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Published: 2012-05-27 09:05:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 866; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 12
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Unlike , this one's was shot in High Rez. Saturday, 1 PM. This one was shot a few weeks later, later in the day and the temperature was significantly warmer. It's absolutely amazing what a few degrees on the thermometer will do for the drama put on by a steam locomotive.It's the first run of the day and the engineer has the cylinder cocks open in order to help warm up the cylinders and spray condensed water out of the cylinders. He won't shut the drains until the locomotive crosses the road at my back. Runs departing later in the day will see the cylinder cocks closed only a short distance out of the station.
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Little 15 is out again! How many cars has she got?
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One open car converted from a retired heavyweight coach, one heavyweight coach, one heavyweight coach set up as a dining car, one heavy duty 6-axle flatcar (Ex DODX tank transporter car) equipped with side rails and used as an open car. Also a few misc. freight cars like boxcars, mill gondolas and even a hopper car and a pair of old UP cabooses. Mostly it's just the passenger cars though.
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Ah, interesting consist.
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Standard consist for most routine runs is just 2 cars. The coach converted to an open car followed by the enclosed coach.
At Milburn, there is a passing siding where they cut the locomotive off and run it around the train. At the station, they repeat the process. CC&C 15 was built as a logging locomotive. As such, the valve gear is set up to give this loco pretty much the same performance when running tender first as when running with the boiler leading.
Few logging railroad operators could afford to purpose build a wye track or a turning loop track at the far end of each branch. Sometimes it was simply the terrain that limited such things. Passing sidings are cheap, easy and generally resistant to being eliminated by all but the steepest of terrain and narrowest of locations.
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Passing sidings interest me. They give a chance for the engine to pull forwards and back. I don't know why, but I like tender-first for some reason.
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Probably because it isn't standard. Most operators just turn their locomotives around at the ends of their runs. When that isn't readily available, then they use the basic passing siding. If a passing siding isn't available at the far end of the run, then they start getting creative.
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Most places I know of just run in reverse with a Westinghouse trumpet on the end.
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Great image there, like the low angle, the highlights, the steam. It seems I only visit this one in the Fall, when things are not so green. Well done.
Rich T.
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I have to go check this place out before the summer is over.
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I highly recommend the 5 o'clock Saturday train. It's roughly 50% further and the trip along the river is worth it.
Also, the Mt Rainier Scenic up in Elbe is also well worth the trip.
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I took the morning departure, 8 something, on Sunday up to Seattle. Beautiful ride.
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I once rode as far as Tacoma with my bike in the baggage car in order to ride across town to retrieve my pickup truck. I did enjoy it. I would love to take a much longer ride. For that matter, I would love to ride the Coast Starlight all the way to Sou Cal and back. I would also like to take the Empire Builder to Chicago and back. Sucks not having more than pocket change for spare money most of the time.
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lol I just realized I was commenting on the wrong photo. I took the Cascades train to Seattle. I've done the Mt Rainier Railroad twice and the two times seemed like a totally different trip. My biggest worry going to Mt Rainier is ending up with a geared loco. I'm burnt out on heislers and shays.
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The geared locos are not routine power. They usually run Alco #17, or Baldwin #70. Both are conventional 2-8-2s. Unfortuneately, MRSR.com doesn't list what locomotive they'll be using on any particular train.
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Yea. I think I even asked one time and got no response.
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Chehalis-Centrailia Railroad. [link] That particular locomotive starred in a Medi-Flu commercial back during the 1991-92 flu season.
If this is a cold, (Lionel train chugging around a living room trainyard) then this is the flu: just the smokebox storming out of a steam-shrouded tunnel. The only thing recognizable was the bright red number plate up front.
It came to light in an aptly named article "The Medi-Flu 15" in Railfan & Railroad's Aug 1992 issue.
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