{"id":283,"date":"2016-05-01T16:15:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T16:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cprss.org\/?page_id=283"},"modified":"2016-05-06T23:04:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T23:04:34","slug":"tri-state-meet-2016-apr-30","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.cprss.org\/?page_id=283","title":{"rendered":"Tri-State Meet 2016 Apr 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pictures below were taken on 2016 April 30 during the Tri-State Meet with CPR&SS, Cinder Sniffers, and the Indiana Live Steamers.\u00a0 It was a rainy day but there were two coal-fired steam engines brought to the Park.\u00a0 The 2-6-0 was a 2.5 scale,\u00a0 7.5 inch gauge and was run for the duration of the meet by Dennis L and several other attendees.\u00a0 Dennis made this engine himself and it was a very good runner.\u00a0 The Northern was brought by the Balmer family (Balmer Locomotive Works).\u00a0 It is 3.5″ gauge, coal-fired, and was run by son Jim Balmer many times around the lower loop in the West portion of the track which can accommodate 3.5 or 4.75 gauge trains.\u00a0 Click on each picture to view its larger version.<\/p>\n

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4-8-4 Northern<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chuck Balmer running the 2.5″ scale Mogul<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dennis Larrick running his self-made 2.5″ scale Mogul<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dennis and his Mogul in the steaming bay<\/p><\/div>\n

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Blowdow: Big Mogul = Big Steam<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jim Balmer behind the Northern<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jim running the Northern on the West loop<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ken H running the Mogul<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lunch – Thanks to Ken H and wife for the chili<\/p><\/div>\n

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Left side of the Northern<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pictures below were taken on 2016 April 30 during the Tri-State Meet with CPR&SS, Cinder Sniffers, and the Indiana Live Steamers.\u00a0 It was a rainy day but there were two coal-fired steam engines brought to the Park.\u00a0 The 2-6-0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":284,"parent":235,"menu_order":40801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-283","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cprss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cprss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cprss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cprss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cprss.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.cprss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"http:\/\/www.cprss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions\/329"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cprss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cprss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cprss.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}