Steam Trains and Kilts .. it doesn't get much better!

[Mike_Oettle]

Great pics, Nighthawk!
That side tank loco looks interesting, especially since it is standing on a piece of rack rail track.
When the line from Delagoa Bay (now Maputo) to Pretoria was first built, the route chosen for climbing the Drakensberg escarpment was by means of a rack rail line linking the stations Waterval Boven and Waterval Onder, going through a tunnel.
The tunnel has long since been replaced by a more modern piece of engineering, but one can hike through it.
The snow plough looks like a museum piece – has it been replaced by something more modern?

And Dutchy, how could anyone have taken you for an Amish?
I suppose it takes all kinds . . .
By the way, I like your answer to the bagpipe question
Regards,
Mike

[Santa Wally]

Steamtown National Historic Site is in Scranton PA is another place of interest for steam train enthusiasts. The website is: http://www.nps.gov/stea/index.htm I have not personally been there so I can't say anything about it.

[Woodsman]

Steamtown is great. I haven't done it kilted yet but now I'm inspired. Kilts and steam engines look great together. Plenty of steam engines to pose by in Scranton. If you go, across town is Lackawanna coal mine. An underground tour puts you in a 52 degree coal mine year round. That would be fun kilted too.

[Nighthawk]

Great pics, Nighthawk!
That side tank loco looks interesting, especially since it is standing on a piece of rack rail track.
When the line from Delagoa Bay (now Maputo) to Pretoria was first built, the route chosen for climbing the Drakensberg escarpment was by means of a rack rail line linking the stations Waterval Boven and Waterval Onder, going through a tunnel.
The tunnel has long since been replaced by a more modern piece of engineering, but one can hike through it.
The snow plough looks like a museum piece – has it been replaced by something more modern?
Regards,
Mike

The side tanker was designed to climb Long's Peak. That's the reason for the track. It goes up about a 40 degree angle. That snow plow is a museum now, but there is a snow plow that has not been replaced. It's part of a living, functioning museum, called the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, which is a narrow gauge mountain line that was completed at the turn of the century, and runs as a tourist line now with most of the original rolling stock.