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Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association, Berryville, VA "Pageant of Steam" held each year the last full weekend in July [43] Soule’ Live Steam Festival and Railfest annual event held the first weekend in November in Meridian, MS. [44] Southeast Old Threshers' Reunion annual event held July 1-July 5 in Denton, NC [45]
The South Simcoe Railway is a steam heritage railway in Tottenham, Ontario, Canada. [1] Founded in 1992, the railway operates scenic rail excursions in the Beeton Creek valley of southern Ontario. It is the oldest operating steam heritage railway in Ontario and has the second-oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada. [2]
FGLK acquired the Ontario Central Railroad in October, 2007. [3] Previously, the line had been owned by the Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad. It consists of 13.3 miles (21.4 km) of ex-Lehigh Valley trackage that was part of the Sayre-Buffalo mainline that also makes up the Kendaia branch. The two railroads connect near Shortsville, New York.
It was conceived as a means of allowing Erie Canal passengers to quickly bypass the circuitous Cohoes Falls via steam powered trains. The railroad was incorporated on April 17, 1826, [1] as the Mohawk & Hudson Company and opened for public service on August 9, 1831. On April 19, 1847, the company name was changed to the Albany & Schenectady ...
Steam May 25, 1885: February 26, 1904 ... Ontario and San Antonio Heights Railroad Company: ... ♦ Orlando – Winter Park: Steam Dummy Line
However, some existing steam trains remained in service until the late 1950s. Engine 102 was frequently used in Work Train Service until its retirement in September 1959 and #42 was held for standby yard service until it was retired in December 1958. [9] Engine 42, restored in 1998, is now on display in Lindsay Memorial Park, in Lindsay ...
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New York Central 3001 (Alco #69338 of 1940): The largest surviving example of the NYC's modern steam power technology; only surviving L-3a class Mohawk; one of two surviving NYC 4-8-2 engines; one of the fastest locomotives of its time; primarily designed for mountain grades, it hauled passengers at speeds up to 80 mph (130 km/h) along the NYC's "Water Level Route" in the state of New York.