Backyard Railroads

[J3a-614]

 
Who needs little electric models when you can have something like these in your back yard?  Of course, you kind of need a larger than normal back yard, , ,

http://www.wchstv.com/traveling/2008/twv080612.shtml

Slide show variation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhJs9lDHjGk

Newspaper story.

http://starbeacon.com/currents/x343672787/Last-train-from-Locust-Heights

Foster Brook & State Line contractor's Shay, 24" gauge; this was a stock engine offered by Lima for construction work; besides its small size, it is notable in that the three cylinders are cast in a large single block.  Only five were built; this is the last one in existence, now in Pennsylvania.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgOZAr2bbgQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYc2zAcNZfQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Vkr2VFSz0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5b1RyTTQlM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mX3wdLlEWE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3VrFPe9ML8&feature=related

Linked from Railway Preservation News:

http://server.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=29351

http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,107371,107371#msg-107371

http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/file.php?1,file=2410

http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/file.php?1,file=2411

http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/file.php?1,file=2412

http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,107371,107373#msg-107373

http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,107371,107433#msg-107433

http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,107371,107434#msg-107434

Have fun.