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Viewing Album:  Sunrise Strasburg Steam and a Day Out with Thomas
 
By:Jim Stanton
Dates:8/1/2012 - 11/16/2012
Album Info:I've been lucky enough to have the chance to see operations at dawn as the staff at Strasburg Rail Road get the locomotives ready for a day of work. I also got to take my son out to ride the rails with Thomas the Tank Engine built by the wizards of SRC. Enjoy!
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Slumbering Steam
Title:  Slumbering Steam
Description:  Ex-Great Western 90 and ex-Norfolk Western 475 are banked for the night inside the engine house at Strasburg Rail Road.
Photo Date:  8/1/2012  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:44:16 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Night,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  SRC 90(2-10-0) SRC 475(4-8-0)
Views:  367   Comments: 1
Slumbering Steam
Title:  Slumbering Steam
Description:  Ex-Great Western 90 and ex-Norfolk Western 475 are banked for the night inside the engine house at Strasburg Rail Road.
Photo Date:  8/1/2012  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:45:13 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Night,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  SRC 90(2-10-0) SRC 475(4-8-0)
Views:  321   Comments: 0
Slumbering Steam
Title:  Slumbering Steam
Description:  Steam and smoke fill the engine house at Strasburg Rail Road as ex-Great Western 90 is tended to before a morning freight run.
Photo Date:  8/1/2012  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:45:42 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Night,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  SRC 90(2-10-0)
Views:  238   Comments: 0
Slumbering Steam
Title:  Slumbering Steam
Description:  Ex-Great Western 90 is backed out of the engine house at Strasburg Rail Road before a morning freight run.
Photo Date:  8/1/2012  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:46:36 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  SRC 90(2-10-0)
Views:  251   Comments: 1
Leaman Place pickup
Title:  Leaman Place pickup
Description:  Ex-Great Western 90 starts to pull away from Leaman Place and heads back to Strasburg Rail Road's station.
Photo Date:  8/1/2012  Upload Date: 1/13/2013 1:01:36 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SRC 90(2-10-0)
Views:  216   Comments: 0
Another Day at the Office
Title:  Another Day at the Office
Description:  A Strasburg Rail Road engineer works a valve on Ex-Great Western 90 as it picks up a load of freight at Leaman Place.
Photo Date:  8/1/2012  Upload Date: 1/12/2013 8:34:45 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  InCab,Steam
Locomotives:  SRC 90(2-10-0)
Views:  214   Comments: 0
Nature's Tunnel
Title:  Nature's Tunnel
Description:  Ex-Great Western 90 returns from Leaman Place with a load of freight early one overcast morning. Looking from Esbenshade Road, the trees around Groundhog Cut seem to form a natural "tunnel" around tracks.
Photo Date:  8/1/2012  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:47:27 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Steam,Track,Action
Locomotives:  SRC 90(2-10-0)
Views:  184   Comments: 1
Natures Tunnel
Title:  Natures Tunnel
Description:  Ex-Great Western 90 returns from Leaman Place with a load of freight early one overcast morning. Looking from Esbenshade Road, the trees around Groundhog Cut seem to form a natural "tunnel" around tracks.
Photo Date:  8/1/2012  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:47:58 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  SRC 90(2-10-0)
Views:  165   Comments: 0
Title: 
Description:  Ex-Great Western 90 has returned from Leaman Place with a load of freight and is seen switching tracks so the cars can be shuffled around the yard.
Photo Date:  8/1/2012  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:48:31 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SRC 90(2-10-0)
Views:  180   Comments: 1
Thomas and his friends
Title:  Thomas and his friends
Description:  Thomas The Tank Engine (former BEDT 15) pushes coaches full of children and their families past the Red Caboose Motel outside of Strasburg, PA.
Photo Date:  9/22/2012  Upload Date: 1/12/2013 1:24:12 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SRC 1(0-6-0)
Views:  450   Comments: 1
Thomas lets off some steam
Title:  Thomas lets off some steam
Description:  Thomas The Tank Engine (former BEDT 15) lets off some steam while pushing tourists through the Lancaster County countryside.
Photo Date:  9/22/2012  Upload Date: 1/12/2013 1:24:44 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  SRC 1(0-6-0)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
Thomas the Tank Engine
Title:  Thomas the Tank Engine
Description:  Thomas The Tank Engine (former BEDT 15) pulls passengers past the Red Caboose Motel.
Photo Date:  9/22/2012  Upload Date: 1/12/2013 1:25:09 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  SRC 1(0-6-0)
Views:  645   Comments: 0
Great Western 90
Title:  Great Western 90
Description:  Ex-Great Western 90 starts to pull away from Groff's Grove and heads back to Strasburg Rail Road's station.
Photo Date:  9/22/2012  Upload Date: 1/12/2013 1:25:45 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  SRC 90(2-10-0)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
Great Western 90
Title:  Great Western 90
Description:  Ex-Great Western 90 starts to pull away from Groff's Grove and heads back to Strasburg Rail Road's station.
Photo Date:  9/22/2012  Upload Date: 1/12/2013 1:26:18 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Station,Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  SRC 90(2-10-0)
Views:  247   Comments: 0
Yard Limit
Title:  Yard Limit
Description:  The yard limit sign at the eastern edge of the Strasburg Rail Road yard.
Photo Date:  9/22/2012  Upload Date: 1/12/2013 1:26:49 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  102   Comments: 0
The Dawn Patrol
Title:  The Dawn Patrol
Description:  SRC 8618 pulls a solo boxcar back from Leaman Place during a weekday morning freight run.
Photo Date:  11/16/2012  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:50:37 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SRC 8618(SW8)
Views:  295   Comments: 2
Thomas the Napping Engine
Title:  Thomas the Napping Engine
Description:  Thomas The Tank Engine (former BEDT 15) rests in the Strasburg Rail Road engine house before a Day Out With Thomas pulling children and their families.
Photo Date:  11/16/2012  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:49:32 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Night,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  SRC 1(0-6-0)
Views:  857   Comments: 0
SRC 8618
Title:  SRC 8618
Description:  SRC 8618 idles before dawn outside the engine house at Strasburg Rail Road.
Photo Date:  11/16/2012  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:50:02 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Jim Stanton
Categories:  Night,Yard
Locomotives:  SRC 8618(SW8)
Views:  203   Comments: 1

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