vsmith narig01: What about Amtraks F40's? or FL9's I can barely remember the latter at Grand Central and 125th St in the McGinnis scheme. Thx IGN When the tourist line the Grand Canyon Railroad began using refurbished F-40's, thats when I started to feel old.
narig01: What about Amtraks F40's? or FL9's I can barely remember the latter at Grand Central and 125th St in the McGinnis scheme. Thx IGN
What about Amtraks F40's? or FL9's I can barely remember the latter at Grand Central and 125th St in the McGinnis scheme.
Thx IGN
When the tourist line the Grand Canyon Railroad began using refurbished F-40's, thats when I started to feel old.
F-40's? I remember when the SDP-40F's were new! Remembered them as being quieter than the E's and classic F's. My best memory of the SDP-40F's was seeing the ones pulling the Coast Starlight around the horseshoe curve just north of SLO while seated in the dining car.
- Erik
....Well....what is now rare, such as street cars back about just before WWII that were the normal scene {such as}, in Johnstown, Pa. Can still hear the flanges squealing negotiating those 90 degree corners in the city, and the "banging" noise of wheels passing over switches, rail joints, etc.
Then right after that war, the much newer PCC cars with the "insulated" wheels making a mutted sound doing the same thing as the earlier units on the same routes.
And.....During the teenage years....the "normal" engines in our area pulling coal trains, of course were steam engines....Just normal to see them...because, that is what they had to do the job. {B&O, Somerset & Cambria} branch in Pennsylvania. Those engines {if any remaining, are museum pieces now}....!
Quentin
narig01 What about Amtraks F40's? or FL9's I can barely remember the latter at Grand Central and 125th St in the McGinnis scheme. Thx IGN
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wallyworld A better question at my age is what doesn't. One thing I noticed in my reaction is that the trains seem out of place in most museum settings, taken out of their natural environment in "the real world" ..and even if they are operational they seem like wild animals in a zoo. Not that this is a complaint, just an observation in seeing thing preserved in aspic that were once a part of the larger work-a- day environment ..Like the old CTA .."baldies" I used to ride on the Evanston Express swaying, grinding and squealing along.the Loop..no AC just open windows.A great tactile experience. Even the old CNW bi-levels without their snoozing business types ( LOL) missing the pre PA announcement of the conductor walking down the aisle " Win-net -ka.....Winnteka..Next!" Endless gates sounding.. Some stuff cannot be preserved except in memory.
A better question at my age is what doesn't. One thing I noticed in my reaction is that the trains seem out of place in most museum settings, taken out of their natural environment in "the real world" ..and even if they are operational they seem like wild animals in a zoo. Not that this is a complaint, just an observation in seeing thing preserved in aspic that were once a part of the larger work-a- day environment
..Like the old CTA .."baldies" I used to ride on the Evanston Express swaying, grinding and squealing along.the Loop..no AC just open windows.A great tactile experience.
Even the old CNW bi-levels without their snoozing business types ( LOL) missing the pre PA announcement of the conductor walking down the aisle " Win-net -ka.....Winnteka..Next!" Endless gates sounding..
Some stuff cannot be preserved except in memory.
Or the whiring sound of an R-1 NY subway car. Newer equipment uses a different gear arrangement that is much quieter.
Rgds IGN
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Cris_261 Although it doesn't make feel like a museum piece (yet), the Rio Grande SD40T-2 preserved at the Ogden Union Station brings to mind a lot of memories of SP T-2's pulling sugar beet trains through Southern California in the 1970s and 1980s.
Although it doesn't make feel like a museum piece (yet), the Rio Grande SD40T-2 preserved at the Ogden Union Station brings to mind a lot of memories of SP T-2's pulling sugar beet trains through Southern California in the 1970s and 1980s.
I've only seen those blimps in museums. I would have liked to have seen them in the East Bay or on the Northwestern Pacific. All I can do is watch videos of. Thx IGN
The cab forward in Sacramento CA. I remember going to Southern Pacific's shops in the Los Angeles area(early to mid 50's) when I was very young and watching repairs to the running cab forwards at that time. Also the PE tracks that ran on the boundary between Lynnwood and Compton CA. We could ride our bicycles (early to mid 60's) to the Pike in Long Beach CA. from South Gate CA with not a worry in our heads.
erikem mentioned the century-old PE blimps. I remember those things running to and from San Pedro, on a route which is now a trench for port trains, more than half a century ago.
Museum Pieces and feeling the same?
AMFLEET: I remember seeing/riding AMFLEET cars right as they were introduced in 1975 and now almost 40 years later they are still running.
SILVERLINER III: Forty years ago they were real hot-rods on PC Harrisburg-Philly runs and some even carried an attendant and a small bar....fast forward they are still here.
Went to the Minnesota Transportation Museum's Jackson St. Roundhouse with my grandson. Got to ride in a Soo Line caboose extended vision caboose (which I remember seeing on trains only 20-25 years ago on the line going past my house) and GN "Hustle Muscle", an SD-45 from the sixties also in the museum. Plus we took a ride on a restored "Twin City Lines" bus from the fifties, I can remember riding on those buses with my Mom back in the sixties.
BaltACD When they start putting SD-40's in museum's by the score will will feel like a fossil.
When they start putting SD-40's in museum's by the score will will feel like a fossil.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
When VW Beetles and Busses started going for collector prices beginning a few years ago, thats when I said "Aw ya gotta be kiddin' me..."
A couple of weeks ago I saw a stillwell coach in SC. It had been converted to use as a casino some years back(SC outlawed video poker a few years back). Now its being used as a fireworks store. I think it was one of the cars that was used on the Erie in NJ. Then went to the Gettysburg RR.
One that gets me is a plain 50' outside post box car. Sound strange? Well, based on the appliances on this particular car, I recognize it as one that was absolute state-of-the-art when I worked for the Central 'a few' years ago. The one I'm thinking of kind of took me by surprise when I saw it at the entrance to Railroad Avenue Park in Lewisville, TX. The park developers had to have moved it a good 100 yards from the closest rails (DART's line to Denton) and raised it about 50'. They completely refinished the car with no lettering so I have no idea who its original owner was.
ChuckAllen, TX
Was driving around Kingston, NY on the Route 209 bypass several weeks ago when I spied the hulks of two former DL&W MU's in a field adjacent to the northboun lanes. It was startling because I forgot there were several of those carsI rode from 1945 to the end at several museums including Kingston, Phonecia, and Milford, NY.
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i remember gm&o s passenger fleet i remember taking midnight special to chitown to spend the day in the city. the el was a great way to get around cheap. i took a few rides on north shore line trains as well as the south shore. what fond memories.i grew up near the walbash branch line in pontiac. it was crewed by 5 brothers one lived across the street iwent bto school with his daughter. he gave me many caboose rides this line has been abandoned for almost 30 years now
Two stand out for me
First the Pioneer Zephyr I rode from St. Joseph to Lincoln and back before it went to a museum that is the railroad musem piece I remember.
The other museum piece I remember was the maiden flight of the first Boein jetliner the 707 in 1954 from Renton Boeing field. My dad worked at Boeing and made sure my brother and I witnessed this historic event. I can even rmeber the Chief Test Pilot's name Tex Johnson.
Al - in - Stockton
To continue this: What about cabooses? Hard to think of these being replaced by a Federal Rear End Device! Thx Ian
Every railroad museum I go into makes me seem old to other people, but it is just the way it was for me. My younger sister who never had the experience of living in a station used to say I was the youngest eighty year person she had ever seen!
There are simply too many items and pieces for me to list.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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The photo of the day for 5/17/11.
I rode a regularly scheduled passenger train (Southern Railway #4 Asheville - Old Fort) pulled by #6141 when I was a teenager.
Now 36 years later #6141 is in semi-retirement with a different number and a newer paint scheme at RJ Corman's Old Kentucky Dinner Train. I've been there to ride behind her again.... and had a pretty nice prime beef while I was at it.
The F40PH becoming a rarity. The largest fleet of F40PH locomotives is running on Metra, and they'll probably have a longer career than the BN E units.
While it may not be exactly on topic, Orange Empire's PE blimps 418 and 498 will be 100 years old next year. What is a bit disconcerting is realizing that they will have spent half their lifetime in Perris on their 100th birthday.
As for something a bit more on-topic, I remember when the SDP40F's and Amfleet's were new.
I probably misnamed this thread. It is still nice to reminesce about times past.
Other things EMD SD 45's. SP In their last years was reengining them with 16 cylinder engines. The last time I was down in Houston UP had a bunch on the dead line behind a warehouse were I was picking up a load.
For me it is the Comet 1 coaches built in 1970 for the Erie-Lackawanna for use in commuter service. These beautiful cars were built by Pullman and were heated, cooled and lit using Head End Power (HEP) provided by the new GE U34CH locomotives, the first diesels to provide HEP from the constant speed prime mover. The U-Boats were retired in the mid 90's, the last of the Comet 1s were retired only a couple years ago. 3 are on the roster of the Whippany RR Museum here in NJ and they are used in excursion service. Every modern passenger car out there uses the technology introduced by these cars. I saw these cars enter regular service and I have seen them all retired.
I remember DAD taking me to the yards in Roanoke and watching A`s , Y`s , J`s , M`s , and many others . I sure wish I could relive those days . Growing up in Roanoke was great for a railroad fan . RON
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