All About Pocket Knives

MissouriGuerrilla wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 3:57 pm 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.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 12:19 am 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.

TPK wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:43 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 12:19 am 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 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:23 pm

TPK wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:43 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 12:19 am 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 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:08 pm 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.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:08 pm 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 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:52 am

Waukonda wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:08 pm 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!

Waukonda wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:08 pm 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.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 5:38 pm 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.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 7:32 pm BNSF on a sunny December day.....

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 5:18 pm 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.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 3:42 pm Nice, Ike.


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