Introduction

          This blog is all about the Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad which is a two-foot narrow gauge railroad.  It will be updated twice a week with one post about its history on Thursday and another post about current activities taking place on Saturday.  Since this is the first post I believe it is important to start from the beginning with how the railroad came to be.
         The Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad is located in St. Marys, PA and was started by the Bauer brothers who saw an advertisement for a German-built steam engine in Trains magazine.  In the spring of 1966, the steam engine, soon to be named Otto, departed Germany on the American Merchant ship.  A few months later, Otto arrived in Philadelphia, PA where it was lowered onto a lowboy truck for her journey to St. Marys, PA.  After arriving in St. Marys, a crane was used to place Otto on a twenty-foot section of track.  In October, a building was erected to house Otto just as the first snowfall arrived. 

Otto being unloaded from the ship

 

 

 

 

 

Getting ready for the trip on the lowboy from Philadelphia, PA to St. Marys, PA

Set down on the twenty foot section of track

Above photos taken by William A. Bauer