Olean
This video is about Olean in 2017. Steam locomotive No. 4 Semeru was available for a charter and having dumped the new tourist carriage pretending to be a second tender, we rode out with the empties in the morning. Being a charter, we also brought the empties back late morning along with a permanent way crew and a set of points. In the afternoon, we watched No. 4 go out light engine to the fields north of Duwit to the west of the mill. The remaining field lines at Olean are very limited and the state of them meant we could only go so far with the steam loco and full cane wagons were ferried to the loco to make a short train which we followed back towards the mill. For Olean, this charter worked quite well and I wonder why we didn’t chase the train until closer to the mill as the spark effects were just beginning and might have got better.
Olean’s field lines are in terminal decline and what in the 1990s required a fleet of 4 steam and 2 small diesels can now be handled by 3 small diesels one of which is required as the mill shunter.
Credits: John Raby
Olean’s field lines are in terminal decline and what in the 1990s required a fleet of 4 steam and 2 small diesels can now be handled by 3 small diesels one of which is required as the mill shunter.
Credits: John Raby
This video is about Olean in 2017. Steam locomotive No. 4 Semeru was available for a charter and having dumped the new tourist carriage pretending to be a second tender, we rode out with the empties in the morning. Being a charter, we also brought the empties back late morning along with a permanent way crew and a set of points. In the afternoon, we watched No. 4 go out light engine to the fields north of Duwit to the west of the mill. The remaining field lines at Olean are very limited and the state of them meant we could only go so far with the steam loco and full cane wagons were ferried to the loco to make a short train which we followed back towards the mill. For Olean, this charter worked quite well and I wonder why we didn’t chase the train until closer to the mill as the spark effects were just beginning and might have got better.
Olean’s field lines are in terminal decline and what in the 1990s required a fleet of 4 steam and 2 small diesels can now be handled by 3 small diesels one of which is required as the mill shunter.
Credits: John Raby
Olean’s field lines are in terminal decline and what in the 1990s required a fleet of 4 steam and 2 small diesels can now be handled by 3 small diesels one of which is required as the mill shunter.
Credits: John Raby