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.
Little Lexi the cat experienced her first HO train running around the tree the other evening, and this is the result. It is not as good as catnip, but Lexi agrees that the train is pretty good after all.
In the previous posts I described the train I was building for holiday decor. This is it completed. You can see the Santa train to the left. This train is inspired by the electric ride-on railroad in the toy department of the Rhodes Department Store in Tacoma in the ’50s …
Well, not exactly the railroad! This is one of the passenger cars that I mentioned in my last post. It is partially painted with a little bit more to go. There’s a lot of pin-striping on this project. In the post from the other day I mentioned that these holiday …
Back in the 1950s and through the ’60s the great place to do in Tacoma, Washington was Rhodes Department Store. The big store downtown was a treasure chest of cool things. But, at Christmas time the coolest of the cool was up in the toy department. The Milwaukee Railroad sponsored, …
The Travel Town Museum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, has a special treat for visitors. On display is a three-truck Shay built by the Lima company in 1922. Unfortunately, this one is not operating, but it is still work viewing up close. The Shay design was not intended for speed. …
One of the interesting things about Travel Town in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, is that you can get up close and personal, so to speak, with several fascinating steam locomotives. One of the coolest is #1273 seen here. #1273 was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad in their Sacramento shops. …
In our last post we showed you video taken at Travel Town in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. The miniature train in Travel Town appears to be propelled by propane. As you might expect, any train needs a train yard, and this one is no different. The Travel Town miniature …
Travel Town is an outdoor museum featuring several steam locomotives and some rail cars. Located in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, this is a great place to bring the kids. The miniature train in this video circles Travel Town and is a great favorite, as you can see.
