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This is the first in a series of photos I found with a pile of my stuff in a box. They are from a trip I was on with the Boy Scouts. The place is the "Pioneer Tunnel" in Ashland Pennsylvania.
We got the the site a little late and we missed the first run of the steam train. In fact, we arrived before the train returned. I wish I had a video camera, it was a really awesome site watching the train pull into the "station. (there really is no station or platform. You just get on.)
Anyway, here is the locomotive. It's an old 1920s 0-4-0T built by Vulcan. The engine is not the original steamer when the line was used for hauling coal, but it is from the local area and served at a near by mine. Which is no longer existant. The day was very damp and chilly, which was great, for it really helped to enhance the effect of steam from the locomotive.
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We got the the site a little late and we missed the first run of the steam train. In fact, we arrived before the train returned. I wish I had a video camera, it was a really awesome site watching the train pull into the "station. (there really is no station or platform. You just get on.)
Anyway, here is the locomotive. It's an old 1920s 0-4-0T built by Vulcan. The engine is not the original steamer when the line was used for hauling coal, but it is from the local area and served at a near by mine. Which is no longer existant. The day was very damp and chilly, which was great, for it really helped to enhance the effect of steam from the locomotive.
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Category Photography / Miscellaneous
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File Size 562.1 kB
I've always found pioneer tunnel to be interesting in their operating practices. Primarily the fact that the locomotive has no tender or coal bunker so the engine isn't feed coal during the trip. The engineer literally just stokes the boiler in station until he has a big enough head of steam to make the trip to the mine and back. Of course the trip is short enough to accomplish this but interesting nonetheless.
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