Just some new ones figured you guys might like...

Barney with our shop kitty 'Cinders'


Firing her up for the first time in 2007


Stoker valves


Snapshot of 1225 on the turntable.


Stoker and feedwater gauges


Brake gauges





Bell and sander gauges



More Brake gauges



In the shop friday night.




Now for the older pics........

Passing through Henderson, MI on our NPE trips



In Chesaning, MI waiting for passengers



Brake gauges


Stoker and feedwater gauges


Oops!



Chevy waiting at crossing


Cylinder and steam



Switching in the yard



This was taken as FCC #75 pulled 5 cars up grade, and through tight curves (museum cars, lounge, passenger coach and caboose)

Whoa! NUMBERBOARDS!

Very nice.

And just in time...

KL

Nice "patina" on the engine in that turntable photo. Great shots of Flagg Coal, too.

Wesley

Spent like 2 minutes each in photoshop with these two...

That pix of building a fire caught my eye.
Friend of mine was telling me recently about
a summer job he had in college building
fires in steamers for the NYC.
He said they had a big box of wood
shavings and then dumped some
kero on it, built on big pile of
handshoveled coal.
Nice pix.

And a couple more... I just decided to screw around with them in photoshop, using my trademark sepia conversion, with some of the original color.

Thanks Foamer --- see ya this weekend Kelly.

Wait 'itl you see the AA and Wabash boxcars. OH YEAH.

TJ

There's no need to see his photos . . .

these aren't the boxcars you're looking for.

You can go about your business.

Move along . . . Move along.









(Lord, what a buncha foamers.)

You know its not too late to save the matching caboose to 1225, the caboose at the Halton County Radial Railway that was L&PS started out life as a Pere Marquette caboose. She is in need of restoration, but would make an excellent companion to 1225.
http://www.hcry.org/collection_1926_C-2.html

Yes . . . Obi-wan . . . .

S Zuiderveen . . . .

Owner, AA 2839

TJ -

Any chance that the REST of us here on RyPN could eventually see photos of the AA and Wabash boxcars?

Les

As soon as the air pressure is up, I wonder how long it will take to make big piles of sand under front of the drivers from the sand pipes. It looks like it's wide open for the forward sanders.
Nice photos!

Other than the fact its from the Canadian lines, was sold off to L&PS by the Pere Marquette a good 10 years before #1225 was ever purchased, AND has a TREE growing through it.....

If I were SRI, I'd be spending money on more important projects, like rescuing the NYC J3a from an East Chicago scrap yard, regauging the Otisville Branch, raising the City of Milwaukee, rebuilding the Ann Arbor roundhouse in Owosso, finding the right paper clips to put the 5629 back together (thank god there is still a main rod, those are hard to make), hosting the yellow ribbon express, rebuilding the MILW skytop cars and refurbishing the GTW Lansdowne while they're at it, buying the 6325, repatriating the Stirling 0-8-0s (because the only thing better than a basket case locomotive is three of them), bringing all the LS&I engines home, rebuilding GTW 5632, 5030, 6039, 4070, 1223, 1601....basically, I imagine there are many things that would come first (anyone have a couple dollars handy??)

You missed restoring the Shay in Cadillac to operation.

Steve Zuiderveen

If all goes well, it would be my hope Mr. Craft would post such on here after said photo charter, as well as the changes we made to #1225.

Thanks,

TJ