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>The sound of a steam whistle echoed through a central Casper neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon as a Southern Pacific Atlantic-type 4-4-2 engine puffed smoke and pulled six cars and a caboose.
For nearly two years the sounds of the freight train’s whistle squeal had been silent as the engine underwent an overhaul at the hands of 82-year-old Chuck Eckerson in his fully equipped railroad machine shop in a two-story garage behind his house.
Railroading has been his passion since the time he smelled the coal smoke from steam trains churning out of the Casper depot as a youngster.
“When I was 5 years old, I fell in love with the steam locomotive,” Eckerson said. He made railroading his profession as well as his hobby and has enthralled hundreds over the years with rides on his 7 1/4- inch tracks and his one-sixth-scale train — all built by him and detailed down to the miniature toilet paper roll in the caboose.
Archive: https://archive.today/aOV3L
From the post:
>>The sound of a steam whistle echoed through a central Casper neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon as a Southern Pacific Atlantic-type 4-4-2 engine puffed smoke and pulled six cars and a caboose.
For nearly two years the sounds of the freight train’s whistle squeal had been silent as the engine underwent an overhaul at the hands of 82-year-old Chuck Eckerson in his fully equipped railroad machine shop in a two-story garage behind his house.
Railroading has been his passion since the time he smelled the coal smoke from steam trains churning out of the Casper depot as a youngster.
“When I was 5 years old, I fell in love with the steam locomotive,” Eckerson said. He made railroading his profession as well as his hobby and has enthralled hundreds over the years with rides on his 7 1/4- inch tracks and his one-sixth-scale train — all built by him and detailed down to the miniature toilet paper roll in the caboose.
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