Locomotives at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum (Duluth, MN)

 

Locomotives at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum

 

1884 Baldwin 2-6-0 (#7469)

1917 Vulcan Iron Works 0-4-0 in Florence, SC

 

1911 H.K. Porter 0-4-0 in Coatesville, PA

 

1922 Alco (Cooke) 0-4-0 #63304 in Dudley, PA

 

The Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway

We visited and did a train excursion in Eureka Springs, AR. They had a lot of stuff lying around and most of it in not too good a shape. On display out front (and up high) was a 1934 Orenstein & Koppel 0-4-0, just like the ones at Silver Dollar City.

Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO

 

One of the main destinations for our vacation was Branson, MO. We spent a week there and visited Silver Dollar City where we did the train ride (of course) and tried to find all their trains. Most of them were European so we got to see some new builders.

1926 Baldwin 4-8-2 and Surprise Find in Amory, MS

 Yay we finally got back on the road for summer vacation in July of 2020. We were headed for Branson, MO so that path led us through some areas we had visited before. That was pre-YouTube so now we could actually get video and do some updates. I've already covered Columbus, MS here, but next up was Amory, MS where we re-visited a 1926 Baldwin 4-8-2.

The Travel Town Museum in Los Angeles, CA (Part 2)

 

Now for the second part of our visit to the Travel Town Museum in California (the first part was here). The trains in this video are:

1925 ALCO 0-6-0T (#66168)

1922 Lima Shay #3172

1918 Heisler 3Tr #1369

1921 Davenport 0-4-0 (1868)

1913 ALCO 0-4-0T (#53115)

1920 ALCO 2-8-2 (#61535)

1921 Southern Pacific 0-6-0

1904 ALCO 4-4-2 (#30005)

1902 North Shore (electric)

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1904 Porter 0-4-0 (#3077) at the Depot Museum in Huntsville, AL

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Just a few miles down the road from the North Alabama RR Museum in Huntsville, AL, was the Depot Museum which most definitely had a steam engine on site. It was a 1904 Porter 0-4-0 (#3077). Oddly enough, this museum was also closed with weird hours (10:00 - 3:00) so I missed out on yet another potential magnet. And yes, this is the same rainstorm that was on the last video.

1894 Cooke 4-6-0 and 1909 Porter 0-4-0 in Griffin, GA

Ok, now these trains were an adventure to say the least. Before leaving for vacation I had typed out an itinerary to help me find where the trains would be (and because I'm a bit of a nerd). I use the locomotive steam train database to see if anything is near my route. Most of the time they are in parks (#Heritage) or by the chamber of commerce or whatever. Our first stop was a 1906 Baldwin in Macon, GA.

Now these particular trains were supposedly at a museum that was now defunct. What that meant I didn't know. I put the address into Google maps, but it didn't help at all. Just showed me some trees.

Then I hit the aerial view:

1831, 1834, and 1836 B&O 0-4-0's: The "York", "Atlantic", and "John Hancock" (B&O Railroad Museum)

The York

Early steam train design used a vertical boiler.

1917 Vulcan Iron Works 0-4-0ST in Tifton, GA

We took a weekend trip up from central Florida to Tifton, GA to see the only running narrow gauge steam train in the state. It was a 1917 Vulcan Iron Works 0-4-0ST that runs at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture. I have driven by this area since I started making drives from Bama to work for The Mouse since 1989 and never knew this was here. This was the first view we got of the train: