have You had any cool railroad dreams come true

[BNSFGP38]

Had sex in the cuopola of a private caboose( dont own but owner let me have it for the weeked while he was on another trip) while on a excursion. [}:)]

Wasnt really my dream, but she thought it was kinky.[C):-)]

[Gunns]

I get to be the lead machinist for the restoration of a million pound steamer..... and have a good shot at becoming cab crew too <grin>.

The 2926, The War Baby Bellows!
Gunns

[ValleyX]

Hey, CSX, I've had that dream, too, more than once, wake up and wonder if you're called, seems very real that you were called, but it turns out that you weren't.

Don't know if this qualifies as a cool rail dream or not but have any of you other working rails ever dreamed that you blew right by a stop signal and decided, oh heck, I'm already fired, might as well keep going. I've had that dream several times and always wake up wondering if it really happened and maybe I'm out of service. Thankfully, it's never happened and may it always be so.

No, I don't think that really qualifies as a cool dream. Sorry.

[jeaton]

Can't you take a short break and warm the toes and fingers on the switch heaters in Frontier that have to be turned on about 6 months out of the year?[:-^][:-^]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rich747us

I sure have had RR dreams come true! Just the other week, I got accepted into the AMDG conductor school in Cincinnati! As long as all goes well, I'll be working for CSX out of Buffalo NY this fall! [:)]

Congratulations. Once you get through school and get to the OJT, get out and get some carharts a size or so too big. You'll need 'em to fit your long underwear, jeans and another layer or two under them. It is COLD pulling pins at Frontier Yard. I speak from experience. Get some GOOD boots and gloves too. RR will take care of thje rest...

LC

[jeaton]

csxengineer98. Think you got it bad now? Wait until you can sit in the cab blindfolded and still know exactly where you are on any run you make just from the seat of the pants. And then still have 24 years.....9months.....4...etc...lol. Well, at least it is honest work.

It is just soooo much better to be a rail fan and maybe work in a non operating job. I've ridden the head end of both freight and pre-Amtrak passenger, the latter at 100 mph, and also had many trips in office cars. Furthermore, I have also gotten to go into railroad facilities where now you would need authority from somebody close to God to get in. I don't think I ever dreamed about the stuff, but it was cool.

Jay

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by virlon

You BET I had one come true !!!
I RETIRED....

Virlon
Save your ticket.... the P.E. will rise again.

lucky you...i got 31 years .... 9 months... 2 weeks... 4 days... 3 hours... 47 mins..and 50..49....48...47...46....you get the point..lol
csx engineer

[daveklepper]

When I was a youngster I dreamt I would like to run streetcars, subway trains, and railroad trains. When I was a teenager, a motorman on The Bronx's Bailey Avenue Line, one car every 45 minutes on the line, but double track and smooth, let me run the car and gave good instructions. Then for years I operated at the trolley museum run by the Branford Electric Ry. Assoc. in East Haven and Branford, CT. Car TARS 629 there was similar to the car I ran on Bailey Avenue. On an ERA fan trip the motor instructor gave me the controls on the Pelham Bay Line from Hunts Pont Avenue to Elberts Lane, the former in the subway and the latter on the el structure after about three other stations. The equipment was the old standard IRT "Low-V" 1916 era stuff, a five car train, and I did make perfect stops at all the 6-Cars station markers at each station. And then when doing my research while at MIT after a summer at EMD I ran a B&M GP-7 on the Portsmouth - Sommerville freight. Then the 4-8-0- at the Capitol Park Engine Sheds in Praetoria, South Africa from the storage track to the sand and coal loading points. All dreams realised. Reading TRAINS i desperately wanted to ride the San Juan from Almosa to Durango and the Silverton mixed. Got there after the main narrow gauge line was freight only but Maurey Kleibolt's fan trips had me covering the narrow gauge three times. 1960, 1961, and 1962. Another dream realized. Again a Trains magazine had me dreaming about riding the Swiss narrow gauge, and I did that and had cab rides (actually front platforms of passenger mu's that were also the power for the mixed trains I rode.), 1960. I wanted to see British steam before it quit and I did, 1962. After all, Britain was the birthplace of the steam locomotive. I dreamt about riding the Blue Train and I did in South Africa, 1984. Never been to Alaska to ride the Alaska RR or the White Pass and Yukon. Saw the London and Port Stanley many times from the windows of the Empire State Express, but never got to ride it. On my early railffanning on the New York subway and el system, my friends and I showed up at Brooklyn Bridge to find the el across the bridge had been abandoned and only streetcar service remained. We gladly boarded a PCC which took us to Brige and Jay Streets the cut-back terminal of Brooklyn's remaining Lexington Avenue Elevated and Myrtle Avenue Elevated. We didn't even know that Brooklyn really had a Lexington Ave Elevated, althought the maps still showed it (but they still showed the lines running across the Bridge too) and we boarded the gate cars and then were really suprised by the elevated speghetti bowl junctions, very, very complex, at Broadway-Junction-Eastern-Parkway-Altantic-Avenue-East New York. Got to Saint Louis too late to ride Illinois Terminal, and lacked time in LA for the final week of the big red cars to Long Beach, in part made up by riding the new Blue Line.

[wctransfer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35

Well, Im 13 and work in locomotive cabs so i guess im really lucky!

Pretty much here too, any of you heard of the high Bridge in St. Croix? I went over that thing twice, and ive taken the controls of many SD45's and a SD40-3 also. Very fun, and challenging. And rides are still just as good as running [:D]

Alec

[CopCarSS]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

getting to see the 611 run??? yeah thats a dream come true.I'm just dreaming she'll run again in my lifetime.
stay safe
Joe

#611 was something special, and I never saw her in person. If she's ever under steam again, you can bet that I'm road-tripping for that!

[spbed]

Yes to railfan along the UPRR on the same route that they moved my companys traffic on. [:o)][:p]

Originally posted by railfan619

Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR  Austin TX Sub

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