Re: Freeway collapse in Oakland (nDc)

volkfolk wrote:
... An interesting sidebar about the Union Pacific is they are the only RR I am aware of that still owns and regularly operates some of it's own, original steam engines on a regular basis, on excursions and occasionally in actually "revenue" service. All of the other operating steam engines I am aware of are owned and operated by museums (I used to have a video of the UP's "Challenger" articulated locomotive-one of the biggest Steam locomotives that was ever made-pulling a 150 car train over Sherman Hill outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming by itself in the mid 1990's) ...

The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad runs a steam engine. They're
planning to replace their diesel with another one and become an
all steam operation at some point.

http://www.gsmr.com/

--
Ken Fortenberry
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