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 Post subject: Re: Railroad Still Operating with the Most Original Fabric
PostPosted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 9:03 pm 

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Adirondack Scenic’s New York Central Adirondack Division Main Track all the way to Lake Placid. Minus the removal of the section to Malone, and I believe the other small railroads that met with the line. As I’ve been reading in Adirondack division book and looking at old ma0s. The route is virtually unchanged OOS north of Big Moose, and not doing 50-60 Mph like back in the day

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 Post subject: Re: Railroad Still Operating with the Most Original Fabric
PostPosted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 3:56 pm 

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Examples of the Stewartstown.

http://railfanning.kapuscinski.net/2019 ... july-2019/

It's a small, but great, operation.

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 Post subject: Re: Railroad Still Operating with the Most Original Fabric
PostPosted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:33 am 
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I would add the Nevada State Railroad Museum at Boulder City to the list… We operate on the original UP branch line built in 1929/30… rails (90 lb relay… mostly from 1916) and ties (mostly… many 1930, 1931 date nails have been found… ) We have relayed one leg of the wye… There is a half mile of 112 lb associated with our new bridge over I-11… otherwise the track is the track remaining at abandonment in 1985… We have the 1936 Davenport Gas/mechanical that the Government Railroad used on the line down to the dam. We have acquired (but are having some trouble moving) an original 6-Companies dump car from the dam construction…

Our other equipment includes a 1949 UP diner used through Las Vegas, a UP “C-3 aka C-57 consolidation”… not used here but the class used here… UP 844 (the yellow GP-30, used through Las Vegas) The tourist train is Harriman Common Standard equipment is some UP, some SP… We have a UP CA-9 caboose used through Las Vegas… Even our Wagner Palace private car, Ellsmere visited Las Vegas in 1907…. Ot889her significant artifacts include an 1939 EMC NW-2, originally EMC 889, later UP 1000, the first conventional freight diesel on the UP… As well as two Amtrak locomotives, an SDP 40 and F 40, both of which were used in Nevada… and two GEs used at the Nevada Test site for the Mars rocket…

Original track used by equipment of local significance…

But, Ely is the best at original fabric...

Randy

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 Post subject: Re: Railroad Still Operating with the Most Original Fabric
PostPosted: Fri Jul 19, 2019 9:32 pm 

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Fraser Valley Heritage Railway operates two origional BCER Interurban cars on origional trackage from two replica stations in Surrey BC. Both cars that run were built for BCER in 1911 and 1912. They also have two more that are in the restoration process.

https://fvhrs.org/


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 Post subject: Re: Railroad Still Operating with the Most Original Fabric
PostPosted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 2:13 am 

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xboxtravis7992 wrote:

The two main excursion cars in the NN fleet are ex-commuter cars from another railroad (Illinois Central if my memory serves?). The original NN passenger cars are normally stored in the RIP building and are only used for special events.......


To be fair, those IC coaches were only brought in as replacements following the damage to the NN's original wooden fleet when the run-away flatcar hit 93 and its excursion consist of original wooden NN coaches. Prior to that those wood cars were used regularly and probably would still be if not for aforementioned accident and the SEVERE damage caused to those coaches.


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 Post subject: Re: Railroad Still Operating with the Most Original Fabric
PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 11:56 am 

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The Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad in Fish Camp, California is operating daily along the original restored right-of-way of the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Company from 1908.

Unfortunately, all of the equipment from the Madera Sugar Pine has been scrapped and trains are pulled by authentic steam locomotives and cars that came from the Westside Lumber Company in Tuolumne, CA.


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 Post subject: Re: Railroad Still Operating with the Most Original Fabric
PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:51 pm 

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Someone near the beginning of this thread asked about the Cass Scenic Railroad. Back in 1963 when it began, the answer would have been "very original". The answer today is "somewhat original". The 11-mile right-of-way, including two switchbacks, from Cass to the top of Bald Knob (3rd highest mountain in WV) is original except for the approach to the mountain top which has been altered. The track is now well-ballasted as opposed to the lumbering days when little if any ballast was put down on what was considered temporary trackage. They still have two Shay locomotives that toiled on the Cass hill for the prior lumbering company. At first, they still had the original engine shop, depot, and the gigantic lumber mill intact. Over the years fire claimed all three. The shop and depot were rebuilt but only the ruins remain of the mill. They have added a couple of west coast Shays as well as an large Shay that worked a coal mine in Maryland. They have a operational Heisler and an almost-operational Climax that came from other lumbering operations in WV.

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 Post subject: Re: Railroad Still Operating with the Most Original Fabric
PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:46 pm 

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WVNorthern wrote:
Someone near the beginning of this thread asked about the Cass Scenic Railroad....


That was me. Thanks.

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