Walter Johnston

Walter Johnston was a Chicago-area live steamer.

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  The herald on the tender of Walter's Hudson

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  Walter Johnston at his track in Indiana, just outside of Chicago, Ill. From video of Bill Koster, about 1970.

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  Walter's Hudson

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  Walter S. Johnston and his No. 2031. She is 1-1/2 inch scale, 7-1/2 inch gauge and weighs 1440 pounds dry. She is the motive power for the Johnston Line, a 2000 foot pike having many curves and heavy grades. Train equipment consists of 3 flat cars, 3 gondolas, a tank car and caboose. Three more cars are under construction. From The North American Live Steamer, Number 1 Volume 9, 1956.

Bill Koster wrote:

Walter Johnston had quite a railroad on a farm. It was just across the border from Chicago in Indiana. My diesel was the first diesel to run on his track. He later came to visit me in Homestead, Florida and ran my diesel there. I don't know what may have happened to his track. It was on property that his relative Emery Ohlenkamp (the injector manufacturer) owned.

References

• The Miniature Locomotive magazine, March-April 1953