Toy trains for work?

[Boyd]

I have read a few stories of how trains were used at a business for work. I've seen pictures of food delivered at a restaurant and move some radioactive materials in a nuke plant. Thankfully not the same engine/train doing both tasks.

[Anonymous]

Toy trains? I use toy trains to gain my students interest in music through a train themed lesson. This was the first year I brought them up and it wasn't for the lesson but... it was still for the kids. OKay, it was really for me. ;)

[laz 57]

Hope you played TRAIN by BLACKFOOT, and LOCOMOTIVE BREATH by Jethro Tull?

TWo of my favorites.

laz57

[Anonymous]

don't forget casey jones

[laz 57]

JOHN, how did you make out with the WEAVER L1b?

laz57

[kpolak]

Hope you played TRAIN by BLACKFOOT, and LOCOMOTIVE BREATH by Jethro Tull?

TWo of my favorites.

laz57

What about Long Train Running by the Doobie brothers, Slow Train Comming by Bob Dylan, and Mystery Train mostly by Jerry Garcia...Once by the Grateful Dead

[laz 57]

And TUESDAY GONE by SKYNYRD.

laz57

[Jumijo]

 

Mystery Train by ELVIS PRESLEY

[PhilaKnight]

Less we not forget Johnny Cash and Fulsome Prison. Everybody nows it's a song about the train and not the prison.

[kpolak]

Mystery Train by ELVIS PRESLEY

Ok, ya got me .... 1955 it was done by Elvis, origionally written by Junior Parker and Sam Phillips.. Performed by Junior Parker of Junior and the Blue Flames, in 1953.

LAZ isn't old enough to know who Elvis is...I was trying to be contempory for his sake.

Kurt

[kpolak]

Less we not forget Johnny Cash and Fulsome Prison. Everybody nows it's a song about the train and not the prison.

Is this what you mean????

[Boyd]

I wasn't talking about SONGS, I was talking about the physical/mechanical use of a toy train for a real work purpose! Pay attention!

[Big Walnut Railroader]

 

Another item to be added to the "Should be made in O gauge" list.

[cnw1995]

Yes indeed.

This is a better thread, Boyd

I'm always partial to Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Atchison and Topeka & the Santa Fe 

[cnw1995]

How can I forget 'King of the Road?'

[kpolak]

Sorry Boyd,  looks like we railroaded you....

I apologize.  Other than the food service at restaurants, and trains running around places of business, I don't know of any other businesses that put toy trains to work.

Kurt

[Prairietype]

Arlo Guthrie-City of New Orleans

[kpolak]

Train in Vain by The Clash.

[Anonymous]

Less we not forget Johnny Cash and Fulsome Prison. Everybody nows it's a song about the train and not the prison.

Johnny Cash had a lot of train songs. An entire album called Story Songs of the Trains and Rivers. I think it came out in 1969.

[rtraincollector]

BOXTOPS Choo choo train

[PostwarMan07]

My uncle was thinking of opening a bar with a friend about a year ago.  He wanted to have a train bring people their drinks.  I think you could make it look really nice by building the tracks into the bar like you would build a trolley line into a road (with the ties hidden).  Haven't seen any other examples of trains at work.  Although an italian restaurant around where I live has a large postwar lionel display in a showcase!

"I bet there's rich folks eating in a fancy dining car.  They're probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars"

[Anonymous]

When i was about 9, my grandfather was telling me about the soldiers coming back from the Vietnamese war, and families finally re-uniting. One of my favorite songs of all time is "The Boys are Back in Town" by Thin Lizzy . I always thought a Thin Lizzy train would be cool, seeing as I lost an uncle in that war. But thats just my opnion.

[RRCharlie]

Let's not forget Pacific 2-3-1 by Arthur Honneger or the Train to Kaipura (sp).

Mel Hazen; Jax, FL

[Anonymous]

Anybody remember the Eddie Murphy movie 'Coming to America'? When Eddie went to his boss' house (Mr. McDowell), he had an LGB steam engine and flat cars delivering drinks on his in-home bar. Eddie dident look too impressed. As for real work......um.....err.....Well, i guess you could set up tracks all the way down the street and use a heavy train to walk small dogs . OR, you could drive around a construction site delivering hoppers full of nails to carpenters. Strap some GP-9's to your feet and train-skate your way around the house. IDK, i dont think they are realy valuable as employees. Maby a REALY REALY small coal mine could use a REALY REALY small coal train. LOL.  but honestly, besides circling around the roof of a restaurant, or delivering drinks in a bar, theyre just for fun.