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News Items emailed, encountered, or otherwise provided to us that may be of interest to our visitors.

Added 15″ Gauge Crown 4-4-0 in Sanborn, NY

While browsing youtube.com we discovered a 15″ gauge Crown 4-4-0 that wasn’t in our database. It is located in Sanborn, NY at the Harris Steam Farm and is operational. You can view a video clip of the locomotive here: Harris Steam Farm 4-4-0

Ann Harris of Harris Steam Farm was kind enough to provide us with a very nice photo of this locomotive, which is now included on our site, and when I’m happy to display here:

New Haven Trap Rock 0-4-0T No. 38

11 Dec

The photo we’ve display for New Haven Trap Rock 0-4-0T No. 38 at North Branford, CT was taken by Mike DelVecchio in the early 1990′s. It is shown below:

Site visitor Josh Ciastko was kind enough to supply us with new photographs showing the locomotive in its current condition:

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Milwaukee Road 261 – Another Day at the Office

10 Dec

December 9th, 2011 and Milwaukee Road 261 and its drivers are once again connected. Ralph Back was kind enough to provide Steve Sandberg with these photos of the locomotive being placed back on its wheels. As usual TVRM did a beautiful job of profiling and quartering the drivers. The quality, the excellence of the work of the 261 is evident in each of these photos by Ralph Back.