Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?

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Man that looks like fun! ::nod:: I'd love to do that too! ::tu:: I hope you can talk her into it. ::fc:: :D
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TwoFlowersLuggage wrote: Sat Sep 24, 2022 3:39 pm I'm trying to talk my wife into taking a trip to ride the Grand Canyon Railway: https://www.thetrain.com/ Has anyone done this? Her first response was that the train would be "full of train nerds like you." ::tu::

That would be really cool, hope you can make it happen. ::nod::. I talked my wife into spending the day at https://www.borail.org/ and then going to a model train at Timonium Fairgrounds, which is close to Baltimore. October 15th & 16th.
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Well, to be fair, about 10 years ago I did convince her to go with me to the California State Railway Museum in Sacramento. https://www.californiarailroad.museum/visit/exhibits

It was AWESOME. I highly recommend it to any train fans. Being from California, my favorite line is the Southern Pacific, and this museum is an SP fan's dreamland! Seeing the last surviving SP cab-forward 4-8-8-2 was a huge bucket list item for me. My father was an Army MP in WWII, and one of his posts was guarding the Donner Pass train tunnels outside Truckee, CA. He would talk about staying inside the tunnels due to the bitter cold and having his teeth darn near rattled out of his head by the massive steam locomotives. The cab-forwards were the prime movers for the supply trains through the Donner Pass tunnels. It is hard to picture just how huge those articulated steam locos are until you are standing next to it. (The UP Big Boy is only about 6' longer than the SP cab-forward. and I suspect that 6' is mostly cow catcher!)
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Cool info, haven't been to Donner Pass but have stayed in Truckee and skied all over Tahoe, I love that area. ::tu:: ::tu::

How about some train related tunes?


Any Rock Island fans should know this one. 😉 🚂🎶
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Check this out, Rock Island steam and early diesels.



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Good stuff John! ::tu::
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DM11 wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 12:37 am Good stuff John! ::tu::

I agree, David. I don't think it's possible, but wouldn't time travel to see old railroad history in action on a large scale be cool?
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It would be VERY cool!!!!
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1967redrider wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 12:34 pm
DM11 wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 12:37 am Good stuff John! ::tu::

I agree, David. I don't think it's possible, but wouldn't time travel to see old railroad history in action on a large scale be cool?
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Yes it would John! 8) ::tu:: Untill we'll just have to live with the steam excursion trains. I've rode the Cumbres &Toltec train twice and would do it every year if I could. Its grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat! :lol:
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DM11 wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 7:31 pm
1967redrider wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 12:34 pm
DM11 wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 12:37 am Good stuff John! ::tu::

I agree, David. I don't think it's possible, but wouldn't time travel to see old railroad history in action on a large scale be cool?
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Yes it would John! 8) ::tu:: Untill we'll just have to live with the steam excursion trains. I've rode the Cumbres &Toltec train twice and would do it every year if I could. Its grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat! :lol:

It's on my bucket list, one day! I would also love to hit York, PA and Cass, WV plus a few others.
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1967redrider wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 11:05 pm
DM11 wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 7:31 pm
1967redrider wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 12:34 pm


I agree, David. I don't think it's possible, but wouldn't time travel to see old railroad history in action on a large scale be cool?
😎👍 🚂
Yes it would John! 8) ::tu:: Untill we'll just have to live with the steam excursion trains. I've rode the Cumbres &Toltec train twice and would do it every year if I could. Its grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat! :lol:

It's on my bucket list, one day! I would also love to hit York, PA and Cass, WV plus a few others.
Yes that would be nice!
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I think this is a modern day short of a previously posted vid-


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Some NS action on today's coffee walk.

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Just saw an article on trainz.com that the Canadian Pacific/Kansas City Southern deal still isn't done yet.
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Have you guys seen the UK railway strikes? All 4 or the unions collaborated to walk out at the same time.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63087621

The UK seems to have kind of an odd system for worker strikes - they seem to be scheduled and announced weeks in advance by each of the unions? Leave it to the British to even have strikes in a formal, orderly way. I wonder if management serves the strikers tea & biscuits??
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Likin that NS action John! ::tu:: The RR is quite here today. Not one train so far.
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UP is going through our area like gangbusters.
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Thanks, David. ::handshake::
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Every once in a while, the almighty youtube algorithm smiles down upon me. This is the greatest video I have ever seen. I sat through this with my mouth hanging open. Make sure you have your sound turned-up...

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TwoFlowersLuggage wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:54 am Every once in a while, the almighty youtube algorithm smiles down upon me. This is the greatest video I have ever seen. I sat through this with my mouth hanging open. Make sure you have your sound turned-up...

Check out Page 53 of this thread. 😎👍 🚂
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1967redrider wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:33 pm
TwoFlowersLuggage wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:54 am Every once in a while, the almighty youtube algorithm smiles down upon me. This is the greatest video I have ever seen. I sat through this with my mouth hanging open. Make sure you have your sound turned-up...

Check out Page 53 of this thread. 😎👍 🚂

And then someone cr@ps in your hat... ::facepalm::


It's all good!! At least you didn't say you hated it! ::groove::
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TwoFlowersLuggage wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 6:01 pm
1967redrider wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:33 pm
TwoFlowersLuggage wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:54 am Every once in a while, the almighty youtube algorithm smiles down upon me. This is the greatest video I have ever seen. I sat through this with my mouth hanging open. Make sure you have your sound turned-up...

Check out Page 53 of this thread. 😎👍 🚂

And then someone cr@ps in your hat... ::facepalm::


It's all good!! At least you didn't say you hated it! ::groove::

Oh, I loved it! There's lots of great historic train vids on that page. 🎉🚂💯
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Oh my! ::uc:: (and I though my "little knife obsession" was out of control!!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLmF-lnkDZs

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:shock: :shock: :shock: WOW!!! My little 5 1/2' x 5 1/2' pales in comparison. ::mdm::

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