Preserved Railway Thread

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Noot Noot we're older than you!

>>1072885
That's the Furness Railway No. 20, the oldest standard gauge locomotive still operating in Britain (the year 1865, iirc).

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Sittingbourne And Kemsley Light Railway. This locomotive is one of theirs called Leader.

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Bowes Railway, Tyne and Wear built by George Stephenson in 1826.

Advertised as 'The World's Only Standard Gauge Cable Railway' which is a thing worth mentioning I suppose.

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>>1073062
This is our oldest operating steam locomotive, Isle of Man Steam Railway's No. 4 Loch. It's a Beyer Peacock 2-4-0 Tank (3ft Narrow Gauge) built in 1874 and still going. The locomotives boiler certificate expired in 2015 though so it's getting a new one at the moment.

>>1073119
The cable-powered portion of the line is non-functional, iirc.
>>1073180
3 ft gauge is all the rage.

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Diesel railcar number X 3837, formerly from the French National Railway, built in 1952.

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>>1072885
The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad started out as 3 foot narrow gauge line in the Colorado Rockies that had roughly 2000 miles of narrow gauge main line. There are two Narrow gauge remnants of the D&RGW left in eservice that run similar equipment. The first is the Durango and Silverton that runs on a 45 mile stretch of restored narrow gauge main line. The second is the Cumbres and Toltec which operates on a 64 mile stretch of the preserved San Juan line between southern Colorado and Norther New Mexico.

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>>1075734
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, a D&GRW narrow gauge remnant.

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>>1075740
Rio Grande Scenic Railroad, a D&RGW standard gauge branch line remnant still in service.

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>>1075741
Royal Gorge Route Railroad, Another standard gauge D&RGW remnant.

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>>1073300
There's quite a bit of 3 foot gauge still active in the U.S. It would be something to see Euro equipment operating here, even if it was on a temporary basis. There is a lot of standard and narrow gauge steam still operational here.

>>1075744
Norfolk and Southern Office Car Special. Full restored and modernized A-B-B-A Electro Motive F Units along with restored coaches from former Norfolk and Western trains such as The Crusader, Pocahontas and Powhatan Arrow.

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>>1075749
And, forgot pic.