Boone & Scenic Valley railroad ; JS8419, the "Iowan" returns

late in the evening on October 6th, a post went out on the Boone and scenic valley announcing the successful test run of their JS Mikado 8419 the week prior, and the immediate plans for it to haul the fraser runs every Saturday through the month of October. the next day, October 7th, my friend and i set out on a 3.5 hour road trip to document it's first day in revenue service running close to fraser and return on the 1:30 and 4:00 pm trains.

run by locations are far and few between, and the train didn't even get into Fraser it's self as we had set up at the crossing there which was a disappointment, but all in all we had a great day chasing the train and documenting it as they did their switching to put the consist up for the night.
the crew of the 8419 and all involved with it's restoration over the 6 year if was being worked on deserve a job well done for the amazing job they did.
as mentioned by a member of the shop crew they have much more cosmetic work to do over the winter but the 8419 is back and running beautifully

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