Eckley Excursion 10 20 1969

superheater · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:54 pm **Posts:** 2605

Just over 55 years ago.

PaulWWoodring · **Posted:** Fri Oct 25, 2024 10:03 am

Not to seem clueless, but where is Eckley and what engine was this? I consider myself to be a major steam fan over more than the last 50 years and I have no idea.

Jeremy Betz · **Joined:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:23 am **Posts:** 2

Eckley's Miners' Village is located near Hazleton, PA.

http://eckleyminersvillage.com/

Previously discussed history on the Q&E
http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7057&start=0

wesp · **Posted:** Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:29 am

What is the locomotive in the photo?

~Wesley

NJDixon · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:36 pm **Posts:** 361

wesp wrote:

What is the locomotive in the photo?

~Wesley

Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 #4, now owned by Durbin & Greenbrier Valley

EDM · **Posted:** Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:27 pm

That engine was owned by Quakertown and Eastern at the time, which ran excursions with it.

superheater · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:54 pm **Posts:** 2605

You know of all the questions that could be asked about this story; I thought the one that might be asked was "please tell me that a 1000 people didn't take a train ride which sould be family friendly to a stripping"

Eckley is an interesting place. It was used as the backdrop for much of the movie The Mollie McGuires; Jim Thorpe was also used-ironically the "Mollies" were incarcerated in the old jail there and the railroad equipment I believe was from the Narrow Gauge "Carroll Park and Western" near Bloomsburg.

There's a faux "breaker" in Eckley, it was never a working asset-just a movie prop; but as it fell into disrepair-there were pleas to the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission to stabilize and rehabilitate it-to which the PHMC rightly rejected as not being an authentic historic object.

psa188 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 27, 2024 12:20 pm

PaulWWoodring wrote:

Not to seem clueless, but where is Eckley and what engine was this? I consider myself to be a major steam fan over more than the last 50 years and I have no idea.

Don't feel bad. I thought this was about SP at Eckley Pier, California, USA:
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/749857/

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Sun Oct 27, 2024 5:51 pm

superheater wrote:

You know of all the questions that could be asked about this story; I thought the one that might be asked was "please tell me that a 1000 people didn't take a train ride which sould be family friendly to a stripping"

Eckley is an interesting place. It was used as the backdrop for much of the movie The Mollie McGuires; Jim Thorpe was also used-ironically the "Mollies" were incarcerated in the old jail there and the railroad equipment I believe was from the Narrow Gauge "Carroll Park and Western" near Bloomsburg.

There's a faux "breaker" in Eckley, it was never a working asset-just a movie prop; but as it fell into disrepair-there were pleas to the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission to stabilize and rehabilitate it-to which the PHMC rightly rejected as not being an authentic historic object.

Movie props are rarely built to last. I am sure this was a factor also, maintenance of the structure.