Eureka & Palisade #4 runby

1880's woodburning 4-4-0 'Eureka' pulls a passenger train from Silverton to Durango. Location is near Needleton Tank, light rain falling. The echo of the single note whistle off the canyon walls is not to be missed.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Eureka
• Palisade
• #4
• 4-4-0
• old
• train

[vettebecker]

Hope she makes it back to the rails. It's good to see that she was purchase by Mr. Marcoff to run and not to just sit in a museum.

[PE1624]

Dan has finished an extensive overhaul and Eureka was back in Colorado this summer after being absent for a few years. He had some work to do with the FRA but since he is a lawyer he managed to get it worked out.

[PE1624]

Eureka is a woodburner, that stack of cordwood isn't fake. The D&S crews take chain saws lineside to dead wood for a week before Eureka gets there. And the type of wood makes a difference as to how wellit burns.

Just after this scene was shot, the Eureka lost traction backing up (it was raining lightly) and spunthe drivers. This sucked the fire right out of the firebox and they had to restoke the firebox before they could proceed.

PE1624

[baritonebynight]

Most beautiful locomotive in the world!

[pieman97405]

She is a beautiful loco, I wish she got out more.

[erikals2]

@TheMandolineer mine would be woodfired and run past a local park which holds weddings so I can blow the whistle while going past and scare the shit out of the celebrant...

[TheMandolineer]

I want a manufacturer to make this in every narrow gauge scale available. People would buy them :]

[modelrailroadguy2472]

WOW, what a beautiful engine!!!!

Eureka and Palisade #4 is my favorite NARROW GUAGE locomotive!!!

thanks,

William

[pennyf9]

Dan Markoff is a boss, #4 is so pristine it looks like the day it came out of Baldwin in 1875.

[strangefire1]

I cowboyed at a ranch called Palisade ranch next to the ghost town of palisade, NV. The ranch is full of Eureka & Palisade RR history. I found pieces of RR rail laying in the alfalfa fields, barb wire H braces made out of E&P RR ties with the RR spikes still driven in them, The draws and gullies still has parts of old RR bridge trusses. I even found a old rotted canvas bag full of new Narrow gage RR spikes that I still have today.

[Gnickk]

I miss the nineteenth century.

[Chris9017]

@vettebecker I believe only the boiler was retubed, but I could be wrong. She might not have had that done at all. I don't think she has enough miles on her to comply with a 1472 day inspection yet.

[renardgrise]

Love it!

[yeomanrycavalry]

Wasn't this locomotive at the Nevada State Railroad Museum?

[ATSF7]

Reminds me of the C.K. Holliday in Disneyland