Steam Mixed on the Strasburg Rail Road 4/5/17

PMC · **Joined:** Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:55 pm **Posts:** 2865

Man, that is the real deal, it just screams legitimacy, pretty much nowhere else in the English speaking world can you ride a train doing real freight work pulled by steam.

PMC in Oregon.

rem1028 · **Joined:** Tue Jan 24, 2017 10:32 am **Posts:** 292

Did the mixed run this morning?

bigjim4life · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2017 5:13 pm

rem1028 wrote:

Did the mixed run this morning?

Yes it did - two empties went out, and five loads came back (four hoppers and a gondola) - with one coach each way.

Hugh Sinn · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2017 6:47 pm

Picture at the interchange.
A great day.
Hugh

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rem1028 · **Joined:** Tue Jan 24, 2017 10:32 am **Posts:** 292

Wonderful!

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

junior · **Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2017 12:23 am

Kelly Anderson wrote:

Many thanks to the two paying passengers, and especially to the one (believe it of not) paying chaser. When I heard about that, I told the conductor to be careful driving home that he didn't hit a big foot while watching the UFO hovering over his car. Who knows, maybe you will start a trend.

Here is a video from today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgtvRrD5EWo

I was going to ask, after just watching a video via another site, of the trip, how many people rode versus chased? I'm glad to hear a chaser paid....And I'm pretty sure he is the one whose video I just watched.

Curiosity....What's in the gon?

Bobharbison · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:42 pm **Posts:** 3010

Had I chased this, I'd certainly have been happy to buy a ticket, and anyone who didn't should be ashamed. $15? You can blow that for Starbucks and a burger. Quite reasonable and well worth supporting.

Hugh Sinn · **Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2017 7:57 am

I was one of the two passengers.
My humble video from the other site.
Gives a peak of the gon contents.
And see 90 slip shoving the load in a reverse movement.
This is Railway Preservation in 2017.

https://youtu.be/6yh58Msj2DA

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

diningcartim · **Joined:** Fri Sep 20, 2013 2:34 pm **Posts:** 197

Sorry to hear you only got three paying fares for the mixed. I had a business meeting that day or I would have done it.

Kelly, please keep up your postings about future mixed trains - I think a lot of us want to ride but have to have the right day to do it.

jfeldman75 · **Joined:** Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:12 pm **Posts:** 23

I echo diningcartim's post. I am interested in riding a steam powered mixed sometime this year; I'm off on Wednesdays in my current job but am 2 1/2 hours away, so it's a matter of very challenging logistics (getting a son to daycare and other things). Hopefully I'll get there sometime this summer when one is running. Yesterday's train looked like a trip back in time. Awesome.

junior · **Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2017 10:24 am

Kelly Anderson wrote:

junior wrote:

I was going to ask, after just watching a video via another site, of the trip, how many people rode versus chased? I'm glad to hear a chaser paid....And I'm pretty sure he is the one whose video I just watched.

Curiosity....What's in the gon?

How many chased, I heard "A lot" but I'll have to see if I can get a better estimation.

The gon is loaded with steel bar stock for a local supplier.

Good videos, both. I understand that Big Jim was the paying chaser, good karma to you Jim.

Thanks Kelly for the gon info.

You guys move a good mix of commodities. Kudos to your freight marketing department for doing what so many other shortlines fail to do....drum up new business.

And props to BigJim.