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Bill Brunner told me about the Spring 1999 meet where many of these pictures were taken or I wouldn't have known
about it. He brought his engine out to stretch its legs. There were
lots of other live steam engines running as well.
This is Bill
with his engine in the steamup bay. His boxcar is really a rolling
toolbox.
Steamers ranged widely in size. This little 0-4-0
was one of the smallest running on the 7 1/2" gauge track.
This Northern one of the larger engines
running.
A coal fired Northern
was on the point of the excursion train that was giving rides to
club members, their families, and visitors.
The ATSF Northern was
helping on the excursion train. This engine is oil fired.
This model of UP 3100 is a club owned
engine that has recently gone through a rebuild and is now running
fine. After a few more checkouts, it will be used and a training
engine to qualify club members to operate live steam. The engine is
fully operational as of this writing as has been recently used to
haul the public on Sundays. The engine is fired with Diesel
fuel.
This
0-4-4T was the "largest" engine there. I estimate that it is a
model of a 2' gauge engine.
Not all the engines were large. This was
the smallest live steamer that I saw there. It is a live steam
model of the Stephenson Rocket. I was told that it was manufactured
in England as sold in train sets.
This "Smog Belt"
2-8-0 was running almost constantly. The engine is "naturally"
weathered with grease, dirt, and cinders but it ran just fine.
This is another model of a 1830's
prototype. I couldn't find the owner of this engine to ask
questions, but it looked interesting.
Somebody did an
excellent job on this 1" scale 1860's vintage American type.
I didn't see this
1" scale Atlantic running, but it looks to be a fine model.
This nearly complete
10 wheeler was standing for display. Whoever is building it is
doing a fine job.
This Mogul often runs at
LALS, it was on a steam up track this day.
The English prototype
10 Wheeler, named King George V, is one of the strongest pulling
locos I've seen yet. It is a 4 cylinder loco (two outside and two
inside) and pulls very smoothly. It is also heavily weighted. It
can pull 5 of the ride on cars with 5 people each quite easily.
© 1999-2000 George Schreyer
Created May 29, 1999
Last Updated Dec 31, 2000