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At the recommendation of one of our AAPK members, I'd like to start a train thread for anyone interested in posting things train related. I'll kick off the thread by posting some pictures I have readily handy on my cell. Feel free to post train/railroad related pictures and items as well. ::tu::
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Some of my own train pictures. From the Depot in Oakland, MD and Cumberland Locomotive Shop.
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1967redrider wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:00 am At the recommendation of one of our AAPK members, I'd like to start a train thread for anyone interested in posting things train related. I'll kick off the thread by posting some pictures I have readily handy on my cell. Feel free to post train/railroad related pictures and items as well. ::tu::
Great idea, i am currently watching a replay of a TV series over here - Great Railway Journey's Of America. It is about railway systems in America obviously, but has a lot of information about the USA in general. Good thread, hope members contribute enough to keep it going. ::tu::
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This is the train that got me interested in trains as a kid. It is a Victorian Railways B Class EMD locomotive. Made under licence here, but designed around the great American EMD's of the 1940's.
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A link to my WMSR 1309 Steamengine Rebuilt post-

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cudgee wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:19 am
1967redrider wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:00 am At the recommendation of one of our AAPK members, I'd like to start a train thread for anyone interested in posting things train related. I'll kick off the thread by posting some pictures I have readily handy on my cell. Feel free to post train/railroad related pictures and items as well. ::tu::
Great idea, i am currently watching a replay of a TV series over here - Great Railway Journey's Of America. It is about railway systems in America obviously, but has a lot of information about the USA in general. Good thread, hope members contribute enough to keep it going. ::tu::

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This is the train that got me interested in trains as a kid. It is a Victorian Railways B Class EMD locomotive. Made under licence here, but designed around the great American EMD's of the 1940's.

Cool post, cudgee! Keep 'em coming. ::tu::
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Some of my wedding pictures taken this past September at the WMSR Train Station. We have a bunch more, I'll have to go through them.
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Some other random pictures and a screen shot of a text between me and my dad about my grandfather's 49 years of service on the B&O RR.
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1967redrider wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:42 am Some other random pictures and a screen shot of a text between me and my dad about my grandfather's 49 years of service on the B&O RR.
You're Grandfather would have been someone i could have sat and listened to for hours. ::handshake::
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cudgee wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:47 am
1967redrider wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:42 am Some other random pictures and a screen shot of a text between me and my dad about my grandfather's 49 years of service on the B&O RR.
You're Grandfather would have been someone i could have sat and listened to for hours. ::handshake::

Thanks, cudgee. Just think how much changed during that time period with the switch from steam to diesel. And right around the corner was the shift from passenger service to AMTRAK.
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This is awesome stuff! Great photos, John, really like the b/w wedding pic. It's a shame the Cumberland station didn't survive, looks like a classy building. Somewhere, I have a coffee table type book of train stations. I also like that photo from Green River Wyoming.
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Not too long ago, my wife and I spent an afternoon driving the Great River Road along the Mississippi. We were stopped by a train and I snapped this 1st pic thru the windshield. Thought I would post it, but first did a search on this locomotive. I found the 2nd picture online, same locomotive 5229, and from the background can say that it would have been taken about 5 miles from where my photo was taken. N S hauls a lot of coal in my area.
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The Die-Cast model on the right, is in the same livery as your photo, but in the bulldog style.
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I’ve ridden this one several times. My wife is from Palestine which is one end of this line. When her mom was still living we would take a picnic lunch, get on the train with our boys, and make a day of it. It was always a thrill, to me anyway, to be on the train and watch as the conductor in uniform would walk out from the station, check his pocket watch, signal the engineer and get onboard. And off we went! :D

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Great videos Ken, the condition of those 100 year old steam loco's is amazing. ::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu::
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Ain't been around many trains, but.....a real
cool trip we took years ago on the old narrow gauge
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I love steam engines, probably because my Mom did.

Southern Railways Norris Yard is just on the other side of Ruffner Mountain from our home and we can hear the goings on there, especially at night. They used to have a steam shop there, but no longer. So, we were treated to the sound of steam engines and their iconic whistles for a good many years.

In the mid-80’s, Mom footed the costs for herself and the four of us to ride the Norfolk and Western 611 and Powhatan Arrow from Birmingham to Chattanooga and back. She wanted all of us to experience steam rail travel while it still existed.

I will never forget that trip. Still have and wear the 611 tee shirt I bought. I bought an HO scale model of the 611 and the six Powhatan Arrow passenger cars and it runs around our Christmas tree.
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I'm not a train enthusiast, but I do have a
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Certainly is. ::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu:: :)
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Most excellent thread gents, from another trains buff here.
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A couple more photos from when i was a kid, and these and the B class bulldog loco's started my lifelong interest in trains. These were produced over here from 1955 till about 1963. Some restored ones are still running today, 60 - 65 years later.
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Some classy looking locos, Cudgee, I need to read up on Victorian Railways.

A little local (Southern Illinois) history which fits this thread......
The first recorded discovery of Coal in the United States was in 1673, along the Illinois River by French explorers Marquette and Joliet. The first coal mines in Illinois opened in the early 1800s, and I would think that by the mid 1800s, trains were the primary movers of mined coal. There were hundreds of mines in Illinois and a peak of a little more than 50,000 miners working in the state in the early 1900s.
Mines in Southern Illinois were served by Missouri Pacific. In 1955, after approx 100 years of steam locomotives moving coal, MoPac was replacing all steam locos serving the mines in Southern Illinois with diesel.
The 1st picture shows some MoPac "brass" along with the crew for the last run of one of the mine trains. The next 3 pictures are all the locos being unceremoniously pulled to the scrapyards. The journey was from near Carbondale, Il to Dupo, Il, roughly 100 miles. The end of an era.
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For a train buff, those last photos are heart breaking. I know things move on, but that is like watching history going to the wreckers. ::mdm:: :(
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cudgee wrote: Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:40 am For a train buff, those last photos are heart breaking. I know things move on, but that is like watching history going to the wreckers. ::mdm:: :(
My sentiments also, I had read the article that accompanied these pictures some years ago. The memory of the pictures stuck with me, when this thread popped up, I did a search and found them for inclusion.
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Nice pictures and vids, guys! I hope to do that ride sometime too, stag. ::tu::

Here's a few more pictures I found on Twitter that I just ran across again. The 7th train picture has the old Cumberland Rolling Mill and Forge in the background, when the railroad used to fabricate their own parts in house. The 8th picture is a Penn GG-1, I always thought they looked cool.
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