Time Machine

[joseph2]

I would go to the Garden of Eden and throw rocks at a serpent,give two people a lecture on obedience.Then off to 1910 Marion,Ohio a very busy rail junction. Joe G.

[joseph2]

I would go to the Garden of Eden and throw rocks at a serpent,give two people a lecture on obedience.Then off to 1910 Marion,Ohio a very busy rail junction. Joe G.

[Anonymous]

Ft. Worth when T&P was around!! Tower 55 would have T&P, Rock Island, ATSF, Fort Worth & Denver (Burlington), Katy, some SP/Cotton Belt, and Frisco even ran a little in Ft. Worth.

[douginut]

My Tardis would drop me off at the inner loop to photograph C,A,&E, CNS&M, CTA CRT wooden, through the newest trains just park the Tardis on the platform, and skip back and forth through the years. Riding on all of the abandonned lines. see the lower Wilson Avenue station, get off at Buena, walk the half block to my grandparent's house, seeing the fountain with water in it.
my pocket full of tokens all day long into the night. Off at Upper Wilson again and down the marble stairs and dodge across the trolley tracks to the other side of broadway and the Green Mill, to listen to the Jazz greats.

To Staten Island, to ride the SIRT North route and the ferry to Brooklyn, by trolley to Ebbetts Field to watch the Cubs and Dodgers play. up and down the L's of new york ,now gone.

Doug, in Utah

[Anonymous]

This is a GREAT question !!!!!!!!!!!1

I would have to shoot the Erie-Lackawanna in the early 60's in my area---Buffalo.
This was just after the merger so I would see both previous paint schemes , plus in this era I could see NYC, PRR , LV , N&W , TH&B all fighting for Buffalo's grain and steel traffic. Plus the Phobe Snow.

[Anonymous]

The late 40's. Union Station Chicago. Just let me jump on any of the famous old trains going anywhere that left that beautiful old station.

[BNSFNUT]

Any where on the ERIE in the days of steam.

[Anonymous]

1940's & 50's, Chicago, at the junction of Englewood Station. PRR, NYC, NP and RI all had passenger trains that stopped there. The pictures I'd have taken!

[Anonymous]

GN during 1968-69

[Eriediamond]

I'd like to go back to the late 40's-early 50's and catch all those berks and niagras high-balling out of Buffalo along the shores of Lake Erie between Angola and Silver Creek, N.Y. Man, what a sight they were!!!!!

[tomwatkins]

Saluda Mountain on the Southern would be my first choice. Then cruise up to Asheville to photograph the yard there very thoroughly. Then I'd take the Blue Goose out to Murphy and photograph the Depot there. Photos of that depot are very hard to come by. I've got one and I need to scratchbuild it. The search goes on. Then over to Charlotte or Spencer to photograph the parade of Ps-4's on the Washington to Atlanta mainline. And then on and on. Where can I mailorder a Tardis?
Have Fun,
Tom Watkins

[Big_Boy_4005]

Not where, but when. Just drop me back in 1950, and right here in the Twin Cities, and I'll ride the rails to anywhere I want to go. Take the street car downtown and buy some Lionel trains, and maybe hang around the depot and take some pictures of the Hiawatha, Empire Builder, North Coast Limited, The 400, Zephyr, Rocket etc. Then maybe jump on one and go to Chicago and do it all again!!!!

[CP5415]

Anywhere on the CPR from about 1940 to the present.
Only to see the Selkirks & Hudsons working for a living instead of just pulling the company train.

Gordon

[Fergmiester]

I'd ride the C&O, all of it circa early 50's with a suitcase full of Ektachrome.

[Anonymous]

I'd Go take a ride on the Empire Builder GN form Chicago to Seattle & back again.

[Hawks05]

other,

although i'd like to go back and be able to take pictures of some Burlington Northern stuff. but i think my trips this summer that i plan on making down along the Mississippi River will be just fine. although it will be mainly BNSF that i'll take and then going up to Duluth MN i'll probably shoot some stuff up there. nothing beats a nice scenic drive down the Wisconsin side of the "Mighty Mississippi."

[AggroJones]

Out of the places listed, I'd say Sherman Hill. FEFs, 4-12-2s, BigBoys, E units, Challengers, BigBlows. Its all tight. [8D]

[Anonymous]

Sherman Hill. It'd be awesome to see Big Boys and FEF's powering up the hill.

[GerFust]

I'd take a look at some of the local Fallen Flags in the area - shortlines and interurbans that were torn up. In particular, the Lansing and St. Johns Electric Railway, and the Pontiac, Oxford and Northern, both in Michigan.

-Jer

[Anonymous]

California in 1941, perhaps ride on the Daylight's maiden voyage.

[lupo]

I chose Sherman hill, late fifties, would like to see a 7 mile freight train double-headed by 2 BigBoys, and maybe later a BigBlow coming the other way.

[Anonymous]

I would like to go back and be there to see the driving of the Golden Spike.

[vsmith]

Jezzeeezzz! If I had my own TARDIS, the last thing I would do is watch trains, I think watching the Pyramids being constructed might be a bit mor interesting. Also I'd take the opportunity to OFF'ed Hitler back in WWI (easier to make it "accidental") OFF'ed Joe Stalin, ( he really destroyed that country ) and gone back in time to 1776 and convince Jefferson and those boy's that they had better outlaw slavery then and there or 10s of 1000s will die in a bloody Civil War a few decades later. or failing that to make sure Booth got Mickey Finn'ed and Shanghied on the first Whaling boat leaving the US.

[orsonroy]

Well, I'd fire up my own TARDIS, and start off fanning the Nickel Plate for awhile, but I'd definitely hit all the spots listed eventually!

[Jetrock]

Once again, I'd vote for Sacramento--really, any time. From the creation of Theodore Judah's Sacramento Short Line, the first railroad in the western United States, to the start of the Transcontinental Railroad, to the creation and joining of two California interurbans to create the longest electric railroad in the West, to the introduction of the last transcontinental, Western Pacific, to the sight of massive SP cab-forwards carrying 20th century freight and WP "California Zephyr" diesel runs, to the little PG&E trolleys which disappeared only to be replaced 40 years later by Regional Transit light rail...all the way up to the late 1990's when UP closed down the Sacramento yard and shops, and turned the SN's Haggin Yard into a bike trail...

Or even into the future, when the CSRM will have a functioning museum in the old Shops, a seeing the UP line reoriented and the massive SP station moved to meet it (as well as a light rail line directly to the airport), and maybe even seeing the Sacramento Southern line make a run all the way south to Hood!

The era of railroads is not over...we stand on the brink of the return of the trains to their rightful place.

[Anonymous]

My own TARDIS?

Well I'd start with the Stockton and Darlington.

[Anonymous]

The SP coast route is my prototype inspiration, ca 1910.

Randy

[Anonymous]

I'd have a hard time deciding but it would definitely be east of the Mississippi.

I'd really like to experience the Reading T-1's in freight action from 1945-1957. The little I managed to see of them in Rambles service just wasn't enough! They're awesome engines.

Missing Blue Ridge Grade and Horse Shoe Curve were things I'd like to experience too, preferably in the 1945-1955 era

Seeing Bando Blue Pacifics pulling out of Camden Station during the 1940-1950's is something else I've always dreamed about.

Naturally, a visit to the entire Ma&Pa would be in there during the 1935-1955 era.

Sure hope someone comes up with the Time Machine fast.

Roger