These are only available on short tourist lines and on lightly traveled
track of major railroads. As a matter of fact, there is an impeccably
restored Santa Fe steam locomotive in southern California, one of the
largest passenger engines in their history, and BNSF, owner of the former
ATSF won't let it run on their tracks. Liability concerns, which translates
too many lawyers on staff, too little to do. The UP has a whole fleet of
historic engines and cars and they run trains almost annually.
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From: Chris Barker
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 2:33 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Steam trains running this summer
That sounds great, Bill, but probably unworkable in the mad world of British
railways.
You see, the blimmin' Conservative Government of the 1990s sold the railways
to a very small number of companies, some to run the rolling-stock, one to
run the rail. It now costs a huge amount of money to hire the rolling-stock
and another huge amount to run it on a given stretch of railway line. To
stop on a railway line would probably cost a fortune, even if there were the
time to do so in the first place (before the next expensive train came
along).
Rant complete . . .
Chris
On 9 Jul 2013, at 18:15, "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good excursion train operators offer photo run-bys. They pick a
> particularly
> photogenic spot along the trip and stop the train, all the photographers
> get
> off, the train backs up and the comes steaming past the gathering. They
> then
> back up and pick everyone up and all are happy.
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