Your most treasured sighting

[bnsfkline]

hew tresured sighting......a GP40P-2

[gabe]

When I was about 5 or 6, the Illinois Central's Springfield - St. Louis line lie dormant and I had never even saw a train on it before then. Little did my fragile mind know that they would be ripping it out in less than a year.

Anyway, on the way home from church (hope I don't offend anyone), there was a train on it. It was a GP-10 with about 15 gondolas. He stopped in my hometown, Mt. Olive ( I have no idea why, as he certainly wasn't waiting on another train), and my Dad and I got to talk to the engineer. He was a real old timer.

Looking back, it was as though I saw a ghost of all that was good about railroading. I think that is what started my love for the IC.

A poster formerly known as "Gabe."

[spbed]

Watching the EB UPRR UPS "bullet" train pass Marana, AZ going like the wind. The earth was shaking like the area was being hit with a earthquake.

[wcfan4ever]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wcfan4ever

It was a night shot of a Manitowoc, WI train leaving town with 11 engines, all in Wisconsin Central paint. A set of 5 came in the night before, then 2 more came in the next morning, and then 4 later at night~all GP's. Rare for a town that only gets one local train a day usually with two engines and anywhere from 10-50 cars. The only reason so many trains was they ran an extra into town and the crew died on time, then the next two was the extra, they ran out on time, and then finally the last one came and made it back to Neenah, WI on time. ~Since CN times, most loco's in a consist have been 4. WC usually ran 5 or 6 in on Sundays. I sure do miss those days.

Dave

Well I don't know if this beats it or not. Last Saturday night, two WC SD45's and a WC GP40-2 (3027-Flag Unit), pulled into town with well over 100 cars! Never before have 2 SD45's found thier way into Manitowoc. Plus, they were all WC's and its 2005!!!!!!!!!

[gabe]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wcfan4ever

QUOTE: Originally posted by wcfan4ever

It was a night shot of a Manitowoc, WI train leaving town with 11 engines, all in Wisconsin Central paint. A set of 5 came in the night before, then 2 more came in the next morning, and then 4 later at night~all GP's. Rare for a town that only gets one local train a day usually with two engines and anywhere from 10-50 cars. The only reason so many trains was they ran an extra into town and the crew died on time, then the next two was the extra, they ran out on time, and then finally the last one came and made it back to Neenah, WI on time. ~Since CN times, most loco's in a consist have been 4. WC usually ran 5 or 6 in on Sundays. I sure do miss those days.

Dave

Well I don't know if this beats it or not. Last Saturday night, two WC SD45's and a WC GP40-2 (3027-Flag Unit), pulled into town with well over 100 cars! Never before have 2 SD45's found thier way into Manitowoc. Plus, they were all WC's and its 2005!!!!!!!!!

Sadly, I feel as though you understand what I meant in the above post when I said "It was like seeing a ghost." I miss the WC, and the days of seeing trains like that are numbered.

A poster formerly known as "Gabe"

[lonewoof]

(Tie)
(1) First time watching/HEARING N&W 611 stomp by, upgrade, on the way out of town;
(2) First time seeing/hearing an actual 1:1 operating Shay on the Graham County RR.

[jokestre]

In 1997 when UP844 and E9units traversed the Joint Line down to Pueblo ,into the Royal gorge,across Tenn Pass,and Glenwood Canyon seeing and hearing that has forever been burned into my ole noggin[:D]

[Anonymous]

Seeing three Rio Grande GP30s on a train around 1992 or 1993, in Salt Lake City. I had my camera with me and got a picture, which unfortunately didn't come out very good. Then in 1989, I got a picture of some kind of GE diesel on the Philippine National Railway that was built in either the 1950's or 1960's. Picture that I wish I had: a Santa Fe SD75M in the red and silver warbonnet, leading three blue and yellow Santa Fe SD45-2s on a train sitting in UP's North Salt Lake Yard.

[athelney]

My Canadian one -- photographing CPR #2860 & CN #6060 doubleheading an excursion on Anderson River bridge - south of Boston Bar BC - just before sundown in Nov 1988 . just enough light to highlight the steam & the loco profiles. Now as for the UK - well we could start with 2 Stanier class 5- 4-6-0's climbing Shap in the early morning with an overnight extra passenger from London--- (you had to have been there!! )

[espeefoamer]

When I was 12 in the early 60s,I had a doctors appointment in Pasadena.We arrived early ,so my mom stopped at the Santa Fe station to watch trains.When we got there ,we saw a steam engine with a string of heavyweight passenger cars.We found out that a movie was being filmed .We watched as the train ran into the station several times for the cameras.The engine was ATSF 2-6-2,#1010.The movie was The Carpetbaggers,and I saw Bob Cummings on the platform.The train was actually being pulled by a high nose GP on the other end of the train.[:)][:D][8D][:p]!

[Glen Ellyn]

1. Union PAcific #3300 with an S1 Green Mountain railroad company.

2. #3300 attatched to an unpatched C&NW

[Anonymous]

Metra E8 pulling the California Zephyr on CNW during the floods of 1993. I had no idea that the CNW was the only line open to the west. Also, saw a E8/9 in Pennsylvania paint roll southbound on Conrail’s Marion Branch during the summer of 1997 at New Paris, Indiana. It was sandwiched between two Conrail EMD’s. Still have no idea on that move.