> A tourist railroad and western-theme town
> ("Deadwood Flats") attraction
> located near Bloomsburg, PA. About 2 miles
> of track laid to the "coal mine
> gauge" of 48 inches. Used former
> Jeddo-Highlands Coal 0-4-0 117 that was
> rebuilt from a tank engine into a tender
> engine.

Is this the operation used for the train scenes in the movie "The Molly Maguires" starring Sean Connery ?

> Also used former Elk River Coal
> & Lumber 2-Truck Climax 3 that was
> converted from standard gauge to 48 inch
> gauge for use on the CP&W.

There is a short scene of a Climax running, on the Sunday River video of the Reading IRON HORSE RAMBLES. Is this the above subject ?

> Ah, yes, right. All of the preceeding was
> from memory, and after 25++ years........
> looking at my old files might be a good
> idea!

Hey, don't fret Howard...that memory is impressive!

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> Is this the operation used for the train
> scenes in the movie "The Molly
> Maguires" starring Sean Connery ?

> There is a short scene of a Climax running,
> on the Sunday River video of the Reading
> IRON HORSE RAMBLES. Is this the above
> subject ?

Short answer to both qwuestions: Yes.

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> Wasn't there a PRR gas electric car at Lake
> Roland, the site of the proposed Baltimore
> Streetcar Museum and National Capital
> Trolley Museum before both groups split and
> built seperate musuem sites? I thought one
> was there to provide 600VDC power for the
> cars. I do not believe that cars ever
> operated at Lake Roland. Was there a
> railroad connection and any track built
> there?

PRR 4662 was owned by National Capital Trolley Museum and was to be used as the power plant for operations at Lake Roland in Robert E. Lee Park north of Baltimore. The Lake Roland operation was to be a dual gauge line built on the branch line that connected the Northern Central (PRR) with the Western Maryland north of the City. There was an active connection off the Northern Central to the Lake Roland Branch, and that is how PRR 4662 got in and out of the site. I do not know if it moved under its own power. I recall that PRR 4662 was traded or sold, along with Shaker Heights 27 (now at Seashore via Tansboro) as part of the deal to transport the NCTM and BSM collections out of Lake Roland. JTCo 352 and DCTS 0522 were the only NCTM cars at the Lake. I do not know how many BSM cars were there, all in outdoor storage!!! No cars ever operated at Lake Roland location.

Wesley

> Joel

> PRR 4662 was owned by National Capital
> Trolley Museum and was to be used as the
> power plant for operations at Lake Roland in
> Robert E. Lee Park north of Baltimore. The
> Lake Roland operation was to be a dual gauge
> line built on the branch line that connected
> the Northern Central (PRR) with the Western
> Maryland north of the City. There was an
> active connection off the Northern Central
> to the Lake Roland Branch, and that is how
> PRR 4662 got in and out of the site. I do
> not know if it moved under its own power. I
> recall that PRR 4662 was traded or sold,
> along with Shaker Heights 27 (now at
> Seashore via Tansboro) as part of the deal
> to transport the NCTM and BSM collections
> out of Lake Roland. JTCo 352 and DCTS 0522
> were the only NCTM cars at the Lake. I do
> not know how many BSM cars were there, all
> in outdoor storage!!! No cars ever operated
> at Lake Roland location.

> Wesley

All ten of the Baltimore cars were at Lake Roland outdoors. Its amazing they survived as well as they did. 4662 operated from Hollins, the junction with the Northern Central to the museum site about a mile up the ex Green Spring Valley branch under its own power.

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