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4501 - 25TH ANNIVERSARY - Former Southern Railway 2-8-2 number 4501 is the star of this pro- gram as we begin with historic film footage of 4501 as engine 12 on the Kentucky and Tennessee RR in the early 1960s. DVD 60 minutes $29.95


NORFOLK SOUTHERN STEAM VOL 1 - 4-8-4 Class J #611 and 2-6-6-4 #1218 on former Norfolk and Western trackage. This “Pure N&W” tape covers the system from Roanoke to Cincinnati and north from Portsmouth on the Columbus line. DVD 60 minutes $29.95


NORFOLK SOUTHERN STEAM VOL 2 - Lines and engines other than just former Norfolk and Western livery. One of the highlights is the four day Independence Limited from Bellevue to Roanoke with Nickel Plate Road #587 2-8-2 double-heading with N&W 611. DVD 60 minutes $29.95


NORFOLK SOUTHERN STEAM FREIGHTS A very unique video showing some of the NS engines on freight trips. DVD 45 minutes $29.95


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The resurrected Virginia & Truckee No. 22 sees occasional service at the museum. While the flywheel on the power truck is just for show, tiny samples of the original paint were discovered at various locations on the car, which allowed it to bear an authentic color scheme. The power (right) and trailing trucks were built at the museum’s Carson City shop.


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Steam in the Mountains


• Mount Rainier Scenic RR • Steam at Conway


• Durango & Silverton Photo Freight • Black Hills Central 2-6-6-2T • Mount Washington Cog RY Steam • Western Maryland 734 • Cumbres & Toltec Photo Freight • German Narrow Gauge Steam


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American Car & Foundry hired Hale & Kil- bourn as a subcontractor. After his design innovations met with skepticism from traditional carbuilders, McKeen turned to Hale & Kilbourn and Ed- ward G. Budd, who built the car’s shell out of pressed-steel stampings — apparently the first time anything of this size had used such material. When they began to appear in 1905, the McKeen cars represented the first practical application of the internal combustion engine to rail service. About 150 were built, mostly between 1908 and 1911. Among them was Virginia & Truckee Railway No. 22, intended for service be- tween Reno, Carson City, and — 15.6 miles south on the Railway’s four-year-old exten- sion from Carson City — the new town of Minden, Nev., in a rich agricultural area at the base of the Sierra Nevada. The V&T paid $22,000 for the 70-foot-long vehicle, which arrived from Omaha under its own power on May 9, 1910. Unfortunately, ingenious design and in- novative construction did not save McKeen cars from commercial failure. The 200-h.p. direct-drive gasoline engines, designed by the New Jersey-based Standard Motor Works, soon gave the cars a reputation for unreliability. The McKeen Motor Car Co., to which McKeen had devoted himself after July 1, 1908, was dissolved in 1920. McKeen cars which had been retrofitted with more efficient power plants, especially diesel en- gines, and more reliable forms of transmis- sion, however, went on to deliver decades of reliable service. Self-propelled passenger cars from other builders employed conven- tional carbody construction and mechani- cal or electric transmission. McKeen’s design innovations were laid


aside for more than a decade until railroad managers of the 1930s were searching for ways to stem the decade-long decline in the railroad passenger business that followed the rapid development of highways after World War I. In 1933 two western railroads planned passenger trains built of new al- loys and powered by internal combustion


with electric transmissions. These light, fast trains would look very different from conventional steam trains. The Union Pa- cific placed its order with the Pullman Car & Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, while the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy turned to the Philadelphia-based Edward G. Budd Company. Both builders incorporated structural features which had been pio- neered in McKeen motor cars. By the time V&T car No. 22 made its fi-


nal trip in revenue service on October 31, 1945, it was believed to be the only McKeen motor car still powered by its original en- gine. Its carbody had been modified from its original configuration, with much of its passenger space converted to Railway Post Office and express compartments in 1932. The V&T sold the carbody for $1000 in


1946 after removing and scrapping the trucks, power plant, and air and fuel tanks. During the 50 years between then and 1996, when it was donated to the museum, the carbody was modified further to con- form to the needs of its successive uses as a diner, lounge, pottery shop, and plumbing supply store. Although enough of the body remained


to justify a thorough rehabilitation, so much was missing that restoring it to its as-built appearance was no more difficult than any other option. Rebuilding the car involved replacing much of the body fram- ing and sheet metal below the window line. One bulkhead and several roof panels where vents had been added or doorways raised were also replaced. The floor, com- posed of sheet steel, sound deadening ma- terial, and maple, is entirely new. More than 5000 rivets were replaced. The car’s original hot water heating sys-


tem had been replaced with coal stoves in the 1920s. Because the car is not expected to operate in winter, the museum installed no heating system. However, in accordance with the goal of presenting the car as it looked when it was new, the chases for the original circulating system were replicated. Distinctive air scoops collect air for ventila-


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