Number of posts : 1753 Registration date : 2010-10-25 Age : 51 Location : Dayton,Ohio
Subject: 400 Tons of AWESOME! Sun May 12, 2013 7:55 pm
This is a rush. Was track side with it going by at full speed......
hobbz
Number of posts : 190 Registration date : 2011-11-11 Age : 43 Location : Flatwoods, KY
Subject: Re: 400 Tons of AWESOME! Sun May 12, 2013 8:20 pm
sweet
aweisgarber SSXSRider Member
Number of posts : 177 Registration date : 2009-11-10 Age : 60 Location : Clinton,TN
Subject: Re: 400 Tons of AWESOME! Sun May 12, 2013 9:02 pm
Where was it?
wvregulators SSXSRider Member
Number of posts : 825 Registration date : 2012-10-27 Age : 63 Location : Indianapolis. and West Virginia
Subject: Re: 400 Tons of AWESOME! Sun May 12, 2013 11:16 pm
that is freaking bad ass!!!!!!! it looks like a 2-8-4
MuddyBuddy SSXSRider Member
Number of posts : 2085 Registration date : 2010-01-03 Age : 37 Location : Nashville, TN
Subject: Re: 400 Tons of AWESOME! Sun May 12, 2013 11:36 pm
THATS AWESOME!!
Gimpy SSXSRider Member
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Subject: Re: 400 Tons of AWESOME! Mon May 13, 2013 9:41 pm
That's a big DADDY there.
pit dog SSXSRider Member
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Subject: Re: 400 Tons of AWESOME! Mon May 13, 2013 10:37 pm
ohsresq SSXSRider Member
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Subject: Re: 400 Tons of AWESOME! Tue May 14, 2013 10:07 pm
It was a NS Special running between Rocky River and Bellevue Ohio on Sunday. It will be passing through as a dead head (no passengers) from Cleveland to Bellevue Ohio on May 30th and from Bellevue, OH to Fort Wayne, IN via Fostoria, OH on May31st. All on Norfolk Southern trackage. If you go to Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Societies Web site. They have an APP for I phone that you can track it's location or a link to track it's location on your computer. Very Cool and worth trying to seeing if you have the opportunity. On the website they also have a schedule and a link to buy tickets to ride. As a side note the diesel locomotive behind the tenders is just there for back up if the Steamer loses power.
ohsresq SSXSRider Member
Number of posts : 1753 Registration date : 2010-10-25 Age : 51 Location : Dayton,Ohio
Subject: Re: 400 Tons of AWESOME! Tue May 14, 2013 10:41 pm
This is not my video but from same day. Enjoy.
MuddyBuddy SSXSRider Member
Number of posts : 2085 Registration date : 2010-01-03 Age : 37 Location : Nashville, TN
Subject: Re: 400 Tons of AWESOME! Wed May 15, 2013 11:31 am
ohsresq wrote:
It was a NS Special running between Rocky River and Bellevue Ohio on Sunday. It will be passing through as a dead head (no passengers) from Cleveland to Bellevue Ohio on May 30th and from Bellevue, OH to Fort Wayne, IN via Fostoria, OH on May31st. All on Norfolk Southern trackage. If you go to Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Societies Web site. They have an APP for I phone that you can track it's location or a link to track it's location on your computer. Very Cool and worth trying to seeing if you have the opportunity. On the website they also have a schedule and a link to buy tickets to ride. As a side note the diesel locomotive behind the tenders is just there for back up if the Steamer loses power.
They also use it for dynamic braking coming down big hills and as an APU for the cars that dont have their own power, outside of that shes completely in tow the Steam is doing all the pulling. People don't realize how much more powerful they were, just extremely inefficient.
DirtDawber SSXSRider Member
Number of posts : 4094 Registration date : 2009-02-24 Location : Originally Joined June 2008 - Hazard Ky
Subject: Re: 400 Tons of AWESOME! Wed May 15, 2013 12:12 pm
