Someone sent me this link with a lot of great photos by Ron Wright of fan trips in the 1960's. If you click through them you will find photos of a lot of old favorites there.


http://www.rwrightrr.com/34_Steam%20Fan ... index.html

A feast of memories of a greater age. Thanks!

Glanced through some of the shots, and I have to concur with Mr. Glueck. Ross ought to check them out; 759 is there, along with shots of the first High Iron trips with Strasburg 90 and a Steamtown ex-CP G5. And there is the bittersweet, too, in the form of GTW 5629. . .

I am a big fan of the 1286 and 1238. Those girls have really gotten around.

Great memories!!

Ross Rowland

The G5s in general are very interesting. I find the lines of them reminiscent of some designs of British locomotives. Personally, I can't help but be a fan of the 1246 (currently at RMNE) for two reasons:
1) The largest steam locomotive I've seen so far in my lifetime. Now that was one amazing trip! If only EMS showed some urgency...
2) Dennis Lebeau, mentor of mine and Historical Commissioner for the town of East Brookfield, fired the 1246 while Steamtown was still in Vermont. I know it's not as glamerous as being on the throttle, but I envy him just because he got the experience. Now all I need to do is drag him to Thomaston so he can see it again, even if only a passing glance.

And LA&L 17.

Fond memories of the G5s. As a child in Harrisburg, my dad used to take me to York when they were on the Ma & Pa.

Many of those photos were like a replay of my late teens and early/mid twenties. And I think I stood in a few of those same spots at the same instant.

The photos look like they came from a large format camera, perhaps a 4x5 Graphic. Does anyone know the photographer, or does he visit this site?

Howard P.
Dark Slide, NY

ahhh...film.

Stephen

ahhh....Kodak.

ahhhh...... digital transmission of digitally converted images so that they can be shared with lots of others around the nation and world at little to no cost.......

What? What are YOU snarking at??? Did I not just speak the truth, via digital transmission of typing????

Having been born in 1982, I simply cannot believe that some of those things occurred.

Double headed steam on the NEC? That's gotta be a photoshop job...

Unreal.

I love the one of Strasburg's 90 in Bethlehem. Wow.

Oh, fear not Ed, it ALL happened. And more, too, just not all of it was photographed!

Howard P.
Time Tunnel, NY

It was a different time, even up through the 80's. There were still old steam men working on the railroads. The insurance companies were not running things so much. Railroaders did not think a solid bearing was a sure fire train wreck waiting to happen. There was still a decent passenger train infrastructure in place.