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Waushakum Live Steamers Fall Blow-down Meet 2008 - WARNING! MANY PHOTOS!
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<p>First post on the Garden Railways forum... Normally I stay in the TRAINS and MR area, but here goes.</p><p>Today I visited the <a href="http://wls.steamingpriest.com/wls/Visitors.html" mce_href="http://wls.steamingpriest.com/wls/Visitors.html">Waushakum Live Steamers</a> Club in Holliston, MA. They have both a 3-1/2" and 4-3/4" high line (it's duel gauge) and a 7-1/4" ground line. The high line has about 1,700' of track, while the ground line has about 3,500' of track. There were rides on the ground line, and a few on the high line although it was unclear how to get one. I took quite a few photos of the trains and the facilities for servicing them, which I'll share here. There's also a video which can be found here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YPG-Gw6mhY" title="Waushakum Live Steamers" mce_href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YPG-Gw6mhY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YPG-Gw6mhY </a></p><p>Facilities:</p><p> [IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7626.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7627.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7712.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7690.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7676.jpg[/IMG]</p><p> </p><p>Ground Line: I took a ride on this, but no photos or video was allowed to avoid rocking the car. One interesting part was when the train stalled on a grade, and we received helpers in the form of the head and rear end brakemen pushing the train by hand!<br></p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7618.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7628.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7644.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7646.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7649.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7650.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7658.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7667.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7682.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7684.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7686.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7687.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7709.jpg[/IMG] <br></p><p>High Line: </p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7623.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7625.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7641.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7642.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7679.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7693.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7696.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7700.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7701.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/Waushakum%20Live%20Steamers/IMG_7708.jpg[/IMG]</p><p>Hope you enjoyed! <br></p>
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