Steamtown pictures

Great Photos, thanks!

Leo (pearland, tx)

nice photos especially the 4-6-6-4 big boy my great uncles worked for the Rock Island lines in the Silvis shops. one was a tinsmith who could weld aluminum with a torch and the other was a machinist. the machinist said that they used to start a cut on one of the driver wheels and sit down to read the morning paper because of length of time it took to turn the wheel. my father was a go-fer for the machinist uncle in the early forties. he said that he had worked in teardown, the boiler section, and runoff. the runoff he said that they pulled the engine outside and greased the track down, then laid the power to the wheels to get them spinning.

Thanks.

I don't doubt it- those drivers are HUGE!

-Carl

Nice Pictures Carl. I used to live in Scranton by the way.