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It's been a while since I last posted here but I'm still around, I'm just busy trying to buy a new train room for myself, finding the train room is easy enough, finding one with a decent house attched to it is proving a little more difficult! 
Anyway, while driving west along I44 this morning to go sign some paperwork on what I hope will be my new train room I was idling watching the tracks on the right to see if there was anything interesting there (I wasn't driving). I looked ahead to the yard that I knew was coming up and I saw steam rising over the trees. I thought that was a bit strange, I was used to seeing black smoke but not steam, as we drew level with the yard I suddenly realised the shoulder was full of parked cars and the fence was lined with people looking into the yard, that was when I got my first glimpse of a big black boiler spewing smoke and steam, I mentioned to my wife that there was a steam engine exiting the yard (I was a little more excited than that though) and then was thrown againt the seat belt as she braked hard into the next available spot on the shoulder and leapt out of the car!
I wish I had known in advance that 1522 was running today and I would have gone to a decent vantage point, as it was, I did the best I could while balancing on the armco on the side of the interstate!
Then came the passenger cars, it looked as though they had scrounged every one they could find to get enough to cover the demand, I wonder if a mix like this has ever been seen before? I didn't think to count the cars but I would guess 12 - 15.
Right at the end we have this: electrical power and breakdown insurance?
Building the first trans-Atlantic Railroad
Anyway, while driving west along I44 this morning to go sign some paperwork on what I hope will be my new train room I was idling watching the tracks on the right to see if there was anything interesting there (I wasn't driving). I looked ahead to the yard that I knew was coming up and I saw steam rising over the trees. I thought that was a bit strange, I was used to seeing black smoke but not steam, as we drew level with the yard I suddenly realised the shoulder was full of parked cars and the fence was lined with people looking into the yard, that was when I got my first glimpse of a big black boiler spewing smoke and steam, I mentioned to my wife that there was a steam engine exiting the yard (I was a little more excited than that though
) and then was thrown againt the seat belt as she braked hard into the next available spot on the shoulder and leapt out of the car!I wish I had known in advance that 1522 was running today and I would have gone to a decent vantage point, as it was, I did the best I could while balancing on the armco on the side of the interstate!
Then came the passenger cars, it looked as though they had scrounged every one they could find to get enough to cover the demand, I wonder if a mix like this has ever been seen before? I didn't think to count the cars but I would guess 12 - 15.
Right at the end we have this: electrical power and breakdown insurance?
Building the first trans-Atlantic Railroad
Debbie
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