The WW&F Railway Museum in Alna, ME

1924 Baldwin 0-4-4RT #57659

1904 Vulcan Iron Works (Wilkes-Barre) 0-4-4RT

1891 Portland Co 0-4-4RT

 

Vulcan Iron Works (Wilkes-Barre) 0-4-0ST #3380 in Rockport, ME

 

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

 

1915 Vulcan Iron Works (Wilkes-Barre) 2-8-0 #2411 in Gulf Hammock, FL

 

Trains at the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA

 

1944 Lima 2-8-4

Yup

The US Army Transportation Museum in Ft. Eustis, VA

 

This was a cool place to visit. The US Army Transportation Museum details the whole history of transporting supplies for military purposes. This involves steam trains!

1945 Lima 2-8-0

1946 Vulcan 0-6-0T

1927 Vulcan 0-4-0T in Columbia, TN

 

After making a quick stop in Kentucky, we started our trip homeward through Tennessee. Our first stop was in Columbia, where we searched around this large park. We found an area with live steamers and nearby was the locomotive in a fenced off area.

A Visit to the Kirby Family Farm in Williston, FL

In one of our many trips back and forth to Alabama from central Florida in 2019, we detoured off the highway to see what we could find at the Kirby Family Farm. There was no one around and the gates were wide open so we went in and looked around. We were hoping to find someone to give us some info (and permission) about the place, but it was deserted.

These were the trains we saw:

Vulcan/Custom Fabricators: diesel-hydraulic, from Great America (#19), Santa Clara, CA then Williston Crossing RV Resort, was a 2-4-0.

1910 Porter 2-4-0 (#4643): Named Beatrice, built as a 2-4-4RT, rebuilt as a diesel hydraulic, from Opryland, Nashville, later Astroworld, Houston, then Six Flags America, Mitchellville, MD.

Crown Metal Products (Elizabeth): named Sam Houston while at Six Gun Territory (1964-1984), Silver Springs, then displayed in Atlanta

1954 Baldwin RS-4-TC: USAF #1248. Construction number 61203 is from the Baldwin Small Locomotive Division that still used the Whitcomb builders numbers.

Plymouth mining locomotive.

P.S. I emailed the owners from their website and told them I had stopped by and did some pics/video. They said it was cool, so thumbs up on not getting arrested for trespassing.

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1907 Vulcan 0-4-0ST in Zephyrhills, FL

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As we started circling back from Tampa, we found a 1907 Vulcan 0-4-0ST right outside of Zephyrhills, FL. It was in a fenced in "park", but there was no way to access this train from the other side. This loco has a greatly documented history that you can check out here.

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: