Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?

[Santa Fe]

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SKOL 4199 WB local

[Just Plain Dave]

[Santa Fe]

KCS best paint scheme on the rails today!!
IMHO!!!!

[Waukonda]

KCS best paint scheme on the rails today!!
IMHO!!!!

I agree 100%. The first time I saw it was a few years ago as I was driving the Great River Road along the Mississippi. I was headed North, and a Southbound train on the tracks adjacent to the road went by with the locos adorned in that paint scheme. I immediately reversed direction and followed alongside for 10 miles or so.

Here is the new logo, and new look since the CP merger, not nearly as striking imo.

[1967redrider]

CP has really increased their footprint now, from Canada into Mexico. Hope they're not overextended.

[Santa Fe]

KCS 4824 on point of EB stacks. At Udall Ks on BNSF Ark City Sub. KCS units are on borrowed time now that CP owns em

[Santa Fe]

BNSF 8420 EB empty Red Rock coal train with 2 DPU units on the rear rolling back to the mine in powder River country of Wyoming. Red Rock Oklahoma power generating station Average is a loaded train about every day about 15K tons

[1967redrider]

Those are awesome.

I need to read up on the Kansas City Southern de Mexico history.

[TPK]

Nice pictures folks.

[1967redrider]

My brother sent me this AMTRAK Heritage picture. I think someone sent it to him, because it looks like he's mowing hay under the powerlines. Those powerlines pretty much cut our farm in half.

*edit- that's an ALC-42.

[Waukonda]

My brother sent me this AMTRAK Heritage picture. I think someone sent it to him, because it looks like he's mowing hay under the powerlines. Those powerlines pretty much cut our farm in half.

Interesting picture, John, I had forgotten about that look for Amtrak. Thanks for giving this thread something new.

[1967redrider]

My brother sent me this AMTRAK Heritage picture. I think someone sent it to him, because it looks like he's mowing hay under the powerlines. Those powerlines pretty much cut our farm in half.

Interesting picture, John, I had forgotten about that look for Amtrak. Thanks for giving this thread something new.

The railroad never sleeps, Ike.

[GSPTOPDOG]

My brother sent me this AMTRAK Heritage picture. I think someone sent it to him, because it looks like he's mowing hay under the powerlines. Those powerlines pretty much cut our farm in half.

The railroad never sleeps, Ike.

And it seems when I am on the AAPK forum... neither do I ...

[GSPTOPDOG]

I hear that train a coming...

[1967redrider]

Nice! Skip gave me a knife like that.

[GSPTOPDOG]

Nice! Skip gave me a knife like that.

Skip gets (2) for being awesome! ... There were several of these Winchesters put together with variations of this "Getaway" them as I recall...

[Theo]

Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.

[Waukonda]

Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.

Nice post, Theo, and that is some great family history.

[Theo]

Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.

Nice post, Theo, and that is some great family history.

Thanks Ike, very nice memories,...even slept in a caboose for a week one time...

[Quick Steel]

Theo, riding in the engine or sleeping in the caboose, these must have been sensational experiences. This is true at any age but especially if you were a youngster at the time. These must certainly be treasured memories.

[Theo]

Theo, riding in the engine or sleeping in the caboose, these must have been sensational experiences. This is true at any age but especially if you were a youngster at the time. These must certainly be treasured memories.

They most certainly are QS, and an experience I will never forget...

[1967redrider]

Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.

Very cool memories, Theo. I remember in kindergarten/elementary school visiting the railroad with my dad and pap, both were B&O carmen. So I never got but 1 or 2 opportunities to ride in a diesel. But my dad did run an electromagnetic crane for loading scrap metal and I was in it often. The only maintenance that Burro type crane got was him spitting Redman chewing tobacco on the cable reel.

I remember being in an airhouse that my pap worked out of in the West Bound Repair Yards. Also being in the offices in the tower and East Bound Repair Yards. My dad didn't work in the locomotive shop until he was close to retirement, around 2010, and that's after a lot of restrictions were put in place to keep non-employees out, for safety reasons.

The railroad was a much different place when I was a kid.

[GSPTOPDOG]

Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.

Wow! What a cool thing to do as a kid. I always wanted to hop on a train when I was kid, (and become a hobo ) but never got the chance... maybe for the best .... as far as the hobo part anyway...

[Theo]

Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.

Wow! What a cool thing to do as a kid. I always wanted to hop on a train when I was kid, (and become a hobo ) but never got the chance... maybe for the best .... as far as the hobo part anyway...

Actually, my uncle told me when, my dad and him where in there late teens they hopped trains from Vincennes Indiana t9 Houston Texas..stayed a week doing odd jobs and came back the same way..at least that is what my uncle told me. My dad always told me " you don't want to hear that story when I asked"..

[Theo]

Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.

Wow! What a cool thing to do as a kid. I always wanted to hop on a train when I was kid, (and become a hobo ) but never got the chance... maybe for the best .... as far as the hobo part anyway...

Actually, my uncle told me when, my dad and him where in there late teens they hopped trains from Vincennes Indiana t9 Houston Texas..stayed a week doing odd jobs and came back the same way..at least that is what my uncle told me. My dad always told me " you don't want to hear that story " when I asked.