We are able to indulge our love of steam trains even to experiencing rides on the footplate of  all these engines.

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J1211

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"Puffing Billy"  in  Melbourne, Australia in the summer of 1966

The Kuranda railcar (out of Cairns) in 1966

"3985 Challenger"    a 4-6-4 engine and the largest

operating steam engine in the world.  We had a great

day on this train travelling through Oregon in 1995

The second day of our train journey in 1995

was behind the  E9's  where we travelled

through Washington State to Spokane.

Royal Hudson at Squamish north of Vancouver   Canada in 1999.  We first rode this train  in 1975

Of all our train trips in 1986 the Durango-Silverton line in Colorado just had to be one of our favourites