Who needs little electric models when you can have something like these in your back yard? Of course, you kind of need a larger than normal back yard, , ,
http://www.wchstv.com/traveling/2008/twv080612.shtml
Slide show variation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhJs9lDHjGk
Newspaper story.
http://starbeacon.com/currents/x343672787/Last-train-from-Locust-Heights
Foster Brook & State Line contractor's Shay, 24" gauge; this was a stock engine offered by Lima for construction work; besides its small size, it is notable in that the three cylinders are cast in a large single block. Only five were built; this is the last one in existence, now in Pennsylvania.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgOZAr2bbgQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYc2zAcNZfQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Vkr2VFSz0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5b1RyTTQlM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mX3wdLlEWE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3VrFPe9ML8&feature=related
Linked from Railway Preservation News:
http://server.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=29351
http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,107371,107371#msg-107371
http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/file.php?1,file=2410
http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/file.php?1,file=2411
http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/file.php?1,file=2412
http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,107371,107373#msg-107373
http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,107371,107433#msg-107433
http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,107371,107434#msg-107434
Have fun.