Milwaukee Road 261: The Gourmet Express

Описание: Milwaukee Road 261: The Gourmet Express
Recorded on 9/8/18

A-Train4014 Productions has officially kicked off our first annual Steamy September with a bang by secretly giving hints on our Snapchat and Facebook page. If you haven’t figured out already, one of the events in our Steamy September involves a big surprise. Even though we were supposed to be at the Illinois Railway Museum last weekend, but due to flooding, trains were never operate at the Museum till later in the afternoon. Plus, our very own, Andrew Mangalindan was suffering a summer cold along with a sore throat at the time. So what better way to kick off Steamy September with a surprise: Milwaukee Road 261 running The Gourmet Express from Minneapolis, MN to Glencoe, MN. Milwaukee Road 261 is a steam engine that is on our Top 5 Favorite Steam Locomotives and we finally have an opportunity to see it in action even though we’ve been praying that it would make another run to Chicago someday. Now that it is 2018, we decided take a leap of faith and decided to see Milwaukee Road 261 near at its home for The Gourmet Express to help raise money for Positive Train Control (PTC). While we were there, we traveled to the state of Minnesota on Friday, September 7 and arrived there at the steam shops in Minneapolis within enough time and with enough sunlight during sunset to see Milwaukee Road 261 before seeing it operate on the Saturday afternoon trip. On Saturday, we started off at the steam shop where 261 is getting prepared for the trip. We would eventually get set up near the Mississippi River as the starting point of our chase. We also made stops at Eden Prairie, Dahlgren, and Bongards before seeing the train reach its final destination in Glencoe and then eventually being pulled back by Twin Cities and Western diesel locomotive 2015. Overall, it was a fantastic trip to remember and we will love to see the Milwaukee Road 261 again soon. We would like to send a special thanks to the Friends of the 261, Twin Cities and Western Railroad, and for all of those who were involved in making this excursion possible. We had a blast and we hope you enjoy this special presentation of the Milwaukee Road 261: The Gourmet Express!