Western Railroad Discussion > U-Boats in Lebanon, and Jolly Old St. Nick

Lebanon, Oregon, that is. It is time for the Santa Express on the Albany & Eastern Railroad, so they put together a fiv car train, put a B23-7 on each end, and loaded the train with Santa and his helpers, and lots of kids and adults, and off the went for a six mile ride towards Sweet Home and then back! The roughly one hour trips depart the Lebanon depot at 11, 1, & 3 today, Sunday, and both days next weekend.

Photo one: The car of the hour, RFRX 1003 which is serving as Santa's headquarters.

Photo two: Loading before departure.

Photo Three: The 4201 gets the train moving out of the depot site. Smoking up just like a GE, part of why we love them! Well, some of us do!

Rob



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/13/14 22:18 by SilvertonRR100.

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We had great trips today (Saturday). All trips for two days are sold out. BTW the locomotives are B23-7 built in '78. We would have had the black widow painted 5399, but it was easier to shuffle the GEs on to the train. I was working and didn't have the ability to take pictures. I did see some people out taking pictures, maybe one of them was a TO member.

shay2305 Wrote:
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> We had great trips today (Saturday). All trips
> for two days are sold out. BTW the locomotives
> are B23-7 built in '78. We would have had the
> black widow painted 5399, but it was easier to
> shuffle the GEs on to the train. I was working
> and didn't have the ability to take pictures. I
> did see some people out taking pictures, maybe one
> of them was a TO member.


Yeah, me!

Rob

Photo Four: The man of the hour and the season, second only to Jesus himself.

Photo five: First car in the train was a HEP car, WPRX 1402.

Photo six: Third car was diner (?) WPRX 1241.

More to come,

Rob

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Photo seven: open air car AERC 1002, the busiest car on the train!

Photo eight: CPAR 100, the Appekunny Mountain.

Photo nine: Headed East at Waterloo, OR.

More to come.

Rob

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Photo ten: Starting back at Waterloo, OR. 4202 now leading and boy does she have the better horn!

Photo eleven: Coming back into Lebanon.

Merry Christmas!!!!

Rob

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Looks like fun.
How do you publicize this?
I'd like to ride if you do it in the future.

Nice photos. That's me in the first photo at the bottom of the stairs waiting to help load passengers. I was also the engineer on the 4202. I don't know how the trains are advertised, however a basic website is found at santiamexcursiontrains.com.

shay2305 Wrote:
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> Nice photos. That's me in the first photo at the
> bottom of the stairs waiting to help load
> passengers. I was also the engineer on the 4202.
> I don't know how the trains are advertised,
> however a basic website is found at
> santiamexcursiontrains.com.


Good job shay2305. I finally found the information after searching A&E Santa. They must have done some good advertising if the runs were sold out. Mike & I just stumbled into it after going to the model swap meet nearby.

Rob



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/17/14 08:07 by SilvertonRR100.

What a cool looking train....!! Thanks for sharing.