Mark Roberts wrote: > Adam Maas wrote: > > >>SJ wrote: >> >>>there are a couple of 'heritage' tracks (mostly to hill stations) in >>>india which still use steam (mostly for tourism these days) but until >>>very recently we had a lot of steam locomotives running around. >>> >>>you might find this interesting: >>> >>>http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-steam.html >>> >>>regards, subash >> >>India did, and so did the Chinese, who only dieselized in the last 5-10 >>years. Some rather interesting big steam designs over there as well. > > > My sentimental favorite steam line runs to my hometown - or the closest > thing I have to a hometown, given how much my family has moved around - > in Devon: The Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, which runs between > Paignton and Kingswear, where we lived when I was young. It even has a > Wkikpedia entry now: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paignton_and_Dartmouth_Steam_Railway > but better photos here: > http://www.steampics.com/html/pdr.html > > I have a shot of one of the engines somewhere that I've posted on line > a couple of times. I'll have to dig it up again. > >
My personal favourite is the Kettle Valley Steam Train, which runs on a 16 km segment (the only remaining tracks) of the Kettle Valley RR north-west of Penticton BC. Sadly, the tracks are gone east of Penticton through the Carmi Sub, which was one of the most interesting pieces of standard gauge railroad in North America, having grades and curves worthy of a Colorado Narrow Gauge RR. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
