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Little Trains of Wales Flintlock76 replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by Overmod	1	842
Indiana Transportation Museum Purdue University Crane? Erik_Mag replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by Trainzguy2472	5	1554
Want To Take A Ride On The Reading? Posted one year ago by Flintlock76	0	1097
A Curious Book NorthBrit replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by mersenne6	3	1262
Found this little treasure of a book " New Jersey Place Names" made by WPA in 1930s NKP guy replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by S-Bahn	12	1748
Bridge Line DH historical society? Flintlock76 replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by S-Bahn	6	1124
Michigan RailBike Posted one year ago by MidlandMike	0	1050
Rebuilt Steam Engines NDG replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by BaltACD	13	3458
Saving and restoration of the Danbury Museum's S and T New York Central locomotives Overmod replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by daveklepper	26	6044
The Locomotive Boiler Overmod replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by L-105	3	2079
Pennsylvania Ghost Town Rail Trail blue streak 1 replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by MidlandMike	19	4726
Alleghenies kgbw49 replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by Backshop	67	7941
The A1 Locomotive Trust 2022 Convention 54light15 replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by M636C	1	1118
Tapered boilers Overmod replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by Ulrich	6	2093
Trolley Triage BEAUSABRE replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by MidlandMike	2	1369
UP Steam Shop tour, December 19th Posted one year ago by Overmod	0	1038
Quick, Watson -- the game's afoot! kgbw49 replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by Overmod	7	2227
New York Central Steam Turbine Overmod replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by BEAUSABRE	6	2628
The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland M636C replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by M636C	5	1825
Someone's Going To Be In DEEP Doo-Doo! wjstix replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by Flintlock76	30	5179
The Brave Engineer pennytrains replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by 54light15	4	1669
UP announces donation of Steam Locomotive 3985 to Friends of 261 group. jeffhergert replied to this thread one year ago Posted 2 years ago by CMStPnP	21	4433
My town got a steam engine!!!!! D.Carleton replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by CMStPnP	12	2267
B&O 2-6-6-2 M636C replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by IA and eastern	7	2364
2102 Suffers Failure, SD50s used in her place Overmod replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by Harrison	27	4651
Southern Pacific MK-5 #745 Built at SP's Algiers, La. Shops [1921 (?)] samfp1943 replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by samfp1943	3	1256
Southern Pacific 982 to return to steam... Overmod replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by txhighballer	24	9330
Nice video of 261 from Oct 1, 2022 excursion. kgbw49 replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by CMStPnP	2	1030
Interesting Finds from the Baldwin and Lima Archives IA and eastern replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by L-105	19	5262
How they did it in 1950s Germany Overmod replied to this thread one year ago Posted one year ago by 54light15	11	2207