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Cab Ride In A 1912 Hiesler Locomotive

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Uploaded by on Sep 15, 2009

Not to aften you get a cab ride on a 1912 Hiesler, but then a again its not to aften you see an apporating hiesler. If any ones interested this is at the Silver Creek & Stephenson Railroad running on some of the ex MILW mainline in Freeport Illinois, and the red caboose in the end is the oldest in Illinois.

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  • I have been invited to fire this locomotive in October.

  • Awsome!

  • Looking at Google Street View, I cannot find any public road crossings of this line and it appears to no longer have a connection to the CN Iowa Div. which looks like the only other surviving rail line in Freeport.

  • Yeah, they don't cross any roads, they honk for the bridges.

  • neat stuff!

    sounds like fun

  • It was pretty cool, and I got to talk to a crew member from the MILW 261.

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  • thats got to be awesome to operate these old girls

  • @HighIronofWisconsin

    They bought only 1.7 miles of the Milwaukee Road "Southwestern" line between Lamb and Baileyville Roads so they did not need liability insurance.

  • @Kleman09 Was just Jared and I, but now its you, Jared, and myself. :P

  • @bnsf261 whom would that be?

  • @IllinoisTrains1 Oh yeah I forgot to look at your date.

    Well your chance will come soon enough :)

  • @bnsf261 That was last year and unfortunatly it fell through. I was asked to go by a club member of my railroad club but we never heard about it again. I don't know what happened but October came and went I never went out there, which sucked because I was really looking forward to it.

  • @IllinoisTrains1 Which day you coming?

    Me and a freind will be firing and running on the 24th.

    (If Roger can get the VP's approval)

  • I got to run a heisler at Roaring Camp in Felton. Heislers are finky, but very fun locomotives. They are very well built, and engineered.

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