Railfest 2007 - Altoona, PA

museumops · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:14 am

There are two, the Mack that we have on display and the Aherns Fox that was up untill a year or so ago was in the Harrisburg Pa area. The owner passed away and I lost track of who it was sold to.

mxdata · **Joined:** Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:54 am **Posts:** 609

Photos posted on the internet show large numbers of people at this event! But the operating motive power present appears to be DIESELS! What is going on here? What has become of the conventional wisdom that an operating steam locomotive is necessary to attract a crowd?

co614 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:20 pm

The much more meaningful and interesting question here is how many times bigger would the crowd have been if it were steam vs. diesel????
Ross Rowland

mxdata · **Joined:** Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:54 am **Posts:** 609

Perhaps someday the 1361 will be available to provide a comparison!

MX

zugmann · **Posted:** Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:23 pm

Why either/or?

Imagine both the K4 and Es around the curve? Toss in some NS Fs...

mxdata · **Joined:** Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:54 am **Posts:** 609

I think by that time the Flying Yankee will also be available to re-enact the nationwide tour of the original Burlington Zephyr.

Metman499 · **Joined:** Mon May 09, 2005 8:16 pm **Posts:** 80

To answer a previous poster's query, the flatcar in question is the "Queen Mary".