Train Festival

02/24/2025

New Video Uploaded from the official video of Train Festival 2009. Check it out

Watch the official video of TrainFestival 2009. This video was officially produced for the event and has been licensed to FiredUp Trains Productions from Exe...

05/17/2023

IKEA for steam locomotive frames? Just cut and paste together....

This is a sneak peek of more to come on the T1 frame engineering. We will be giving several presentations at the Pennsylvania Railroad Historical and Technical Society this Friday and Saturday. If you are planning on attending the convention in Dublin, OH come up and introduce yourself and say hi to the team responsible for putting the locomotive together with your donations.

This frame only weighs 70,000 lbs.... we are sure it can be assembled in an afternoon. 😉

12/04/2021

Cool

12/04/2021

Check out this YT page. Pretty cool train videos and animated trains.

Hello and Welcome to the Fired Up Trains YouTube Channel. The goal of this channel is to provide quality railroading content. If you enjoy the content you se...

09/25/2021

Very cool progress on building a new mainline steam locomotive

03/22/2020

If your getting a bit stir crazy and looking for something to watch, take a look at this presentation from the PRR T1 Trust. They are building a new mainline steam locomotive from scratch. This presentation was from a couple weeks ago during their open house. Lots of great info and it shows they might not be as crazy as everyone thought when they announced the project several years ago.

02/11/2019

Here is a neat slide show video set to music of a steam locomotive coming back to life.

Watch this video slide show set to music presented by Mark Perri of the restoration and operation of Grand Trunk Western and Ohio Central Railroad 4-8-4 #632...

08/20/2017

Now this is a big deal!

TENDER FOR 5550

The T1 Trust has purchased the last remaining 16-wheel PRR long haul tender in existence. Please take a moment to help preserve the tender for 5550. To learn more, please visit the T1 Trust’s website https://prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org/station/index.php?route=tinfo/tinfo and make a tax-deductible contribution today. All donors who direct $500 or more to the 5550 Tender Preservation Fund will have their name engraved on a plaque which will be affixed to the tender.
Acquired from the Western New York Railway Historical Society (WNYRHS), this is essentially a T1 tender minus the streamlining. The purchase of this PRR coast-to-coast tender negates the need to build a new tender for the T1 locomotive, and saves the T1 Trust an estimated $3 Million.
The tender is in excellent condition with sealed hatches, minor surface rust, and well-preserved trucks. Jason Johnson, the T1 Trust’s General Manager remarked after thoroughly inspecting the tender, “I just can’t get over what great shape it’s in”.
The long haul tender was originally acquired by the WNYRHS to replace the gutted-out short tender for their PRR 2-10-0 I1sa locomotive. As part of the purchase agreement, the T1 Trust has agreed to fully restore the I1’s tender tank to its original specifications as part of the WNYRHS’s planned cosmetic restoration of the I1 locomotive. The cost of the tender restoration is estimated to be approximately $75,000.
The T1 Trust has also made arrangements to store the tender at the WNYRHS’s museum site, the Heritage Discovery Center, in Buffalo, NY for up to 30 years at a cost of $1 per year where it will be displayed alongside the PRR I1. WNYRHS President, Joseph Kocsis, Jr. expressed much enthusiasm for the agreement, “We’re grateful to partner with the T1 Trust to make 5550 a reality. They bring a great deal of expertise to the table and we look forward to working with them in the restoration of our I1 tender and seeing the long haul tender return to its intended use”.
T1 Trust members will travel to New York to complete a renovation of the brake system and replace the oil in the roller bearings. In addition, the T1 Trust plans to sandblast, prime and paint the tender in the appropriate Brunswick Green (DGLE) paint scheme. About half of the work will be donated, and the T1 Trust is seeking donations to cover the remaining cost.

07/16/2017

The parts just keep getting bigger!

The T1 Trust along with Curry Rail Services are pleased to announce the realization of the cab for PRR T1 #5550. Slated to become the fastest thing on thirty-two wheels when finished, PRR T1 #5550 is no mere replica or restoration project, but rather the next locomotive in the PRR T1 duplex class.

In a homecoming of sorts, the cab for PRR T1 #5550 is shown here at Curry Rail Services in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Pennsy faithful will celebrate the fact that the cab for 5550 was built in the former PRR Samuel Rea Car Shops, now occupied by Curry Rail. Among a growing list of T1 Trust corporate sponsors, Curry Rail is the premier provider of locomotive products, freight car repair and car manufacturing for the railroad industry, additional details can be found by visiting the Curry Rail website at www.curryrail.com

The new T1 is a team effort, and a special thank you is also owed to defense contractor and T1 Trust Corporate Sponsor JAKTOOL of Cranbury, NJ. JAKTOOL (http://www.jaktool.com/defense/) spent hundreds of hours converting archival PRR blueprints into the CAD model used for construction of the cab. This CAD model was then sent to Gemini Industrial Machine in Dover, OH. Gemini (http://www.geminiindustrial.com/) also a long-time sponsor of T1 Trust, used an extremely precise CNC waterjet cutter to produce the parts for the cab. The parts were then shipped to Curry Rail where final assembly culminated in expert welder Eddie Martin fabricating a piece of history.

This photo taken at Curry Rail Services in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania the week of July 10, 2017 shows (L to R) Mark Ritchey, President Curry Rail Services, Zach Hall, T1 Trust Representative, Eddie Martin, Chief Cab Fabricator, Curry Rail Services

05/17/2017

Cool progress on a new build steam locomotive here in the USA.

Hats off to the crew at Gemini Industrial Machine in Dover, OH http://www.geminiindustrial.com/
If You Can Think It, They Can Make It!
L to R Chris Starr, Jason Johnson and Lee Williamson
Starting with archival blueprints and sheets of aluminum provided by the T1 Trust, Gemini did the rest: CAD modeling, water jet cutting, fabrication, even body work and paint - and all on their dime! The T1 Trust is grateful to be partnered with such a remarkable organization. Please "Like" them on Facebook as a way of saying thanks. https://m.facebook.com/geminiindustrialmachine/

04/29/2017

It is cool when industry partners work together to preserve history, or in this case create history.

This spring, Curry Rail Services is working with The T1 Trust to fabricate the locomotive cab for their new T1 steam locomotive #5550. CRS believes in the groups mission and wanted to be apart of this project. As a premier manufacturer of locomotive cabs and other equipment this project is a perfect fit for CRS.
To learn more about the T1 Trust and their mission, visit https://prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org/index.php.

03/31/2017

Great Sound!

5550 Receives Her Voice

The whistle shown here was recently donated to the T1 Trust for use on 5550. This whistle has been independently verified as a genuine original PRR T1 whistle by "Horn & Whistle" magazine. To listen to the whistle's sweet and mellow tone, please visit the T1 Trust's audio gallery: https://prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org/video_view.php?vid=9