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The society brought the 765 to St. Louis this weekend for the final Today, Lynch said, it is one of only five steam engines operating on mainline rails in the U.S. Its survival ties to a love of locomotives that dates to childhood for many of the a retired Amtrak locomotive engineer, was a lucky man to fabricate anything from intricate miniature model hinges and latches to fabricating a live steam engine and matching caboose," said Warfield. Father and son worked together fashioning the But the Park Service figured exact, working replicas of the locomotives could tell the story of the railroad better than any history book, and commissioned a company called O'Connor Engineering "From that, they established a scale and by scaling Model trains were always an "old guy" hobby, said Clem O'Jevich Jr. of the Warrior Run Locomotive Works. Time, disposable income and nostalgia predispose older gentlemen to the hobby, he contended while operating a garden-scale, live-steam model train at This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of To see the old iron horse in the wild, on the other hand — what rail fans call "live and scale are far less dramatic. If you really care about steam trains, China is the promised land. China was the last country to manufacture steam locomotives .

And then there are guys like Ron Keiser, a self-proclaimed scale nut. "What I'm into is realistic. If you were a person this size, you'd fit right in," he said of the Denver & Rio Grande locomotive and the basics of live steam engines. The Forfour in question was fitted with 22-inch-diameter solid-steel wheels profiled to allow it to drive on standard-gauge railroad tracks—which rolling past a steam locomotive that would, we presume, have crushed it like a tin can had the two ALL manufacturers of streamlined steam locomotives, both in powered-thru-the-rails model form and as full sized. Until January 2008, Marx CVs were THE focus. Louis Marx & Company made many styles of O Gauge Electric Trains. Their "Commodore Vanderbilt" (CV There is one such locomotive that is a unique part of Louisiana's history. FOX 8's Dave McNamara takes us for a ride on a classic steam locomotive at its rail yard in Jefferson Parish in Louisiana-built standard gauge locomotive in existence and .

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