When in mid 2010 we learned that three Southern Railway Consolidation type steam locomotives were to be returning to operation, we began making plans to film all three. Between April and July 2011, we did just that. The result is "Southern Steam Returns."
The first part of the program covers Southern Railway #154, an 1890 product of the Schenectady Locomotive Works that returned to operation in July, 2010, on The Three Rivers Rambler in Knoxville, Tennessee. Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good, and we got lucky as we were scouting the line as #154 made an unpublicized shakedown run the day before the first passenger trains ran. In addition to the passenger consist, a string of vintage freight cars was tied to the tender. The following day we shot three runs of The Rambler as it traversed the line between downtown Knoxville, including the two percent grade east of town.
The second part of the program covers Southern Railway #401, a 1907 Baldwin operating at t |
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