Trivial Pursuit at the Strasburg Rail Road

Trainlawyer · **Posted:** Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:18 pm

For an ever so brief moment as I perused the list,
"T-1? Huh?
"What T-1?
"THEY HAVE A T-1?
"THEY HAVE A T-1!!
"STRASBURG REALLY HAS A T-1!!!"
(Notices Great-Granddaughter's little blue piggy bank with other Brio on the floor)
"Oh..."

GME

Anthony C. DeBellis · **Posted:** Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:21 pm

I may be wrong, but if I am not mistaken T1= Thomas 1. Not an actual T1. :)

Very interesting numbers Kelly. Thank you for posting them. The comparison with some of the locomotives is very interesting

Anthony

Mark Jordan · **Joined:** Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:21 am **Posts:** 490

I'm wondering if the government is really trying to figure out, based on the auto industry, what the mandated efficiency should be for new steam locomotives built after 2015.

I'm sure they will mandate at least 25 miles per ton.

Hmmmm.....a "cash for clunkers" program??

tyrok1 · **Joined:** Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:46 am **Posts:** 166

Trainlawyer wrote:

For an ever so brief moment as I perused the list,
"T-1? Huh?
"What T-1?
"THEY HAVE A T-1?
"THEY HAVE A T-1!!
"STRASBURG REALLY HAS A T-1!!!"

Funny, but roughly the same kind of thoughts went through my mind as well. :)

Kelly Anderson · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:52 am **Posts:** 2477

Wowak · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:45 am

tyrok1 wrote:

Funny, but roughly the same kind of thoughts went through my mind as well. :)

Ya know, it would be nice if SRR would get 2100 and undo the hack-job oil conversion, but a T-hog is maybe slightly over sized for SRR operations. ;)

Dave · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:52 am

I had the PRR T-1 in mind, not the Reading......

dave

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

Wait, you mean the ones the PRR leased survived?

Kelly Anderson · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:52 am **Posts:** 2477

Kevin Gillespie · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:09 pm

Don't forget that the Strasburg Railroad is one of the few companies that could build a replica PRR T-1 from scratch. Not that I think they would ever have an economic reason to spend the money to make it happen.

Besides if they wanted to build an extinct PRR locomotive replica, my vote would be for a J-1 2-10-4.

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:30 pm

My goodness, that would be something! Strasburg running a T1 or J1 almost, what, four feet from one end of the line to the other? If NS would open their tracks to steam once again, it would a dream

Mark Jordan · **Joined:** Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:21 am **Posts:** 490

Quote:

Sure, the Air Force uses them in commuter service for the aliens at Area 51.

Kelly,
I'd hope that you wouldn't get folks in trouble trying to find this one. Most everyone knows it's been in a caved-in tunnel from the Atomic bomb tests in 1946-47. No way to get onto the property anyway.

tyrok1 · **Joined:** Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:46 am **Posts:** 166

Mark Jordan wrote:

Most everyone knows it's been in a caved-in tunnel from the Atomic bomb tests in 1946-47.

Tsk, tsk, why must people put perfectly good steam locomotives in tunnels. The Brooklyn and Jamaica tried leaving a steam locomotive in a tunnel about 100 years earlier, and look where that's gotten us today.

All kidding aside, it would be awfully cool if, somehow, either of those still existed.

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 22, 2019 9:20 pm

Trainlawyer wrote:

For an ever so brief moment as I perused the list,
"T-1? Huh?
"What T-1?
"THEY HAVE A T-1?
"THEY HAVE A T-1!!
"STRASBURG REALLY HAS A T-1!!!"
(Notices Great-Granddaughter's little blue piggy bank with other Brio on the floor)
"Oh..."

GME

Just came across this old thread looking for something else--and you know, with the Strasburg having recently hosted N&W 611, and the new T1 under construction, maybe this isn't so far fetched after all. . .