CLIMAX 1694 geared locomotive (Similar to Ferdinand)

Now she is a beauty and a wood burner too. I like how they did the interior of the cab in a cream color to be able to see inside better. Those passenger cars look be converted from some type of mining or timber cars.

Love the olde tyme picture of what looks like a boys school trip from what...the 30's 40's or 50's? You can tell its of an era gone by as I don't think letting children play all over a rusted out train would be sanctioned by a school for fear of one of them cutting themselves and getting Tetanus.

Interesting story of its life and how the rust bucket has been brought back and restored which otherwise would have perished like so many others. Thanks Ucwepn.

Society has gone soft...it was once a national parks program (1960's) to install old engines in all public parks for children to explore and play on...some of my favorite memories as a kid was playing on them at Sequoia Park. Then in 1979 they were yanked out and replaced by sterile "Lincoln log" play structures...life and kids haven't been the same since. :/