Re: 3 ft event of the year, Sweden

Neat!

Someday I need to hear whistles like that in person - in video, I find the shriek annoying. I suspect something gets lost in the translation.

I love the deep 'chuff' of a true compound mallet! It's not saturated steam, it's not superheated steam, it's a unique stack resonance.

Thanks!
SRK

Dag Bonnedal Wrote:
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> This year it is 50 years since one of the longer
> private narrow gauge railroads in Sweden closed.
> The Dala Ockelbo Norrsundet Järnväg was a 50
> miles, 3 ft railroad (actually 35") built to carry
> timber from the vast forests in central Sweden to
> the coast. Public carrier with steam until around
> 1960, then timber only and dieselized. But the
> company kept two of their magnificent Mallets as
> spares. Closed 1970 and an already existing,
> homeless preservation society was allowed to take
> over the main station with roundhouse and
> workshops in Jädraås together with 4 miles of
> the line. Definitely EBT vibes over the place.
>
> To commemorate the 50 years since the last logging
> train and to compensate for low income this summer
> the preserved railway did as some of their
> neighbouring forest owners. They cut some timber
> on their own property and gathered all the flat
> cars they have, 22 of them. Loaded a 250 ton train
> and coupled one of the Mallets in front. Just one
> run to the main station in Jädraås, no photo
> reruns.
> (Just hope the links work.)
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