Alco 48 class loco pics

LOL:D,your not wrong mate!!,I have missed the news a bit over the last week but i'm sure someone Iknow would've seen it and let me know!Where did you get the pics from,or cant I ask:angel:,if it wasn't track or equipment failure,then someone has a big "Please explain",mind you these things do happen:eek:

I'm assuming it's this one.... Rail services to the east should resume tomorrow - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Regards,
Tote

Bloody hell what a mess and yes 3 Gees they kept that one "TOP" secret.I wonder why.

In another thread on here someone mentioned Union Pacific's " Big Boys" steamer .I seached and found this which I have attached. Man that's one big mother.
John.

Hi John, go to YouTube and search for video on both the Big Boy ( none running at present ) and the Challenger one of which is in irregular use.

These two locomotives are incredible to watch.

BTW John, if you like the Big Boy, search for video of Southern Pacific’s Cab Forwards, nearly as big as the Big Boy but as the name implies, the cab is at the front of the locomotive.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ErZ5SgkVw"]YouTube - Amazing American Cab Forward Steam Loco[/ame]

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Hi John, go to YouTube and search for video on both the Big Boy ( none running at present ) and the Challenger one of which is in irregular use.

These two locomotives are incredible to watch.

BTW John, if you like the Big Boy, search for video of Southern Pacific’s Cab Forwards, nearly as big as the Big Boy but as the name implies, the cab is at the front of the locomotive.

YouTube - Amazing American Cab Forward Steam Loco

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I am planning to go to the Miller-Offenhauser Society historic race meeting in Milwaukee next July. I intend to take the Amtrak train over the Donner Pass from Emeryville (between Berkeley and Oakland) to Reno. Pity the train won't be hauled by a big steamer.

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I am planning to go to the Miller-Offenhauser Society historic race meeting in Milwaukee next July. I intend to take the Amtrak train over the Donner Pass from Emeryville (between Berkeley and Oakland) to Reno. Pity the train won't be hauled by a big steamer.

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I’m jealous

4294 Taken at the Sacramento railway museum in 2005

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...u/HPIM0843.jpg


Regards,
Tote

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I’m jealous

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Exchange rate is good, air fares are cheap, so is the train. Stay at Harrah's mid week for $68 a night and see their car museum then rent a car and head off to Milwaukee via Bill Smith's museum in Lincoln, and Sprint Car Hall of Fame near Des Moines. I will be visiting Bob Bendsten in Minneapolis for a day or two. Good beer in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

I am going to stay a couple of days with Ken Walton near Kansas City. Ken is a noted Offy collector, restorer, historian and author. He currently is working on two late turbo Offys, a 27 degree and a 19 degree D-G-S whch has never run, crankcase not yet finish machined. The D-G-S is supposed to go into a street rod naturally aspirated. Ken has a business called Roadster Works that custom builds exotic street rods.

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I am planning to go to the Miller-Offenhauser Society historic race meeting in Milwaukee next July. I intend to take the Amtrak train over the Donner Pass from Emeryville (between Berkeley and Oakland) to Reno. Pity the train won't be hauled by a big steamer.

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Half your luck.I,too,am green with envy.

Not fair ,prickly pear:D,maybe I should ditch the I-mac idea for a plane ticket??:eek:.....Union Pacific made a movie about the BigBoys at the end of the steam era ,dealing with the reluctance of older Engineers to move to dieselisation,it's a bit corny today but was a popular movie then,obviously a huge change in railroading culture!
Even in HO scale (1-87th) a Bigboy,Challenger or Cabforward look big!,and cost well over a grand for a good one:eek:
cheers gregg:)