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Steam & Excursion > Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk RiveDate: 02/25/15 11:25 Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Rive Author: Barstool Here are a few more shots taken on the Buffalo Creek and Galley.....The two rail buses that were on hand and the B looks like a back up to Mack Rail bus.
  Date: 02/25/15 11:33 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: Barstool Sitting at the engine terminal of the Buffalo Creek And Galley is 2-8-0 13 and right next to BC&G 2-8-0 14 is 13 and 2-8-0 14 is busy taking on sand
   Date: 02/25/15 11:37 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: Barstool Elk River Coal Co. had a number of other steam engines that I was able to shoot and the first one was 2-8-2 #16 and the second engine was the 17 with the eye brow sitting next to the coal plant.
  Date: 02/25/15 11:42 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: glibby Great photos. Thanks for posting. Do you have a date for these photos?
Date: 02/25/15 11:49 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: Barstool Gibby......The date is about Sept 10th 1957......
Date: 02/25/15 11:52 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: tomstp I sure like the looks of #17.
Date: 02/25/15 12:10 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: HotWater Very, very nice. I knew it had to be prior to 1960, as the BC&G locomotives still have their older letter & number on the cab sides.
Date: 02/25/15 14:13 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: m1bprr My first trip ever to the BC&G was made in my 1961 Corvette, Firemen Ab Wilson took a look at the Vette with his squity eye, and said "Ain't no good down here" of course most everyone in the area drove a pick up truck.
#14 at the Dundon interchange with the B&O. Then at Georgia Pacific Swandale saw mill. Ed K. cp Laurel Run    Date: 02/25/15 14:25 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: oldhead Things you miss from your youth. I'd want the vette, the girl and go see the train!
Date: 02/25/15 14:54 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: Keystone1 Wow Ed...I'm impressed!!! Those were the days.
Date: 02/25/15 15:34 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: Keystone1 Getting back to 2-8-2's #16 and #17. When I first went to the BC&G in 1961, the two locomotives we in the rears of the Dundon, W.Va. engine terminal along with #10. They had all been recently pulled off the "gop pile" in Widen. Later, #16 was put on display in Richmond, W. Va., but was scrapped in 1970. #17 wound up in Avon, New York on the Livonia, Avon and Lakeville. She ran there for a short time, using the ex-Pennsy tender from Huntington and Broad Top #38, which was out of service. #17 was scrapped in 1974. #10 made its way to Huntington, W. Va. where she is on display representing the C&O family and shops there, as part of the Huntington Railway Museum. #38 was sold to the Knox, Kane and Kinzua, where she was fixed up to run, complete with her "new" Pennsy tender. The Kinzua Bridge was felled during a violent storm on July 21, 2003. Later, a roundhouse fire burned up #38 and the Chinese SY 2-8-2, which killed off the tourist railroad for good. The 2-8-2, was later purchased by David Conrad of the Valley Railroad in Conn. He fixed her up beautifully to resemble a New Haven steam locomotive. She runs today in Conn., as New Haven 2-8-2 #3025. A more difficult question please...
Date: 02/25/15 16:04 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: m1bprr Up on the Lily Fork, Georgia Pacific Conductor Dale Nutter hooks logs, I'm sure OSHA would frown on this, but this was way before OSHA the men got the job done!
One of my last trips to the BC&G in 1963. Ed K. cp Laurel Run    Date: 02/25/15 16:35 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: Keystone1 Hey...who is that good looking guy in the cab of #4? He belongs in the vette with the girl! Who is that girl Ed?
Date: 02/25/15 18:25 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: doge_of_pocopson m1bprr Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Up on the Lily Fork, Georgia Pacific Conductor > Dale Nutter hooks logs, I'm sure OSHA would frown > on this, but this was way before OSHA the men got > the job done! Lot more mean were injured or died back before OSHA too. Date: 02/25/15 19:23 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: Mgoldman doge_of_pocopson Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > m1bprr Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > > Up on the Lily Fork, Georgia Pacific Conductor > > Dale Nutter hooks logs, I'm sure OSHA would > > frown on this, but this was way before OSHA the men > > got the job done! > > Lot more mean were injured or died back before > OSHA too. And the government was not in such dire straights for funds as they are now. Can you apply those astronomically high fines towards fixing the problem? No... we don't want to help you, we just want to the money. Great shots, Ed - love the short motor car! It would fascinating to see all the BC&G steam engines in one yard again! /Mitch Date: 02/25/15 22:05 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: Worthington_S_A tomstp Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I sure like the looks of #17. 17 was ex-Savannah & Atlanta, IIRC. After she went to another operation in New York, she lost the feedwater heater for some reason or the other, and later was sadly cut up. Date: 02/26/15 06:43 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: YG Date: 02/26/15 13:24 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: TonyJ I sure am enjoying all the photos! Thank you!
Date: 02/26/15 20:21 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: nycman Ed, leaving NY for CA in 1961. To make it rail related, running alongside the NY Central MOW for miles and miles and miles.
 Date: 02/27/15 10:41 Re: Back To The Past---The Bufflo Creek & Galley & Elk Author: HotWater nycman Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Ed, leaving NY for CA in 1961. To make it rail > related, running alongside the NY Central MOW for > miles and miles and miles. Sorry, wrong color Vette. |