Seen here chuffing along the narrow guage mainline, is the Rock River Cannonball steam train. My Brother in law "Ralph" was visiting family in Edgarton Wisconsin on Labor Day Weekend 2006. The narrow guage 0 -4 -0 has a distinctly "German" look. I don't have much information about this train, but it appears that the locomotive looks like a model from the Henschell and Sohn locomotive works from Germany. Many German steam locomotives of industrial narrow guage Ancestory came to America during the 1960's and 70's, and found work not in "Mines or Quarrys"...but rather in Amusement parks and Tourist Railways. This locomotive, like so many other European steam locomotives, has been fitted up with a "Fake" baloon smokestack and a Box headlight, to look like American steam locomotives from the "Old West", or even from the "Western Movies". It has been "Americanized" cosmetically.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Edgarton Wisconsin USA. The Rock River Cannonball. September 2006.
Seen here chuffing along the narrow guage mainline, is the Rock River Cannonball steam train. My Brother in law "Ralph" was visiting family in Edgarton Wisconsin on Labor Day Weekend 2006. The narrow guage 0 -4 -0 has a distinctly "German" look. I don't have much information about this train, but it appears that the locomotive looks like a model from the Henschell and Sohn locomotive works from Germany. Many German steam locomotives of industrial narrow guage Ancestory came to America during the 1960's and 70's, and found work not in "Mines or Quarrys"...but rather in Amusement parks and Tourist Railways. This locomotive, like so many other European steam locomotives, has been fitted up with a "Fake" baloon smokestack and a Box headlight, to look like American steam locomotives from the "Old West", or even from the "Western Movies". It has been "Americanized" cosmetically.
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