I spent All Day Saturday following ex Canadian National Locomotive #7470 for a special "Steam in the Snow" event. We had a great Day Photographing and Video recording the Event. Temps were 9 to 19 degrees. The Snow was fresh. This has been an annual event for the last 7 or 8 years. This will be the last one for some time as #7470 is going to be torn down for a Boiler Inspection. So I don't know when She will return to the Rails. Here's the video link.. Enjoy

http://youtu.be/Ax7TbMWu8o0

This is a video of Conway Scenic Railroad Gp7 pulling Steam locomotive #7470  before it heads back to North Conway under Her own power on the return trip.

Here's the link,Feel free to comment..

http://youtu.be/ejb7zamdHtE

Yesterday was the "Steam in the Snow" event at the Conway Scenic Railroad. I followed the train and shot some pretty good video along the route. There was quite a large crowd following along as well. It was a pretty nice Day for chasing Trains in the mountains.Here's a photo

Here's the video.
http://youtu.be/cOT7pQQSGKo

Today was National Train Day so I grabbed My camera and headed down to Boston's South Station Where they had station tours and an Acela train on display...

One of the structures the Great Western Railroad had in it's Loveland Colorado yard was a double spout water tank. I desperately needed  to model this for My Ho scale GW layout. I have searched for a long time looking for a wood kit that I could afford. I was very fortunate to find a complete unopened Sheepscott Scale models water tank at a local Train show last fall. It still needs the roof  which I haven't started and also it came with only 8 hoop fasteners so I have ordered a package of 99 fasteners from my LHS. Here is a photo of My progress so far..

Today I placed the cork roadbed under the tracks in the Loveland Yard. It looks pretty good and yes it did quiet down the noise when running trains on it. I also removed those ugly switch machines on the two Atlas turnouts that had them.

I have started My new Great Western Railroad in a small bedroom. It will be along 3 walls . I have the track  for the GW Shops and the GW Sugar factory laid down and so I ran My first train today.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7x3xwxoFv8