I sometimes dream about trains running across viaducts in my hometown, usually without incident but sometimes with engines and cars cascading onto the ground. Other times, I dream about an Erie Lackawanna line, almost at nightfall, with semaphores and a grade crossing, sometimes with a rail hard nearby. And, a couple times I've dreamed of having to walk across a bridge that in real life carried a county road across the river, it in the dream carries an EL line across the same river when it's at flood stage.
Years ago, I would dream of being in a subway station. The trains were always maintenance trains with flatcars.
After I built my HO scale subways, those dreams stopped. I sort of miss them.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
riogrande5761Shock Control I dreamed I was in a freight yard, and the cars all had horn hook couplers! That's not a dream, it's a nightmare!
I dreamed I was in a freight yard, and the cars all had horn hook couplers!
That's not a dream, it's a nightmare!
Ha ha!
Shock Control I dreamed I was in a freight yard, and the cars all had horn hook couplers!
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
A few years ago I had a dream that I was riding in a locomotive with Warren Buffet and he asked me to run BNSF for him. He said he didn’t know anything about railroads, he just bought it for the government subsidies.
It wasn't last night, but I once had a dream where I stumbled on a B&O yard in Baltimore with steam switchers. I think it occurred after the end of B&O and as far I know, I never saw any B&O steam, but it sure seemed real.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Last night, in my dream it was sometime in 1998 or 1999, I was 5 or 6 at the time, coming home from daycare in the backseat when a small traffic jam due to a red traffic light occured on Alicia Parkway down here in SoCal. While mom was waiting for the light to turn green, I looked out the car window to the south and noticed the car had just crossed an overpass and saw two train tracks strecthing out from under the bridge at an angle. After about maybe a few seconds, I saw what looked like to be a Grey Amtrak F40PH with ditchlights pulling a 73' Budd Baggage, two Amfleet Coaches, an Amfleet Cafe, another Amfleet Coach and an ex Metroliner Cabcar with three strobes on the roof heading northbound to Los Angeles, all painted in the tricolor Phase III Scheme. I knew right away it had to be a San Diegan. The Blue/Grey Surfliner F59PHI's did not appear until maybe late 1998/early 1999, so the F40PH's were still in charge on the Surfline. Little did I know the F40PH's would only last two more years before they were all retired/sold off in 2001. This photo can never be repeated as there is only one Amfleet trainset used as backup, the metroliner cab cars were sent to the northeast corridor, and the bi level Surfliner cars have since been the norm. When I first saw the Blue/Grey F59PHI's the following year, I knew something was on the way....
Think of this post as "A Look Back" or "In My Own Words" from the author's point of view.
Only slightly off topic -- For Christmas, I received a T-shirt that says, "I don't snore, I dream I'm a Train."
Hornblower
Shock ControlI've also had dreams of seeing a real-life, full-scale Tyco PRR maintenance caboose with floodlight,
Really, well after 40 years of construction, my dreams ( kind of nightmares) are always about work, climbing on buildings, huge concrete pours, getting from one side of the job site to the other, etc., so be content with having dreams about trains, as long as your not getting run over by one.
Mike.
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I've also had dreams of seeing a real-life, full-scale Tyco PRR maintenance caboose with floodlight, the warhorse that remained in the catalog for decades.
You forgot to mention the classic train entering a tunnel.
I remember a handful of early 50s dreams of steamers negotiating (trackless) Wisner Street in front of our house in Jackson, Michigan. The NYC main line between Detroit and Chicago was a short block away.
Phooey on Frued, I'll simply chalk it up to the suggestibility of children! We'd do well to ask Mr. Otte to close this thread to psychoanalysts.
John
mbinsewiDid you go to the yard office and ask why they haven't changed over to Kadee's? - Mike.
dknelson"Paging Doctor Freud, paging Doctor Sigmund Freud ...." Somehow this reminds me of a cartoon decades ago in Model Railroader. Two railroaders are talking in a yard and one has his arm in a sling. He's saying "I thought it was a grab iron but it turned out to be nothing but a nasty ridge of plastic!" Dave Nelson
Somehow this reminds me of a cartoon decades ago in Model Railroader. Two railroaders are talking in a yard and one has his arm in a sling. He's saying "I thought it was a grab iron but it turned out to be nothing but a nasty ridge of plastic!"
Dave Nelson
Ha ha! In the dream, I'm thinking, "They had these things in the real world? Crazy..."
"Paging Doctor Freud, paging Doctor Sigmund Freud ...."
Did you go to the yard office and ask why they haven't changed over to Kadee's?