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 Posted - July 22 2015 : 7:39:59 PM
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The reason I've been pretty much silent on the forums for a while is because I went on a trip and I went to the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad. Here are the pictures I took there. 
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Posted - July 22 2015 : 10:18:18 PM
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coool
Wish I could get one of those RDCs
POTB is no more
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Posted - July 22 2015 : 11:07:09 PM
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quote:coool
Wish I could get one of those RDCs
POTB is no more
Originally posted by microbusss - July 22 2015 : 10:18:18 PM
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I know they aren't. The OCSR bought the old line a few years after it closed down. Someday I'm actually thinking of turning an Athearn Blue Box GP unit into POTB #101 (the cow colored engine). Maybe even take an Athearn RDC and turn it into the Coast Explorer.
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Posted - July 23 2015 : 09:53:31 AM
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I read they has plans to fix the whole line in the future! 
Also POTB did scrap a few nice ex-BN locos 
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Posted - July 23 2015 : 12:16:50 PM
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quote:I read they has plans to fix the whole line in the future!
Also POTB did scrap a few nice ex-BN locos
Originally posted by microbusss - July 23 2015 : 09:53:31 AM
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 They did. I also heard about them reopening the line, too, I think. Oh, and one interesting thing about that picture of the shed. You see that engine on the right side of the camera? That is the last mallet type locomotive in existence; Deep River Logging #7 "Shookum", built in 1909. They're working on restoring it to running order. http://www.oregoncoastscenic.org/ocsr-roster/deep-river-logging-7-skooku.html
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - July 23 2015 : 2:04:09 PM
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course I'd love to take a hand car on this line end to end 
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Posted - July 23 2015 : 5:21:30 PM
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quote:course I'd love to take a hand car on this line end to end
Originally posted by microbusss - July 23 2015 : 2:04:09 PM
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If you volunteered, maybe.
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Posted - July 23 2015 : 6:58:20 PM
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quote:You see that engine on the right side of the camera? That is the last mallet type locomotive in existence; Deep River Logging #7 "Shookum", built in 1909.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â July 23 2015Â :Â 12:16:50 PM
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There's another. The Black Hills Central (https://www.1880train.com/) has a Mallet. It's an interesting engine to hear. There's a really steep grade where you expect the stack to bark like a rifle, but with the compound expansion, the stack talk is still a fairly soft chuff.
Here's a movie of the thing:
https://youtu.be/Zcr51iNsZkI
Carpe Manana!
Edited by - scsshaggy on July 23 2015 7:04:55 PM
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Posted - July 24 2015 : 12:59:22 AM
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quote: quote:You see that engine on the right side of the camera? That is the last mallet type locomotive in existence; Deep River Logging #7 "Shookum", built in 1909.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â July 23 2015Â :Â 12:16:50 PM
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There's another. The Black Hills Central (https://www.1880train.com/) has a Mallet. It's an interesting engine to hear. There's a really steep grade where you expect the stack to bark like a rifle, but with the compound expansion, the stack talk is still a fairly soft chuff.
Here's a movie of the thing:
https://youtu.be/Zcr51iNsZkI
Originally posted by scsshaggy - July 23 2015 : 6:58:20 PM
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Oh, correction. This is the last 2-4-4-2 left in existence, that's what it really is. It's not the last articulated engine like it, it's just the last of that exact wheel configuration. Here's a Wikipedia article on that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-4-4-2
-Steve
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Posted - July 24 2015 : 1:01:34 PM
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quote:
There's another. The Black Hills Central (https://www.1880train.com/) has a Mallet. It's an interesting engine to hear. There's a really steep grade where you expect the stack to bark like a rifle, but with the compound expansion, the stack talk is still a fairly soft chuff.
Here's a movie of the thing:
https://youtu.be/Zcr51iNsZkI
Originally posted by scsshaggy - July 23 2015 : 6:58:20 PM
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yup true & I live close to it & I haven't gone to sees it!
Also I think the BHC needs to update the crossings with gates & lights
I wouldn't mind having that GP loco in HO scale
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Posted - July 27 2015 : 09:26:01 AM
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| Very nice photos. Thanks for sharing.
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Posted - July 27 2015 : 2:01:50 PM
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quote:| Very nice photos. Thanks for sharing.
Originally posted by wks - July 27 2015 : 09:26:01 AM
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Thank you, wks.Right off the bat, I might actually attempt to make that GP loco in H0. Just take an Athearn GP unit (blue box era), repaint the shell in those cow colors, put some custom yellow decals on there (I can get single lettering decals), and there you go.
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Posted - July 27 2015 : 6:21:02 PM
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the GP I wants in HO is the one on BHC hehe
May get pics from Hill City someday soon I hopes 
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 Posted - February 26 2020 : 2:47:04 PM
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Great that you posted photos of this railroad Stephen.
Another west coast railroad treasure that is too far for us.
Some videos found on the internet.
Not my videos. Great to see other railfans share their treasures with us.
Edited by - wks on February 26 2020 2:56:54 PM
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Posted - February 26 2020 : 3:45:44 PM
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One thing I found about this railroad as of recently is they finished restoring that locomotive that was in the shed I took a picture of. Here's the picture in case anyone is wondering.
The engine's name is "Skookum", and it's a 2-4-4-2 logging locomotive. They recently took it out for a test run before they apparently sent it to a man by the name of Chris Baldo in California. Here's a video of that loco running. So glad they finally got it running! When I was there, the tender was still cut off from the rest of the railway due to a flood that occurred that cut off access to the shed a little bit earlier.
-Steve
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