The personal and professional website of Douglas Van Bossuyt
The Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge.
An old safe.
It is REALLY big.
Teeth for the buckets.
Inside the dredge. This thing is BIG.
Very big.
This was used to let the gold dust fall out of the mud and water slurry.
An old boat to get to the dredge.
A home-built air compressor.
Screens to keep trash out of the dredge water intakes.
From the older dredges that are now rotted away.
A small smelter setup.
The train getting robbed again. I sense a pattern developing.
Getting ready to head downhill back to McEwen.
Look at all of those patents!
I love those steam pistons.
Smoking away.
The engineer talking with someone on the platform.
An old luggage caddy.
Watch out for bears!
Doing some maintenance to the engine.
Oiling things up.
The engine steaming in the station.
Safety first!
Getting up in the cab.
The boiler and fire box.
I love those brass gauges!
The engineer’s seat.
They let me sit in the engineer’s seat! This is what I worked through three degrees to do! I’m a real engineer!
Steaming out of the station.
Steaming south.
A little speeder.
The fire tender.
Coming into McEwen Depot.
The engine heads off to the switch so it can run to the other end of the train for the next departure to Sumpter.
Boilers waiting to be put into an engine someday.
Filling up with water.
A view of the rail yard and engine shed.
The Sumpter Gold Dredge State Park and the Sumpter Depot on the Sumpter Valley Railroad.
A stockade hotel.
The main drag.
This may or may not still be a store.
Most of these buildings are for sale.
In case you need a map.
The vault from the old Bank of Sumpter.
Hops growing on the side of a building.
The Breakfast Club.
