Only limited updated until 6 October 2017 due to holidays
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The ‘Slim Princess’, engine No. 18, a 3ft gauge 4-6-0 built by Baldwin as works No. 37395 in 1911 for the Nevada California Oregon Railroad (NCO). Originally built as No.12, the loco worked the NCO until 1926 when, along with engines Nos. 8 and 9, was transferred to the Southern Pacific ’Mina Branch’ here, it took the identity of No. 18. It worked from Mina, Nevada to Keeler, California until 16 February 1938 when it worked the last narrow gauge train south from Mina. From then, until retirement in October 1954, No.18 worked the 73 miles from Laws to Keeler in California. The loco was eventually replaced by a narrow gauge diesel. No. 18 was then donated to the City of Independence, where it was displayed for 62 years in Dehy Park. In recent years the loco has been the subject of major restoration, and in June 2017 was moved to a new undercover shed building in the city. Throughout 2017 the loco and tender were restored to fully operational condition with the prime aim of transporting the loco by road to the Laws Railway Museum in Bishop, a few miles north, to take part in the ‘Slim Princess Reunion’ over the weekend of 22-24 September 2017. Everything went to plan and Southern Pacific No. 18 returned to the only remaining SP narrow gauge track for the event, meeting resident sister loco No. 9 based at the Laws Railroad Museum. This was the first time in 63 years that the loco operated a train. For the event, passengers travelled in former SP ‘crummy' coach No. 401. The picture shows the loco departing from Laws station on a short demonstration run.
Colin J. Marsden
Colin J. Marsden
The Railways of Dawlish Calendar 2018
The Railways of Dawlish 2018 Calendar is now available. One month per page with high quality imges of modern traction and steam trains passing along the iconic South Devon Sea Wall.
Images for 2018 include:
Heritage liveried HST
Class 68
Class 143
Class 800
Class 153
Class 150
Class 67
Great Western HST
Class 57/3
Classs 70
Steam
Class 150/0
Western D1015
Available in UK Only
Images for 2018 include:
Heritage liveried HST
Class 68
Class 143
Class 800
Class 153
Class 150
Class 67
Great Western HST
Class 57/3
Classs 70
Steam
Class 150/0
Western D1015
Available in UK Only
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Feedback from visitors is important to us, so if you have any comments or suggestions please drop us an e-mail. Much further expansion to this site is in the pipeline, much of which follows reader comment. We have no intention whatsoever to introduce any form of charges, log in or password system, allowing users easy site access at all times. All our main services are free. In the future, we will be producing a limited number of e-books - these will of course be chargeable on a one-off basis and be viewable on all modern computer and iPad equipment. Watch here for details.
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The Railway Centre.Com are always looking for quality digital images for use as Picture of the Day. If you have any suitable item, preferably with a news content, please submit as an e-mail attachment in a jpg format to railwaycentre@gmail.com Please do not reduce your image to less than 1600 pixals in width and please do not add text or graphics to the image. Remember to include as much information about the picture as possible, including the loco/unit number, train, date and location, plus your name. We are also willing to include personal website details at the end of the picture credit.
