Steam & Excursion > Skookum at Niles Canyon

This weekend, Skookum (Columbia River Belt Line Railway 2-4-4-2 #7) was operating Saturday & Sunday during its guest residency on the Niles Canyon Railroad. These shots are Sunday. The first two shots are backin down light following the regular train, first passing the wig-wags at Brightside and second at Farwell. The third shot is waiting to couple onto the USN GE65T at Niles.

Jim B



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/12/19 10:56 by jimB.

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Minor correction Jim.  That is a 65 tonner not a 44.  THe PLA/NCRY has examples of GE 44, 65 and 80 tonners. 

Nice pictures.

Thx. I corrected it.

Jim

Point to remember, GE 44 Tonners do not have front and rear platforms.
That is the quuickest check to ID them.

==The other Jim Baker

James R.(Jim) Baker
Whittier, CA

Nice shots.  The Skookum is certainly one clean steam locomotive.

Gerry

Hi, Jim, I now Chris and others at PLA were working on getting the Skookum to steam better.  Is that all behind them now?

Mike, it would probably be best if one of them responded on that, since I don't have first hand knowledge. It looked like it was doing pretty well.

Jim

Love the second shot: it really shows off the
beauty of the livery, and the fine work done
during restoration. That loc is a charmer.

John.

The biggest improvement to getting it to “steam better”. Is take it from a ‘soaker’ to superheated..
Even a modest amount of superheat would be really noticeable...You don’t have to heat as much “fresh” water
and the draft can be stronger, burning a hotter fire..

IMHO..

W.