Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?

[WillyCamaro]

Most awesome John!

Really want to take a trip on a steamer, one day soon I hope!

[MissouriGuerrilla]

My father worked for Union Pacific for 33 years until they bought out his job some years back.

One neat thing during his time there was when the first "Cannonball Run" movie was out and there's a scene where a white guy and black guy are a team driving a pickup and they jump a U.P. flat car. My father got curious and had a friend track down that car. Sure enough, it was right there in the yard where my dad worked in Kansas City.

[Waukonda]

My father worked for Union Pacific for 33 years until they bought out his job some years back.

One neat thing during his time there was when the first "Cannonball Run" movie was out and there's a scene where a white guy and black guy are a team driving a pickup and they jump a U.P. flat car. My father got curious and had a friend track down that car. Sure enough, it was right there in the yard where my dad worked in Kansas City.

Good story!

[1967redrider]

That is pretty cool, MG.

[TPK]

Last night we went to the Cumberland Christmas Tree Lighting and I talked my nephew into walking down to the train station. He wouldn't pose with the train, but I snapped some pictures.

Sorry to report the steam engine wasn't in service. But The Grinch was there on horseback.

Great pictures John!

[1967redrider]

Last night we went to the Cumberland Christmas Tree Lighting and I talked my nephew into walking down to the train station. He wouldn't pose with the train, but I snapped some pictures.

Sorry to report the steam engine wasn't in service. But The Grinch was there on horseback.

Great pictures John!

Thanks, Tom. Here's one my brother texted me yesterday, from Instagram. Frostburg Depot if you can't read it.

[Waukonda]

You guys, John, David, Cudgee, have been posting some really good stuff in the last week or so, I am enjoying it.

I have been giving you all a break from coal trains, which is about all I have been encountering. Here are a couple of Grand Trunk locos moving some local freight.

[TPK]

Last night we went to the Cumberland Christmas Tree Lighting and I talked my nephew into walking down to the train station. He wouldn't pose with the train, but I snapped some pictures.

Sorry to report the steam engine wasn't in service. But The Grinch was there on horseback.

Great pictures John!

Thanks, Tom. Here's one my brother texted me yesterday, from Instagram. Frostburg Depot if you can't read it.

Cool! One of my cousins lives in Frostburg.

[TPK]

You guys, John, David, Cudgee, have been posting some really good stuff in the last week or so, I am enjoying it.

I have been giving you all a break from coal trains, which is about all I have been encountering. Here are a couple of Grand Trunk locos moving some local freight.

[DM11]

You guys, John, David, Cudgee, have been posting some really good stuff in the last week or so, I am enjoying it.

I have been giving you all a break from coal trains, which is about all I have been encountering. Here are a couple of Grand Trunk locos moving some local freight.

Good pic Ike! I dont mind a steady stream of coal trains. I just love trains!

[TPK]

You guys, John, David, Cudgee, have been posting some really good stuff in the last week or so, I am enjoying it.

I have been giving you all a break from coal trains, which is about all I have been encountering. Here are a couple of Grand Trunk locos moving some local freight.

Good pic Ike! I dont mind a steady stream of coal trains. I just love trains!

Ditto!

[DM11]

Intermodal as far as you can see.

[1967redrider]

Cool double-stack photos, David.


Hope you guys aren't getting bored with my 1309 posts, here's one climbing grade en route to the Frostburg Depot during a test run. Not a full manifest, so the diesel isn't in tow for added dynamic braking.

[DM11]

Never get tired of steam

CP frac sand train.

[cudgee]

You guys, John, David, Cudgee, have been posting some really good stuff in the last week or so, I am enjoying it.

I have been giving you all a break from coal trains, which is about all I have been encountering. Here are a couple of Grand Trunk locos moving some local freight.

Great shot, looks like a photo from the fifties/sixties.

[Waukonda]

Thank you Cudgee!

Great pic of that CP, David!

Aoways enjoy the 1309 posts, John.

[Waukonda]

I missed out on an opportunity to get a pic of a UP track evaluation unit a while back, in the right place at the right time for this CN tho. Being an old passenger coach car which was converted to use, it looks a lot like a bus traveling the rails. They added two diesel engines and it can run independently in either direction. The UP unit that I saw was much more modern looking, having been built specifically for rail testing and evaluation.

[1967redrider]

Really cool, Ike! Reminds me of a diner car with an observation dome in the middle. How clever.

[Waukonda]

BNSF on a sunny December day.....

[DM11]

I missed out on an opportunity to get a pic of a UP track evaluation unit a while back, in the right place at the right time for this CN tho. Being an old passenger coach car which was converted to use, it looks a lot like a bus traveling the rails. They added two diesel engines and it can run independently in either direction. The UP unit that I saw was much more modern looking, having been built specifically for rail testing and evaluation.

That's neat!

[DM11]

BNSF on a sunny December day.....

Good pics Ike! Saw a coal train earlier today. But wasn't able to get a pic.

[1967redrider]

Nice, Ike.


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[TPK]

Cool double-stack photos, David.


Hope you guys aren't getting bored with my 1309 posts, here's one climbing grade en route to the Frostburg Depot during a test run. Not a full manifest, so the diesel isn't in tow for added dynamic braking.

COOL!!!

[TPK]

Cool pictures David & Ike!

[Waukonda]

Nice, Ike.


Building a Pennsylvania T1 4-4-4-4 Speed Demon-

I like Mike Armstrong videos and I don't think I had ever seen that one before, thanks!