Reports, reviews, and experiences at or about museums
This photo of the famous Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad #490 Hudson was taken at the B & O Museum in Baltimore back in 1989. The locomotive is an L-1 class 4-6-4 steamer. It was built by Alco, but not in the Schenectady shops. At the time of this writing, reports indicate that this marvelous machine has been indoors at the museum for a long time, thus preserving it for the future.
The next time you are in Los Angeles, be sure to visit the Flight Path Museum!
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This is a photograph of locomotive #31, a Baldwin, on the Strasburg Rail Road in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. The locomotive was built in Philadelphia in 1908.
This photo was snapped along the “Road to Paradise”, which is Strasburg’s line from the Strasburg station to Paradise along Route 30 in Lancaster County. The filmstock was Kodak Kodacolor Gold 35mm. I recently scanned it from the original negative. This image has been mildly touched up in Photoshop to correct color shift and aging.
If you are a fan of the great movie Grand Prix (1966, staring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, and others) you are probably familiar with racing cars similar to the one on the right. This is a BRM P56 race car from 1961. It is one of the …
