Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?

[Waukonda]

Sweet U.P. EMDs, Ike!

I guess my next trip will need to be to Cass, WV to check out the Shays-

That would be awesome!

[Quick Steel]

Great video. Amazing whistle music.

[DM11]

[Quick Steel]

Enlarged your photos have more punch, especially the first one.

[1967redrider]

Cool shots David.

[TPK]

Cool pictures David!

[TPK]

Sweet U.P. EMDs, Ike!

I guess my next trip will need to be to Cass, WV to check out the Shays-



Those guys really know how to toot their own horns.

[DM11]

A long UP coal train just rumbled by......

Ike

[DM11]

Sweet U.P. EMDs, Ike!

I guess my next trip will need to be to Cass, WV to check out the Shays-

Those guys really know how to toot their own horns.

Like those Shays!

[Waukonda]

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Really nice pics, David!

[1967redrider]

I found this one for cudgee.

[cudgee]

I found this one for cudgee.

[1967redrider]

After coming back from the farm yesterday evening, I decided to do some decal work, Santa Fe 3450 4-6-4 Hudson rides again!



Imagine cruising along pulling freight at 110mph in this iron behemoth.

[Quick Steel]

Highly interesting video, redrider. I enjoyed it.

[1967redrider]

Highly interesting video, redrider. I enjoyed it.

I love the sound of that whistle, I think he called it a 5 Chime. I've been watching some YouTube whistle vids, I think I like the Santa Fe 5 Chime the best, there's also single, 3 and 6 Chime whistles that I've found vids for. The compilation ones are pretty cool.

[1967redrider]

I got my C&O smoking caboose up and running on the layout this week, a couple shorts-






They're a little trickier to post.

[mrwatch]

CSX truck.

[1967redrider]

Railroad history lesson about Santa Fe 2-10-4 Texas steam engines on the PRR in 1956, very interesting.

[1967redrider]

Another excellent video on the same subject-

[Waukonda]

Another excellent video on the same subject-

John, you have made many good posts to this thread, those last 2 videos are probably my favorite. It is great that someone had the foresight to video this, and even greater that the segments survived the years. Those old locomotives make some beautiful music, thanks for sharing.

[1967redrider]

Another excellent video on the same subject-

John, you have made many good posts to this thread, those last 2 videos are probably my favorite. It is great that someone had the foresight to video this, and even greater that the segments survived the years. Those old locomotives make some beautiful music, thanks for sharing.

I, too, love them, Ike. Can you imagine being the engineer? That's what I want to be when I grow up.

[TPK]

I'm sitting here watching "Lost Places". They were just showing a ghost town called Thurmond, WV. Thurmond was build up around coal mines & trains. Here is a Wikipedia link if anyone is interested. Oh, trains still drive through Thurmond but I guess they don't stop there anymore. On "Lost Places" they showed a CSX train passing through. Only a handful of people still live there.

Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurmond,_West_Virginia

[Waukonda]

That is some good history, Tom!

I normally see only Union Pacific taffic on this line, but today it was the Whitetail Express highballin' thru......

[1967redrider]

I'm sitting here watching "Lost Places". They were just showing a ghost town called Thurmond, WV. Thurmond was build up around coal mines & trains. Here is a Wikipedia link if anyone is interested. Oh, trains still drive through Thurmond but I guess they don't stop there anymore. On "Lost Places" they showed a CSX train passing through. Only a handful of people still live there.

Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurmond,_West_Virginia

Hobo Shoestring did a video from there a couple months ago.

[Waukonda]

John, that is a pretty interesting video, it is amazing that those old buildings not only aren't covered in graffiti, their windows are also intact. I was not familiar with Hobo Shoestring, I am going to check out some of his other videos.

Here are a few different looks at a UP coal train....front and rear in the countryside, and up close through town.