Heading to Bittercreek + Western Live Steamers

[bigboy4010]

I'm heading out to the the live steam railroad, Bittercreek +Western for their narrow guage meet, seeing as my family has a nice little 2.5" scale T-boiler shay. I know there are some people here who are into live steaming, so maybe I'll bump into some of you. That'd be neat. I'll be back at the end of Sunday, I assume. Hope anyone who is coming has a good time.

 

[bigboy4010]

That was a wonderful trip. If anyone in the trainz community had the chance to come, I'm quite sure they would say the same. It's a beautiful railroad, and the engines there were magnificent. Here's some pics of some of the engines that showed up there.

This is our engine. We've had her for about three years now. She's a Mich-Cal type shay at 2.5" scale (3ft gauge to scale) though the train behind her is scaled at 1.5" scale, standard gauge.

The engine on the left was a 4.5" scale engine, so to scale it runs on 20" gauge track. It's modeled after a sugar cane engine in Australia.

The engine on the left is a 3" scale engine, so it's modeled to 30" gauge. The engine in the middle is 3.75" scale, so its modeled to 2ft guage, and the engine on the right is a 2.5" scale, so its modeled to 3ft gauge. Some of you may recognize it as Colorado and Southern #18.