A bit of switching with this duo at the Bonsal yard.
The twins head back to Bonsal in the afternoon. Though built 11 years apart, these 40 ton Vulcan saddle tanks have nearly identical specs: 38 inch drivers, 14x22 inch cylinders, and 18,000 lbs. o... (more)
Teakettles times 2: Flagg Coal 75 (1930) teams up with NHVR's own Vulcan 0-4-0T #17 (1941) for two weekends of doubleheaded trips on the 4 mile line this month. If you look carefully, you can see... (more)
Flagg Coal 75 had to be one of the most well traveled steam engines today. Here it is seen double heading with a twin Vulcan 0-4-0T on the New Hope Valley RR. The 4 mile line is very tight in th... (more)
75 might be a tiny little thing, but her beautiful three chime whistle sounded great echoing through the piney woods of steam-starved SC.
The tiny 1930 saddle tank engine is dwarfed by the coaches as she shoves out the line.
Note the horns atop the first passenger car. These cars once served in the Northeast as electric MU cars. The pantographs were removed after arrival in SC.
Quite a carravan of chasers were out to watch this little tea kettle in action and many of these short trips out of the museum were sold out.
For the first time in many years steam returns to SC in the form of Flagg Coal 75 running on the volunteer operated SC RR Museum's Rockton, Rion, & Western line.
Flagg Coal 75 approaching restored Dearborn Tower on the Whitewater Valley RR.