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Whatever floats your boat, er, rides your rails. Have fun!

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Exactly! Love reading about projects and hobbies like this. Enjoy!


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Thanks all! The biggest hurdle currently is trying to find a suitable trailer that won't break the bank. Unfortunately it needs a 6' wide minimum trailer which eliminates all of the affordable 5' wide trailers.




 
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Replacing the exhaust today. Got it running yesterday!





 
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Thanks all! The biggest hurdle currently is trying to find a suitable trailer that won't break the bank. Unfortunately it needs a 6' wide minimum trailer which eliminates all of the affordable 5' wide trailers.


Looking good!

Get on Facebook marketplace and craigslist, there's always someone who started a project and needed a trailer, or stopped hauling things, and their wife wants it out of the yard or garage..
 
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Looking at the pics, it's got train horns! That right there makes it awesome!
 
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These are so cool! Congrats!


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Do I spy a hand crank/'kick-starter' handle protruding from the cab body behind the right front wheel?


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How many cup holders?


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Do I spy a hand crank/'kick-starter' handle protruding from the cab body behind the right front wheel?



You do, it's a crank start




 
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Here's a quick video of it running







 
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That's cool, dang things cadence makes it sound like some ones firing off a machine gun from a ww1 trench!

 
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So what's the plan? Small rail line around the neighborhood/farm?
 
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So what's the plan? Small rail line around the neighborhood/farm?



There is a national organization that does excursions on various railroads. But for more day to day there's a rail trail a couple hours north that has the rails still in place. A local speeder club maintains the tracks and has authorization to run on it at any time. Here's a video from last year's open house there:





 
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That looks great. Thanks for sharing the details and pictures. I'm looking forward to your first trip.


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I'm headed up that way for a few days on Tuesday. Here's hoping all goes well. Got it set up on the trailer and ready to go.





 
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First day on the rails in the books!





 
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Are you going to put the original railroad markings back on it as part of its restoration?


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^^^And the Air Horns?


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I'll put the RR markings on if I can find them. Unfortunately the car # is all but flaked off. I've reached out to the Canadian Pacific Historical Society to see if they have any archival photos. The horns will go on once I get the compressor and tank.




 
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And here's a quick video going down the tracks:





 
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