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"Surrounded" June, 1999
Photographer: Terry Geeck
Engineer: Bob Winkel
Engine: 0-4-0 Beam Engine, Free Lance Design Propane fired vertical
boiler, twin double acting pistons
Location: Great Lakes Live Steamers track in Royal Oak,
Michigan
While providing a photo opportunity for some friends
by holding their little one on my knee, the young fella and dad that
had just ridden the train came up to say thank you.
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Engine: 0-4-0 Beam
Engine, Free Lance Design Propane fired vertical boiler, twin double
acting pistons.
Engine design and construction by: Bill Conner of Shelbyville, TN.
Owner: Bob Winkel of Rochesterm MI
The picture was taken at the track of the Grate Lakes Live
Steamers in Royal Oak, MI The engine, cars and caboose are an
attempt to bring back the very earliest days of railroading in
America.
The train is always a big hit with the riders at the
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Weston Park Shropshire
England yesterday. Home of the 2" scale class 59 Garratt.
20 feet long 4,000 lbs, oil fired, Geisel ejector exhaust (see
chimney)
Very powerful with huge tractive effort.
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This is my Sierra
Nevada Wood & Lumber Co. #3. It is a fitchburg mogal and was
completed in November 2000. It took me 2 years to
complete and is shown here at the Orange County Model Engineers
track during one of my recent visits.
Mr. Erin Swain
Redlands, CA
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Me resting up at the
Long Island Live Steamers while held up by heavy traffic in the
station. The Engine is a Mercer CNJ ten wheeler in 7.25 gauge. It
has a multiport exhaust nozzle but is otherwise in original
condition. Poor health caused me to sell it to a Pennsy Live
Steamers Member
Submitted by: Dave Knowles
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