat coming from it, but i think that was the closes I got to feeling it. I suppose the larger steam locomotives are prohibitively expensive to operate these days (at least in the Northeast where i can see them).
Gonna have to find other places to see and understand them.
I remember I was standing on the end-platform across from the smoke box on an eastbound run on the Strasburg Railroad a couple years ago. I could feel it pulsing and beating and the heat coming from it, but i think that was the closes I got to feeling it. I suppose the larger steam locomotives are prohibitively expensive to operate these days (at least in the Northeast where i can see them).
Gonna have to find other places to see and understand them.
Modeling New Jersey Under the Wire 1978-1979.
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