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Viewing Album:  Steam Engine in Action on the Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad
 
By:Matthew Zisi
Dates:6/7/2019 - 6/7/2019
Album Info:Howdy, friends! Today, I went for a ride on the Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad. It was 100th birthday weekend for ATSF 3415, which used to sit in Eisenhower Park. Then, the Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad (a heritage line which runs excursions on the former Rock Island tracks east to Enterprise) bought the steam engine in 2001. Fred Schmidt, who spearheaded restoration efforts for the steam-powered carousel in Abilene as well as a steamboat engine from the 1856 Arabia at the Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City, MO, made this his last great restoration effort. After eight years of work, the locomotive became the only operational steam engine in Kansas in 2009. Today, it pulls some of the rides the railroad offers, including the one we went on this day. What a thrill it was to get to hear the whistle blow in real life! If you ever get to Abilene, make sure you take a ride on this! P.S.--the Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad runs out of the Rock Island Depot a few blocks south of the interstate. It is not the Union Pacific Depot, which you will see just south of NW 3rd Street, on your right. Nor is it the BNSF Depot, which you will see just north of SW 3rd Street, also on your right. It is the Rock Island Depot, just past the Eisenhower Library and Heritage Center, on your left on 5th Street. You know a town's a big railroad town when it's easy to get the depots mixed up!
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ASV 25466
Title:  ASV 25466
Description:  Always good to see a railroad still using cabooses!
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 9:09:40 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  109   Comments: 0
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description:  All aboard! Getting ready to leave!
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:15:34 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  164   Comments: 1
Yellow Coach
Title:  Yellow Coach
Description:  The coach we road in, which does not seem to have a number.
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/13/2019 7:07:00 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  93   Comments: 0
BN 12301
Title:  BN 12301
Description:  The Rock Island tracks run parallel to the Santa Fe ones east of Abilene, and here, we catch a glimpse of one of the old Burlington Northern cabooses, still in use!
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/13/2019 7:09:24 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  111   Comments: 0
BN 12301
Title:  BN 12301
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/13/2019 7:10:04 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  118   Comments: 0
BNSF 1773
Title:  BNSF 1773
Description:  A Santa Fe lifer, built for the railroad in 1978 as ATSF 5213
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/13/2019 7:12:14 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 1773(SD40-2)
Views:  141   Comments: 1
BNSF 1773 1759
Title:  BNSF 1773 1759
Description:  1759 is actually newer, built for the Santa Fe in 1981 as #5191
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/13/2019 7:13:01 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 1773(SD40-2) BNSF 1759(SD40-2)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
MOFW Equipment
Title:  MOFW Equipment
Description:  All the flooding lately took its toll on this railroad-they had only just gotten the line reopened this week!
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/13/2019 7:16:36 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  75   Comments: 0
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description:  And now here we are in Enterprise, where they moved the engine to the back of the train so it could pull back to Abilene.
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:20:30 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  149   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:21:12 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  128   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:21:52 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  130   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:22:35 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  105   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:23:18 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  87   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:24:00 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  183   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:24:41 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  116   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:25:24 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  159   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:26:06 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  131   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:26:45 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  104   Comments: 1
End of the Line
Title:  End of the Line
Description:  That half car marks the end of this stretch of track, only the track resumes a few feet later on the other side of town. The railroad runs railbus tours over that stretch once a month. Hopefully one day, they can connect the two sections and reopen the whole remaining line.
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 9:25:06 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  113   Comments: 0
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:27:25 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  161   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description:  Closeup of the crew!
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:28:20 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  139   Comments: 0
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:29:34 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  155   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description:  The only operating steam engine in the state of Kansas!
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:30:33 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  159   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description:  This engine sat in a park in Abilene for several years.
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:31:57 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  128   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description:  Now, it is celebrating its 100th birthday by giving a train ride!
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:32:57 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  119   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description:  A veteran crewman, when asked how fast it went, said, "The Santa Fe allowed us to go 65."
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:34:01 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  150   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:34:46 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  125   Comments: 0
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:35:29 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  106   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:36:10 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  134   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:36:52 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  317   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:37:45 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  130   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:38:22 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  136   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:39:00 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  152   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:40:02 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  141   Comments: 0
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:40:42 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  134   Comments: 1
Boxcars
Title:  Boxcars
Description:  Put some buffers on the green one, and it would look European.
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 8:41:35 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  128   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description:  Hooking it up for the journey back to Abilene!
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 9:11:05 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  143   Comments: 1
Old Coach
Title:  Old Coach
Description:  The railroad had 2 coaches donated to it, both badly in need of restoration. One is now the coach used on rides. This is the other one, still awaiting restoration. You can still see "Bunk Car" written faintly on the lower right corner.
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 9:14:40 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  134   Comments: 0
Old Caboose
Title:  Old Caboose
Description:  Now a building!
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 9:15:30 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  92   Comments: 0
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 9:12:00 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  105   Comments: 1
ATSF 3415
Title:  ATSF 3415
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 9:12:40 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3415(4-6-2)
Views:  111   Comments: 1
A&SV 611404
Title:  A&SV 611404
Description:  An old gondola
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 9:19:53 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  92   Comments: 0
A&SV 610651
Title:  A&SV 610651
Description:  Another old gondola, and signal
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 9:20:52 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  122   Comments: 0
A&SV 610651
Title:  A&SV 610651
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 9:21:44 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  116   Comments: 0
Coach
Title:  Coach
Description:  The coach we rode in (no number).
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 9:22:40 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  110   Comments: 0
Green Boxcar
Title:  Green Boxcar
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 9:23:25 PM
Location:  Enterprise, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  86   Comments: 0
Smoke
Title:  Smoke
Description:  The dark gray stuff is from our engine!
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/13/2019 7:13:46 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  81   Comments: 0
BNSF 1773 1759
Title:  BNSF 1773 1759
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/13/2019 7:14:46 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 1773(SD40-2) BNSF 1759(SD40-2)
Views:  271   Comments: 0
MOFW Equipment
Title:  MOFW Equipment
Description:  Plus BNSF 1773 and 1759
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/13/2019 7:17:33 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 1773(SD40-2) BNSF 1759(SD40-2)
Views:  272   Comments: 0
MOFW Equipment
Title:  MOFW Equipment
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 7/13/2019 7:18:10 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  77   Comments: 0

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