It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is another from when we had the Memorial Run out at the C&H railroad. We had all 3 engines operating for the very first time so I had to capture some photos of them. These are all 12 inch Ottaway locomotives that were originally built in Wichita Kansas. The 1st one run on the C&H is on the right, the second on the left and the middle one was restored by the owners several years back now.
It's a double digit day! 😀 It's also Steamy Sunday here on the Blog. Today's image is a bit different as I am actually in it. I had someone shooting some video with my phone and I pulled this off the video. It was a 3 whistle salute to the owner of the railroad who has passed by the 3 operating locomotives he owned. Ottaway 1011 is on the left, 1045 is in the middle and #5 which originated as 1031 is on the right. Steam going up into the whistle and moving about the chamber and out creates the sound to extremely simplify how a whistle works. It was the first time all 3 locomotives were operating together.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is from last Saturday at the railroad I help out at outside Topeka Kansas. It was a lovely autumn day and the weather was pretty good and Santa came and visited with the kids which they enjoyed very much. This is an image of one of the steam trains as it was crossing the bridge as it left with it's passengers. I also have a short video of this run HERE if you would like to watch.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog once again. Near the end of October we went out to the railroad I volunteer at outside of Topeka Kansas. After the run we were cleaning out the locomotives and I took this shot of the locomotive I get to run as we were blowing it down to empty it of water and any possible scale. It was especially important to empty of any water due to winterizing them which is just making sure they are competely dry. We take plugs out and then blow them out with air after they naturally blow down.
