ご無沙汰してしまいました。
OreRailから、動態保存蒸気機関車の運転の写真が大量に届きました。場所は、ミネソタ州ツーハーバー付近です。
牽引機は、Soo LineのパシフィックNo.2719。牽かれているのが、エンパイアビルダー塗装の客車たちです。一番後ろは、DMIRの展望車、Northlandです。
こんな編成を今も走らせられるなんて、やっぱりアメリカはうらやましいですねぇ。
以下、OreRailより転載します。
Wow! What a good morning to chase a steam engine. The weather was hit and miss all the way up, with strong northwest winds that put a bite in the air yet made for some good steam photos. I will be brief with my captions, so here it goes.
On the south side of I35 running along Railroad Street.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879220
Climbing upgrade at 21st Ave East.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879221
I hustled out to 54th Ave East. As a matter of info Frank King shot DM&IR Pacific 1107 on a northbound train back in the 1950's, that photo has been published in both his Missabe books.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=201421
Hustling again out to 62nd Ave East.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879222
At MP 12 or better known as Clifton. The crest of a long grade.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=201422
Rounding the curve east of the Big Sucker River.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=201423
Whoops! A bit of rain at Knife River made the rails slippery, and the 2719 spun like crazy.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879223
Engineer Bob Oswald got the spinning under control.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879224
No sucker hole here just rain at MP 22.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879225
Rolling upgrade by Two Harbors Jct.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879226
Going away, Dan Mackey is hanging off the side ready to hop off at the switch that will line them into the depot.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879227
The Northland was on the rear hosting a group.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879228
The rear platform of the Northland as they shove to the depot.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879229
A broadside of the 2719, notice the clouds. Mr Oswald is throwing me a salute.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879230
Tom Gannon, curator for the LSRM, watches the water level in the boiler come up after opening up the injector.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879232
Dan Mackey, one of the firemen on the trip. He's wearing the proper hat for the occasion.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879233
The old and the older at Two Harbors.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879234
Rods down roster shot.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=201424
One last shot of the whole train.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=879236
Whew!
Kent Rengo
Duluth, MN