Steam Engines
This past Christmas season one of Portland, Oregon’s steam engines, Southern Pacific #4449, was used to pull public excursion trains.Tickets were sold out and it was a very succesfull couple of weeks, with most of the money going to support of the 4449 and to provide money towards it’s new home.
Eileen’s cousin is a former cameraman for a local TV station and set up his camera beside the tracks and managed to capture some pretty nice shots of the 4449 coming into the departure siding.
A cold snowy day, lots of steam and haunting sound of steam whistles. This is just about 1 1/2 minutes of the whole video, but it’s a great view of a great steam engine.
This file is more than 30M bytes in size and will take a long time to download if you don’t have broadband. And due to storage constraints on my webhost, this file will probably be deleted in a couple of weeks.
http://www.gaiser.org/4449.avi
UPDATE: AVI file deleted. Please contact me if you would like a copy
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Chery wrote:
Thanks for posting the file. I will check it when I get home on Mar 9. Don’t delete until after then if you can wait that long.
Posted on 26-Feb-06 at 9:31 pm | Permalink
Jerry wrote:
It’ll be a while, probably more than a couple of weeks.
Posted on 27-Feb-06 at 8:13 am | Permalink
Lark wrote:
That is an awesome video. I just love trains. We recently purchased our “retirement” property in Flagstaff and even though it’s about 10 minutes from downtown, you can hear the train whistle. They have 80 trains a day come through town so I’ll have lots of whistles to listen to. Music to my ears…unfortunately we’ll have to wait about 4 years until we can get there….thanks again for the video!
Posted on 02-Mar-06 at 7:46 pm | Permalink
Joanna Root wrote:
I lived in Milwaukie as a child, and loved the trains! Traveled by train with my mom. Thanks so much for the video file and a blast from the past so to speak!
Posted on 08-Mar-06 at 5:02 am | Permalink