The only remaining operable "streamlined" steam locomotive of the Art Deco era.

[treasurefiend]

The only remaining operable "streamlined" steam locomotive of the Art Deco era.

This is just outside of Chicago in a forest preserve - I was out MD'ng this morning with Silvergurl and we didn't find anything so we decided to call it a day. On the way home we saw lots of people lined up along the RR tracks so we asked them whats going on. We were told that an old steam engine was gonna be coming along any minute so we raced back to the woods far away from all of the crowds. We had some time to kill so we walked up to an older man that had 3 or 4 cameras setup and asked some questions. He was more than happy to share his love of trains with us and even showed us some previous videos of this particular train. Here is my video, enjoy.

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[Tank69]

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beautiful grand old lady for sure , thanks thats cool

 

[Detectingfreak]

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Glad you had a great hunt! That's a shame you didn't find anything, but at least you got to see a great train!

 

[lostcauses]

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Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Kiwijohn]

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That is one serious and beautiful piece of machinery

 

[briankb70]

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your lucky
I love old trains,the sounds and smell
my 500th post

 

[allen]

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wtg on that nice video !!

 

[kansas coin hunter]

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hey fiend and sliver gurl that train reminds of the hank williams song called the pan amrican , way cool dude love your vids keep it low and slow kansas coin hunter

 

[kilmer]

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Wow, does it get any better than that. I love these things and it is so rare to see one nowadays. Years ago two of them ran occasionally in the Midwest and my kids and I chased them shooting still photos whenever we could. My four year old ran into the house one day and told me he heard a steam whistle and we jumped in the car and took off. Sure enough, the little guy was right and we enjoyed a full speed pass of one of these awesome trains. Thanks for the memories.

HH, Don

 

[froggy38383]

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Nice video thank you