Steam & Excursion > Didn't Know the Locomotive Would Be Famous Back Then ...

Back in 1954, my siblings and I climb on the Glenbrook in Carson City.  Didn't know it would be famous back then.

Stan Praisewater

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Stan, I too had a similar experience back in 1958.  Here's a photo of me in the cab of N&W 1218 while under steam in Roanoke.  At the time I had no idea it would survive and become famous.
Here's a link to photos I posted in 2008 of other N&W steam on that trip to Roanoke:  http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1600403
Dave Haynes

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Here is my contribution to this thread.  Back in 1971 we were visiting family in Portland, Oregon when my dad took my brother and I down to Union Station so we could look around.  We came across this old steam engine and I climbed up in the cab.  This was the only photo my dad ever took of me inside a steam locomotive cab.

Oh yes, you want to know what engine this was that we stumbled across?  Mount Emily Lumber Co. Shay #1!!  How about that for irony?



Martin



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/15 05:15 by LoggerHogger.

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Me on ATSF 1 and wooden passenger car 2 at Union Station, Houston, TX. Mid-1950s.

Brian Ehni

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