Narrow Gauge Steam Engine

[stoneylonesome]

Connecticut Antique Machinery Associations restored Baldwin Narrow guage steam engine

http://www.bytegallery.com/data/3189/40CAMA_Stm22.jpg

Of course whats an Engine without an Engineer? :lol:

http://www.bytegallery.com/data/3189/40CAMA_Stm23.jpg

for some background and history on this you can go to this link
http://www.ctamachinery.com/3footrailroad.html

[cjm]

Boy that's one small train! Maybe it's the little brother of this one?
http://members.shaw.ca/cmphotos2/PictureTakerPics/TrainFtEd_01.jpg

Interesting shots though. Thanks for sharing. :)

[stoneylonesome]

Could be the smaller cousin :lol: Actually this Engine at one time worked the sugar cane fields in Hawaii.

[Ballen Photo]

Actually this Engine at one time worked the sugar cane fields in Hawaii.
WOW! That had to be fairly expensive to load that locomotive onto a ship, sail it here, and then truck it across country to your neck of the woods. :shock:
Nice shots. I like that the "Engineer" was included. :D
-Bruce

[Belmondo]

When I first looked at the picture, I thought it was so tiny it might be a 2-ft. narrow gauge engine which were fairly common in New England. I see that it's actually 3-ft, and that was a little surprising until I saw it came from Hawaii.

Great photos. Thanks for posting them.

[stoneylonesome]

That had to be fairly expensive to load that locomotive onto a ship, sail it here
Don't forget it was built here and shipped to Hawaii first, talk about an expensive round trip. :lol: :lol:

Thanks all for the comments. Tom this is an all volunteer group who year by year are laying more track down to a lower parking area so when they have there big Fall open house they can use the train to shuttle people up to the grounds. Can't wait. :lol: :lol:

[PhotosGuy]

Nice shots!

[Skip Souza]

Excellent capture of a charming machine.

[thomascanty]

Nice looking engine! It does look really tiny...

[cjm]

Don't forget it was built here and shipped to Hawaii first, talk about an expensive round trip. :lol: :lol: Ha Ha Ha good point! Man that would be expensive.

[RockOne]

Nice photos. Looks like a well kept machine. Didn't realise that Hawaii even had a railway - I guess they we're small to keep the transport costs from the mainland to a minimum ?

[Belmondo]

Nice photos. Looks like a well kept machine. Didn't realise that Hawaii even had a railway - I guess they we're small to keep the transport costs from the mainland to a minimum ?

Most of the railroads in hawaii were related to agriculture, and were used to haul pineapples and sugar cane. I suspect the decision to build narrow gauge was based more on economic considerations than on physical or geographical lmitations.

One of the more famous (locally) trains to be exported from Hawaii to the mainland belonged to Ward Kimball. He was Walt Disney's #2 man for most of the glory years, and actually built a small railroad on his own property using actual equipment brought over from Hawaii.

BTW, Ward Kimabll was a very interesting person in his own right, and in some ways, one of the reasons Disney did as well as he did.

[stoneylonesome]

One of the more famous (locally) trains to be exported from Hawaii to the mainland belonged to Ward Kimball. He was Walt Disney's #2 man for most of the glory years, and actually built a small railroad on his own property using actual equipment brought over from Hawaii.

Tom: that's very interesting, I was wondering was it Ward that was behind the trains at both Disneyland and Disneyworld? Are they not 3' gauge or are the the 2'?

[stoneylonesome]

Thought I'd post a couple more views of the engine to help show the small size of it.

Head on. Maybe small but I still wouldn't want to get hit by it
http://www.bytegallery.com/data/3189/40stm20.jpg

another side view
http://www.bytegallery.com/data/3189/40stm18.jpg

[Belmondo]

Tom: that's very interesting, I was wondering was it Ward that was behind the trains at both Disneyland and Disneyworld? Are they not 3' gauge or are the the 2'?

It was a passion he shared with Walt, and I know he was involved with it, although to what extent, I can't say. Walt had a live steam railroad on his property, but it was 1 1/2" scale (7 1/4" gauge)

This is a good site to read about Walt, his trains, and some of his train buddies.

http://www.carolwood.com/_start.html

[BottomBracket]

Great pictures! I like the garb of the engineer, makes it all really authentic.

[marie]

they are beautiful shots Sandy
you caught the atmosphere well
the colours too are lovely
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did you shoot raw ?
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[stoneylonesome]

Yup even in the rain I shoot in RAW. :lol: :lol: :lol: All the shots I took that day were done in RAW format. I will say they are big files. almost twice the size of the best JEPG file. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: