What is the status of the traveling Gramlings? The website is on hiatus and the last Facebook entries were in 2022.

Does anyone else offer traveling switchers?

~Wesley

I'm hoping they are just regrouping after the Pandemonium; they are exceptionally down-to-earth guys.

Always appreciated their self-effacing quip about "if two idiots in a cornfield can do it"..

Sammy may have something in another year or so.

Viscose #6 used to make occasional appearances in the northeast US. I believe it calls NY home? According to the following link, Scott Symans purchased it in 2004 and completed a three-year restoration. (Um, but that was 20 years ago!)

https://steamgiants.com/survivors/operating/symans-american-viscose-6/

This link even has contact info:
http://www.trainweb.org/wnyrhs/viscose.htm

Thanks Dave. It's true that we're optimistic that sometime next year we'll be able to offer Audrey's services, but it's too soon to release any specific details.

Please note that we are neither imitating nor competing with our friends and allies the Gramlings. So far as I know, within the last two years there has been one death in their family, and now there is a serious illness, so they aren't taking anywhere near the number of bookings that they used to. I heard that they were going to bring an engine down to Oklahoma City, but I have no details on that, either. (Any RyPNers who can attend a Gramling visit to OKC, please look for a guy wearing a #6 hat, and introduce yourself to me.)

85 has been running some. I saw it at the Walkersville southern last year and I think it’s supposed to be at Kentucky Steam next weekend. I haven’t heard of any of the others running.

I believe Viscose 6 is down for it's 1472.

Scott just purchased Brooklyn Navy Yard #12 from the Rochester and Genessee Valley Railroad Museum, so I anticipate that we may see more steam in the northeast in the next five years.

Saw Flagg #75 at Train Fest in Dennison in 2004. Great bunch.

Flagg Coal #75 is scheduled to make an appearance at the Tractors & Trains Event at Railroading Heritage of Midwest America (RRHMA) in Silvis in a few weeks:
https://rrhma.com/tractors-trains-2024/

thats actually a error, it will be Jeddo Coal 85 at that event. As Sammy spoke of earlier there have been some changes in the last couple years,my sister passed very suddenly a couple years back and was my go to IT person ,as i have 0 skills with computers (some say i have zero skills in other areas too....) and my Dad John had a stroke awhile back and that has taken the fire out of our firebox so to speak....we are still travelling but not as much as before as ive been busy working on several projects for people in the shop. Flagg 75 is in for its 1472 and we are doing work that we couldnt do or didnt know how to do when we restored it the first time. There is an opportunity coming that has added so urgency to the matter as i hope to have Flagg 75 Lehigh Coal 126 and Jeddo 85 all together at once for an event for Dad. But we are still travelling and are under steam at Kentucky Steam Heritage this coming weekend and providing the steam for their annual whistle blow. As always come see us and if one has any questions all you need to do is call....ill usually answer or get back.....sometimes not very fast as i should.....but it is harvest time here on the farm and grain trains are starting to run heavy on the shortline where i work as the extra board. i appreciate your thoughts and if there is something we can do to help you out dont hesitate to call. Barney Gramling

Barney,

I'm sure if you ask nicely - there are plenty of people in the railfan/railroading world who would absolutely love to help you with the website/Facebook page, etc, for little or no cost to you. At the very least, that could get taken off of your plate.

Had the same issue with traveling Gramlings.

The Gramlings are some of the nicest people out there. Barney would probably give you the shirt off his back, just be prepared that this shirt might be pink. I think that if our culture was as grounded in common sense as Barney, we’d probably have less political strife.

Back on topic, I hope to see these locomotives up and running again soon.

After Tractors & Trains - will any of the Gramlings engines appear for the rest of 2024? Just wanting to keep track in case they will be close by.