Fillmore and Western Railway Excursion Trains: Steam Locomotive 14, F7A, and more - CoasterFan2105
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Date: 2022-05-12
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EvanF1293
its ex duluth and north eastern 14. And here's its history as of now
14 was built by Baldwin in 1913 for the Duluth and Northeastern Railroad until the early 60-s when it was taken out of service. Around 1962, 14 was moved to the Black Hills Central Railroad (1880 train) in hill city South Dakota but never ran due to many reasons. It sat there until the dodge city Kansas railroad took it in the late 80-s early 90-s for the original purpose of restoring it. Again never happened, it just sat there to rust until 1999 when it-s current owner of the Fillmore and Western Railway Dave Wilkinson purchased the locomotive. It traveled to California by train on a flatcar and restoration started right away. Their biggest problems however were finding a way to switch it from an coal burner to an oil burner, but to their luck they found blueprints in Texas on how to. They acquired that and finished the restoration on December 5, 2010 when 14 steamed for the first time in nearly 50 years/5 decades. However in 2013 it went out of service due to some boiler sheet problems and after 2 years 14 came back into service in late 2015 continues to operate each year on the line mainly for their railfest event in late April, lador day weekend and around christmas time where 14 is dressed up with lights and goes all the way to a metrolink station.
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its ex duluth and north eastern 14. And here's its history as of now
14 was built by Baldwin in 1913 for the Duluth and Northeastern Railroad until the early 60-s when it was taken out of service. Around 1962, 14 was moved to the Black Hills Central Railroad (1880 train) in hill city South Dakota but never ran due to many reasons. It sat there until the dodge city Kansas railroad took it in the late 80-s early 90-s for the original purpose of restoring it. Again never happened, it just sat there to rust until 1999 when it-s current owner of the Fillmore and Western Railway Dave Wilkinson purchased the locomotive. It traveled to California by train on a flatcar and restoration started right away. Their biggest problems however were finding a way to switch it from an coal burner to an oil burner, but to their luck they found blueprints in Texas on how to. They acquired that and finished the restoration on December 5, 2010 when 14 steamed for the first time in nearly 50 years/5 decades. However in 2013 it went out of service due to some boiler sheet problems and after 2 years 14 came back into service in late 2015 continues to operate each year on the line mainly for their railfest event in late April, lador day weekend and around christmas time where 14 is dressed up with lights and goes all the way to a metrolink station.
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theUP844
nice video Mike, I got to visit the railroad myself earlier this year. By The Way, as for #14's previous owner, 14 came from the Duluth & Northeastern Railroad in Minnesota.
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nice video Mike, I got to visit the railroad myself earlier this year. By The Way, as for #14's previous owner, 14 came from the Duluth & Northeastern Railroad in Minnesota.
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Emerio
so, i recently heard that after fillmore and western was sold Sierra northern railroad bought it they also have plans to reconnect the tracks back to Santa Clarita
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so, i recently heard that after fillmore and western was sold Sierra northern railroad bought it they also have plans to reconnect the tracks back to Santa Clarita
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Rajappan
Which Filmore and western is that's? Travel tracker it has an amazing horn! Us acceptable the most important best regards of the weather.
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Which Filmore and western is that's? Travel tracker it has an amazing horn! Us acceptable the most important best regards of the weather.
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