Large Scale Central

Glenbrook- 1875 Oldie but goodie

General Discussion
#1

In case you all haven’t seen it- the Glenbrook has been restored to operational status at the Nevada RR Museum. This marks the Glenbrook to be the third 1875 locomotive in service at this time, along with Dan Markoff’s “Eureka”, and the standard gauged Inyo. Here’s just one article and one video of the many out there.

http://carsonnow.org/story/05/23/2015/restored-its-breathtaking-beauty-steam-locomotive-Glenbrook-unveiled

This is a video I found on youtube- no affiliation to the poster…

Aside from the incredible job on the exterior restoration focusing on “day one appearance”, the interior of the cab is also breath taking.

Enjoy!

Matt

#2

Wow that is one good looking locomotive

There are a bunch of photos on the museum’s facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/NSRMCC

Stan

#3

Awesome! What a magnificent machine!

#4

I think its great that someone is willing to spend the money and time to restore these machines. But I always wonder, where do they find them? Its not like someone has a stash of them in their sock drawer.

#5

It looks like a brand new machine!!! That is a bunch of work and money! I’ve been involved in restoring a two foot gauge engine as part of a volunteer team. About 10 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not going to be as shiney as that though.

#6

Hi Matt:

Thank you for posting this. These are the types of locomotives I like. Too bad that Bachmann was never interested in producing the standard gauge V&T Genoa, Reno and Inyo for Gauge One track. I made due with the Bachmann narrow gauge 4-4-0 as my pretend standard gauge Genoa.

Norman

#7

I sure hope that D&S or C&T Brings her out to this corner of the world. Wouldn’t she look great over the “High line”.

#8

Dave Taylor said:

I sure hope that D&S or C&T Brings her out to this corner of the world. Wouldn’t she look great over the “High line”.

Dave,

I just read this on the NG Discussion Group.

http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,289777,289780#msg-289780

This would be somethin’!