Preserved Locomotives: Show off the beasts in your area!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tatans

Can someone out there post a photo of the Selkirk 5931 at Heritage park in Calgary.

Here you go:



And what a beautiful engine it is, too! I've seen it on trips to Calgary and have ridden the steam-haued train at Heritage Park.

[Anonymous]

Well, let's see...


This is CNR 4-6-2 5114, built by MLW in 1919. Yes, I know it's a bad picture, but it's the only one I could find. It is preserved in Melville, Saskatchewan (home to a big CN yard, about 45 minutes from where I live) alongside an old station. This is the Melville Railway Museum. It never seems to be open, though. The only time I actually got inside was when I was 3 years old or so my parents tell me.


This is CNR 4-6-2 5093, built by MLW in 1918. It's on display in Regina (2 hours and 15 minutes from where I live) in front of Casino Regina. The Casino is housed in the city's old Union Station. There's also a CN dining car in front that is connected to the casino. A year or so ago, I heard that they wanted to get rid of it and were willing to give it to whoever wanted it. Apparently there was a town with an old factory that made the bricks used in locomotive fireboxes that was interested, but I haven't heard anything since.


This is CPR 4-8-4 3101, which is preserved at the IPSCO steel smelting plant, just outside of Regina. This was one of only two Northerns that CP had, both built in 1928. IPSCO melts down a lot of steel that comes from scrapyards located right beside it and many years ago this "scrap" included steam locomotives.


This is CPR 4-6-2 2634, built by MLW in 1912. It is at the Western Development Museum of Transportation in Moose Jaw (3 hours from where I live). The museum also has a narrow gauge 0-4-0ST that they operate on weekends in summer. I couldn't find a picture of it.

The only other preserved trains close to me are in Saskatoon and Winnipeg. Both cities are about a 4-hour drive from my town.

[Fergmiester]

Last of the Newfie Bullet

[tatans]

Can someone out there post a photo of the Selkirk 5931 at Heritage park in Calgary.

[dinwitty]

http://www.hesston.org/

not too far from here 20-30 miles with a variety of equipment.

[Anonymous]

I don't know if URL image linking works, but I'll try. This isn't exactly a beast, or even steam for that matter, but a shorline owned high hood GP9 that's been well taken care of and still operates a local here in my home town once a week. Kinda proud that the old Southern RR branchline is still in operation. :-D

[Jetrock]

www.csrmf.org

www.wrm.org

I would have a tough time doing a better job of showing local preserved engines than their official websites--but then I'm lucky enough to have a first-class railroad museum in my backyard, and a great one just a stretch down the highway.

[jon grant]

I have the world's largest railway museum less than 80 miles away from me. Here's a few pics to get the mouth watering.


Starting with the fastest of them all - Mallard






Duchess of Hamilton.




Evening Star and a few others including a Chinese State Railways beast




Jon

[howmus]

My favorite Mike! Canadian National #3254 at Steamtown USA in Scranton, PA
Riden behind her on a couple of occasions.

[bikerraypa]

Here's another Berkie.....NKP 755, at the railroad museum in Conneaut, OH (about an hour and a half from here).

[Anonymous]

I thought maybe it'd be cool if we all shared what preserved locomotives/rolling stock or just plain flat out interesting locomotives/rolling stock are in our areas. Just give us a picture if you can, a description, and if it runs or not. I'll go first.....



That's Pere Marquette 2-8-4 Berkshire #1223 and all her glory, sitting in Grand Haven, MI. She was built for the PM in the early 40s and served a few years on the C&O until her retirement. Curently the group that owns her (which I'm a member of) is talking of restoring her. A test was run a few years ago and the locomotive is in surprisingly good shape.

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