Grand Teton-Everglades Steam Excursion Co.

National Summer Steamup 2009 – Thursday

  A Nickleplate Mike and its proud owner.   Dwight Ennis’ “The Beast” at rest on his portable track at the Steamup. Dwight finished painting and reassembling this engine just hours before the steamup started.   The swap table is open and the hordes descend.
  An Accucraft GS-4 in black livery is steamed up on the Brinks’ track.   Phil Oldenhage’s locomotive has a coupler on the front end, so he’s pushing a box car because he can.   Stripped to the brass, pot-fired LMS sits waiting on the track.
  The Hottman clinc: Left to right, Bill Baxley, Mark Johnson and an unidentified steamer listen intently as the master himself, Dave Hottman, lectures on the finer points of locomotion.   A look from the northwestern corner of the steamup hall across the expanse.   Denny Smith (aka Al Holston, center) explains ways that Paul Brink (right) can improve his portable track as Grover Cleveland looks on.
  Bruce Sherman’s well-weathered K-28 barrels down the track.   A heavy load: Sherman’s consist includes a car that carries a stationary steam engine.   Kevin Schindler explains the inner workings of a locomotive to a rapt student.
  Lon Brunken refills his American with a water tower that he brought to the steamup just for that purpose.   A David Gast 32mm tiny potboiler rockets around the Brink track.   Debbie Smith and Dan Fessler chat about doings in their native Fort Bragg, Calif.
  Grover Cleveland lusts after a 2½-inch scale, 4½-inch gauge quarry engine on the Accucraft table in the dealer room.   Richard Murray’s three-cylinder Shay rounds the bend of the Paso Robles track.   David Wegmuller paces his engine on the Paso Robles track.
  The Murray caboose.   Beth Squires tends to the Aristocraft Mikado she and her son Arthur share.   Jim McDavid proudly watches as his Aster S2, 4-8-4, rounds the bend. Dan Fessler is in the background.
  Another view of the McDavid Aster S-4.   Steve Shyvers’ modified Roundhouse with the Squires Mike in the background.    




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