TOP LEFT: Between steam runs both CSX and Norfolk Southern entertained the crowd with frequent freights. A CSX westbound rolls past the Lake Shore Railway Museum’s South Shore “Little Joe.” NS runs on the former Nickel Plate off to the right. TOP RIGHT: The Little Joe was also part of the steam weekend night photo session. You will need to check the rule book to see what a green-over-yellow-over-red indication means. ABOVE: A lone American soldier hides under a bridge as a top secret German supply train passes overhead. This World War II scene was set up on the privately owned Bucksgahuda & Western Railroad near St. Mary’s, Penn., by NetzlofDesign.
the park and headed for our next small- steam destination.
As mentioned earlier, Nick Hovey
was looking for a Sunday location for another night photo session and found just the place near St. Mary’s, Penn., on the privately owned two-foot gauge Bucksgahuda & Western
Railroad,
where NetzlofDesign was putting to- gether a shoot. This
family-owned railroad’s pri-
mary power is a German 0-4-0T built by Henschel in 1939. It proudly wears No. 1 on the railroad and has been nick- named Otto. What was most disap-
pointing was that names aside, the en- gine bears little resemblance to our as- sociate editor. [Very funny, Steve. Now get back to work. —O.M.V.]
With the German locomotive on the property, the idea came about to do some World War II scenes. Thus, through the magic of vinyl, Otto re- ceived lettering for the period appropri- ate Deutsche Reichsbahn and was cou- pled to a flat car carrying a load that kind of resembled the treasure from Raiders of the Lost Ark. The short train
was parked on the railroad’s bridge and the final touches were adding a couple of German troops to the flat car and a lone American soldier hiding out under the bridge. Was the American spying, caught behind enemy lines, or prepar- ing to sabotage the top secret train? Once we were finished there it was time to head home. Remarkably, over the course of a little more than 24 hours we had shot four live 0-4-0T’s (both of the Cedar Point 2-4-0s started life as 0- 4-0T’s) of three different gauges. Steam, stars and roller coasters — what a trip!
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