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| Date taken: August 1998 |
| Location: Turtle Creek Valley Railway in Lebanon, Ohio |
| Comments: Our family rode the Turtle Creek Valley Railroad (formerly
the Indiana & Ohio Scenic Railroad). We visited the depot gift shop
which has typical railfan items (including TCVRy stuff) and some items
of general interest to the railfans. We then boarded the train and
sat down in one of the coaches. We later moved to one of the open
cars which made the 15 mph ride much more exciting. At the half-way
point, the train stopped, and the fireman proceeded to the back of the
last coach, which has been outfitted with an air horn and a locomotive
headlight. The train then backed back to the depot. The full ride took
just over an hour.
Locomotive info: Locomotive #55 is a GP-7, built by General Motors Electromotive Division in 1950. It was number four of the second run by EMD. The locomotive has a "567" prime mover, which has sixteen cylinders, each displacing 567 cubic inches, and is not turbocharged. |