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Contact these places.
https://www.tmny.org/
http://www.nymtmuseum.org/
Bruce
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Thanks for the update. I've driven by that area on the highway many times but didn't know anything was there. The RR south of Wickenburg along the river has always been interesting,
Some bits and pieces of information here...
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From:
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/diesel123.html
BART Ply DMD 15T #5002 , Hayward, CA 1997, nee Perini, rblt 66" ga cn6377 blt 1963
Robert Lehmuth
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From...
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Check here:
http://www.brosamersbells.com/railroad/
http://www.railroadcollectibles.com/types-of-collectibles/railroad-locomotive-engine-items/bells/
Bruce
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https://nre.com/parts-index/
https://www.epowerrail.com/Products/CategoryElectrical-Rotating/SubMain-Generator-Alternator?Category=Electrical%20Rotating&Sub=Main%20Generator%20-%20Alternator#1426345-main-generator---alternator
https://lselectric.com/rail/main-generator-and-alternator-services/...
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No reason it couldn't be done if that's the only option due to geography.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but look up
Keddie wye
A wye is much more likely to be surrounded by hills, like this:
https://ngtrainpics.photoshelter.com/image/I000070u5bpYjS98
Bruce
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Scroll down to class D7. There is a class description and another photo of 1035.
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/prr_steam2.html
And
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad_class_D7
And
http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=d7_olda_anth.gif&sel=ste&sz=sm&fr=...
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You can probably find it in these PRR records.
https://digital.hagley.org/Coverdale_index
Bruce
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Future light rail or trail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastside_Rail_Corridor
https://www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion/east-link-extension
Bruce
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Yes, worth seeing, but #108 was built in 1926, a long way from 1880.
:)
Bruce
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Probably spread from here.
2010 BBC article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/10588850
Bruce
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See:
https://rhinomarkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Ventguards-1024x512.jpg
Bruce
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https://thesteelbeam.com/products/early-1900s-railroad-crew-group-photo
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1876-train-pennsylvania-railroad-1854863333
This article has several pages about the Star Union:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43520756
Bruce
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Looks like Star Union was a freight car management company.
https://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/star-union.htm
Bruce
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Welcome to the forum.
Google and I can find no railway by that name, not even in Google books of that era. There was a Kansas Star newspaper and a Kansas Star train in a Superman movie.
https://moreobscuretrainmovies.movie.blog/tag/kansas-star/
List of current and defunct Kansas railroads...
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