7 1/2" Gauge line in South Carolina
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Verry nice I would love to have a railroad in my backyard! Im a volunteer for a tourest railroad and I get to work with full sized trains.
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We have friends/relatives that live near Greenville. We will be going up there this Oct. Maybe I can check it out if I can find it.
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This line is south of Greenville, several miles off i-85. Neat facility. I've never seen an air powered steamer before. Everything but a couple of turnouts and the actual track itself was made by the folk there.
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Great video. There used to be a guy in Holiday FL that had one of these set up around his house and a lot next door. Where in SC is this?
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damn!!!!!thats nice wished i had that.
jdubbjazzbass 6 months ago
@jdubbjazzbass Yeah.. All hand made - He designed it for steam, but decided on air power for safety.. (just in case...) -- One load of air is good for one full circuit of the track... VERY sweet little train...
Billblom 6 months ago
Where is this located?
MrLeonard55 1 year ago
@MrLeonard55 -- The railroad is off Interstate 85 in South Carolina. West of Piedmont SC.
It will be one of the places to be toured as part of the national narrow gauge convention that happens in Hickory next year. (September time frame).. It is really a neat system. They made *everything* from scratch - cars, engine, switches, track, and so on...
Several locally produced engines may visit the location for the convention, possibly a live steam replica of the tweetsie engine.
Billblom 1 year ago
@Billblom I bought a house in SC about 15 miles southwest of rockhill. I'll be moving up next month I hope to get by there to see it.
MrLeonard55 1 year ago
@MrLeonard55 - It's a neat operation, but by appointment. (And you can't blow the whistle continuously, because you use up a lot of air doing that..heh)
A design engineer that works on turbines actually did the design work on that.. A *safe* design for steam... and rock solid for air power.
Billblom 1 year ago