Originally Posted by
repechage
since he was three years old, my son’s favorite locomotive is a Lima built GS-4.
a 4-8-4 wheel configuration Super Power 300 psi boiler - 5,000 hp about if the trailing truck internal booster was pulling too.
we have been on excursions behind it a few times. Terrific. Has its own house in Portland Oregon now. Impressive.
She belongs to the City of Portland!
That's awesome! I've seen her under steam a few times before, and got to climb into the cab once. A magnificent machine, built in 1941, before most of us were alive, and yet people still can operate and maintain her!
C&V Bikes should be no problem for future generations.