This blog will grow in 2 directions - hopefully I’ll keep it up going forward, but I also want to try and make some historical posts, as if I did have a blog in the past. So posts will show up as new for a while... Then I’ll change the date to reflect when it would have been posted so it’s chronological.
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Owosso Train Festival 2009
Posted on July 26th, 2009 No commentsOn Saturday 25 July, Don and I headed out from Grand Rapids to Owosso to see 8 working steam locomotives at “Train Festival 2009“. The star of the show was Southern Pacific #4449 – a monster steam engine (weighs about 433 tons with tender attached) from 1941 that had travelled from Oregon to be at this event. This locomotive was completely refurbished from 1974-1976 so that it could be “America’s Freedom Train” during the Bi-Centennial celebrations of 1976. SP4449 has its own website here, including a great video made during its cross country trip in July 2009 to get to Owosso.
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Southern Pacific #4449
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Photo Gallery of Owosso Train Festival 2009
Posted on July 26th, 2009 1 commentA selection of the photos from the Owosso Train Festival 2009 is here.
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