No offense taken, my friend. Thanks to everyone who wrote in response to the article. Cheri George
Semper Vaporo wrote: 1stFalcon wrote:After having just read the last issue of Trains Magazine I think my wish would be to meet Cheri George, especialy is she is still single! With apologies to Mz. George, in the event the following comment is in any way offensive to her...WHY? OH! WHY DID I CHOOSE COMPUTERS INSTEAD OF TRAINS?!
1stFalcon wrote:After having just read the last issue of Trains Magazine I think my wish would be to meet Cheri George, especialy is she is still single!
With apologies to Mz. George, in the event the following comment is in any way offensive to her...
WHY? OH! WHY DID I CHOOSE COMPUTERS INSTEAD OF TRAINS?!
My wish list, of course apart from the opportunity to meet the delightful Ms Kube again, and impossible things like the ability to banish clouds when I am out photographing or to levitate photo line offenders out of view, would be a three ring binder with letters from the Presidents of every railroad in the country. And each letter would say "To Whom it May Concern, Mr. David Nelson has full authority to be on the property of this railroad without hinderance for purposes of railfanning and photography."
It would also be nice to be able to take train pictures as nice as my friend Keith Schmidt does. But first I gotta go digital. Folks are looking at me funny when I stop to load film ...
Dave Nelson
edblysard wrote: Oh, I don't know...Maybe a small, simple monument on the Mall in Washington DC to all the men and women who gave their lives while on duty...Something simple, like a boiler plate or a driver, with their names and road engraved on it.I think you would be surprised at how many names it would have on it.
Oh, I don't know...
Maybe a small, simple monument on the Mall in Washington DC to all the men and women who gave their lives while on duty...
Something simple, like a boiler plate or a driver, with their names and road engraved on it.
I think you would be surprised at how many names it would have on it.
Ed -
Saw this post and was thinking that there does exist a large brass plaque in Union Station in Washington with the names of Amtrak employees killed in the line of duty, so indeed, why not a bigger monument for all railroaders killed in the line of duty.
It would have to be pretty large to accomodate all the names.
LC
This was, after all, a wish list...I doubt it will ever happen.
It seems that we tend to over look the every day heroes among us...not to distract from others, but....
Oh well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
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Murphy Siding wrote: nanaimo73 wrote: 1,435 more posts on the forum from 1435mm.Mark Hemphill filling in as editor of Trains one month a year while Jim and Kathi are on holidays. I was going to say, that a set of SPV Atlases would be high on my list as well, but I think you're onto something here. When MWH left Trains Magazine, he wrote that he'd be writing articles from time to time for the magazine. I'm sure the fine folks at Trains Magazine have his phone number-how 'bout it?
nanaimo73 wrote: 1,435 more posts on the forum from 1435mm.Mark Hemphill filling in as editor of Trains one month a year while Jim and Kathi are on holidays.
1,435 more posts on the forum from 1435mm.
Mark Hemphill filling in as editor of Trains one month a year while Jim and Kathi are on holidays.
I'd have to Ditto The above wishes..
Murph can have the extra post thing...
Kathi, What I'd really,REALLY like to have is a COMPLETE set of TRAINS--
From Issue One to current!
That way I could possibly,Possibly be able to out reference Dale [Nainaimo 73]!!
P.S. THANKS FOR ASKING!!!
.....Those are big shoes to wish for to out reference Dale....Ha.
Quentin
OH! OH! MY TURN! since we dont have to be realistic, here goes:
1. some real CNW equipment. by that, i mean freight cars, an SD60, SD40-2, SD45, amd a dash 8. and heck, why not a 400 train while i'm at it. 2 E7s and an E9B. and throw in some 400 passenger cars i can chill in and give rides in.
2. some trackage i can run these trains on and a way for me to control the locomotives via remote...or have a robot drive it while i relax in my awesome train. what. reality doesnt play into this after all!
3. the end of all ex-CNW motive power coming to Altoona. and be replaced with SD60s, tunnel motors, pure UP SD40-2s, SD70Ms, and the new stuff. especially 1995. er anything that isnt ex-CNW or an SD60M.
4. a new room added to my house with a big awesome HO layout added to it.
5. a big HO fleet of my choosing. i need me some tower 55 heritage units, a UPP train, lots of steam, and a MASSIVE CNW freight fleet
6. a new camera and a tripod. a camera with more or just as many settings as my current powershot A40 and better megapixels.
7. a jetpack and a neat-looking suit of armor just to look cool and fly.
8. MONEY!
9. the ability to always get at pizza and crazy bread from little caesars. no matter where i am. all i have to do is snap my fingers and it appears in front of me
10. the ability to not have this aforementioned food make me fat or give me any health problems at all so i can just eat it as much as i want.....in a lawnchair....watching my CNW trains.....ohhh man what a day!
11. a good light system so railfans can photograph my CNWs even at night. and a good security system so they cant loot or steal my units.
12. FREE RIDES ON MY 400! what i already wished for money. i dont need to charge people for it.
and then i think i'll be happy forever
but in a reality sense, we need to find a way to hypnotize people so that they can go to such a happy place in their minds. away from reality's harshness
my imagination is pretty wild!
Your friendly neighborhood CNW fan.
Limitedclear wrote: edblysard wrote: Oh, I don't know...Maybe a small, simple monument on the Mall in Washington DC to all the men and women who gave their lives while on duty...Something simple, like a boiler plate or a driver, with their names and road engraved on it.I think you would be surprised at how many names it would have on it.Ed -Saw this post and was thinking that there does exist a large brass plaque in Union Station in Washington with the names of Amtrak employees killed in the line of duty, so indeed, why not a bigger monument for all railroaders killed in the line of duty. It would have to be pretty large to accomodate all the names. LC
Just curious, not looking to start a flamewar so please don't take this wrong. But why honor railroad employees who die in industrial accidents over any other dangerous indistry with a high casualty rate? like skyscraper ironworkers, bridgebuilders, miners -- its not like they were doing heroic work like policemen, fireman and members of the armed forces, where they sacrificed their lives to save others -- with certain exceptions.
Chico
1, a private car to tack onto the rear of frieghts (for free ).
2, an AWESOME new (free ) camera (mine was cheap 4 years ago....).
3, a nice new (& free ) trackside house in Alatoona Pass.
4, a large enough (& free ) building to model Atlanta to Knoxville, and Atlanta to Chattanooga HO Layout.
5, about 5,000 other things (that are free ).
....A priviate car tacked on the rear of a freight train might not be a very good idea....Slack action....Not a good thing to be hammered with.
Modelcar wrote: .....Those are big shoes to wish for to out reference Dale....Ha.
I am reminded of the story about two little boys sittin' and wishing on a hot summer afternoon--one asked the other what he most wished for--the response was, "I wish for a big watermelon!" His friends response was "what do you really wish for?"
The second boy's response was..." I wish for a really,really, BIG watermelon!!"
So, Quentin, in an effort not to waste my wish.......[See Above!]
Modelcar wrote: ....A priviate car tacked on the rear of a freight train might not be a very good idea....Slack action....Not a good thing to be hammered with.
So true, maybe the front, lol? I'd settle for an Amtrak. Hey, why not a cabride anywhere, anytime I wanted?
Wisconsin Railfan wrote:Life time supply of Culver’s! anythime I am out railfanin' I could go to Culver’s and get anything I want..... Oh! I miss Wisconsin and Culver’s butter burgers and Custard.. Just Drummy!
Just wait and be patient. We recently had several Culver's open here in the St. Louis area, so I imagine they are going national. And the food is as good as I remember from Wisconsin Dells.
I knew there was something I forgot to add to this the last time I posted to this thread... is it to much to ask for a nice size building say 40 x 60 or 60 x 80 feet to build the model railroad of a lifetime.... and trust me I didn't ask for money so it would take me a lifetime oh well just thought I would throw that out there...
I wish for my own set of private passenger cars (enough to make a 12-car trainset).
I wish to be able to travel on every stretch of railroad track in the US and Canada.
I wish Conrail was still here.
Actually, they do honor them...drive through any Kentucky, Virginia or Pennsylvania coal town, and you will find monuments, plaques, buildings and street named after, or in honor of miners.
Every high rise has, somewhere in the building, a plaque with the names of the guys killed helping build the thing.
Go talk to the Boston Irish, and I bet almost any one you do speak to has kin who worked the high iron, and they could name most of the guys who died in the last ten years, all from memory.
There are monuments to them too....
Come on down to Pasadena, Deer Park or Jacinto City, and I can show you statues and monuments to the refinery workers...Both Deer Park and Jacinto City have pavilions with plaques and a interactive display, describing the refineries accidents, and Texas City has its City Hall and Municipal building named after workers.
Just about any city and town of any size has a memorial to its fallen Fire Fighters, most have something for their Police Departments also, Houston just unveiled a life sized Bronze of the Fire Fighters on Main Plaza...and I assume you realize what the park at Ground Zero is going to contain...
Yes, most train accidents fall into the realm of an "industrial accident"...but look at it this way.
Find me any facet of your life that has not, in some small way, been impacted by railroads...most of your consumer goods arrived, or at least traveled part way to their final destination, via train.
Virtually any town or city west of the Mississippi exists only because the railroads brought the people and material to build it.
Railroads and ships are the earliest forms of large industry in America, and there are monuments to the seamen, ships preserved as museums and exhibits in the Smithsonian to ocean going ships and their crews...
Should the guys and gals who die who on duty in these "industrial accidents" as you termed them be any less honored?
I am not saying the railroaders who died should be honored above any other...most others have already been honored, and rightly so.
What I was suggesting was maybe it's about time we recognize the sacrifice these people made...not as heroes in the traditional sense, but as the everyday heroes they are...they guys and gals who get the train over the tracks and to your city with the things you want and need, things most of us take for granted.
Steam Is King wrote: Limitedclear wrote: edblysard wrote: Oh, I don't know...Maybe a small, simple monument on the Mall in Washington DC to all the men and women who gave their lives while on duty...Something simple, like a boiler plate or a driver, with their names and road engraved on it.I think you would be surprised at how many names it would have on it.Ed -Saw this post and was thinking that there does exist a large brass plaque in Union Station in Washington with the names of Amtrak employees killed in the line of duty, so indeed, why not a bigger monument for all railroaders killed in the line of duty. It would have to be pretty large to accomodate all the names. LC Just curious, not looking to start a flamewar so please don't take this wrong. But why honor railroad employees who die in industrial accidents over any other dangerous indistry with a high casualty rate? like skyscraper ironworkers, bridgebuilders, miners -- its not like they were doing heroic work like policemen, fireman and members of the armed forces, where they sacrificed their lives to save others -- with certain exceptions.Chico
I wish CN would doheritage engines, bring the WC SD45s back, and keep 5 engines from each of the lines it took over in their original paint schemes. I can just picture what a lighting striped green and orange EJ&E painted SD70M-2 would look like (CN is getting them next year. Or you could rename the entire system EJ&E or WC.
A cab ride in a EJ&E SD38-2 from Kirk Yard to Joliet would be pretty high up there also, as would a couple day trip to Duluth to see the remaining DM&IR engines, and a trip to the twin cities. I've been to St. Louis many times, but never the twin cities. Those ALCOs and MLWs on the MNNR make it pretty tempting. Chicago hasn't had those since IAIS and BRC dumped theirs, plus 261 is based there,
EJE818 wrote: I wish CN would doheritage engines, bring the WC SD45s back, and keep 5 engines from each of the lines it took over in their original paint schemes. I can just picture what a lighting striped green and orange EJ&E painted SD70M-2 would look like (CN is getting them next year. Or you could rename the entire system EJ&E or WC. A cab ride in a EJ&E SD38-2 from Kirk Yard to Joliet would be pretty high up there also, as would a couple day trip to Duluth to see the remaining DM&IR engines, and a trip to the twin cities. I've been to St. Louis many times, but never the twin cities. Those ALCOs and MLWs on the MNNR make it pretty tempting. Chicago hasn't had those since IAIS and BRC dumped theirs, plus 261 is based there,
Don't hold your breath. UPs hertiage fleet was done to preserve UP trademarks, not because UP cares a hoot about its heritage lines...
Wish list, huh? Hmm... How about special permission to traverse your favorite railroad's r/w in non industrial areas when demonstrated that you can do so safely? Like a permit similar to what hunter's carry.
You'd have to pay for and attend a 40 hour railroad flagger/safety course, be registered and have a liability waiver signed and on record, wear appropriate clothing and ppe and be required to carry a radio scanner with you so you'd know where the trains are at all times and stand down when a train approaches.
Think of all the really great photos you'd be able to get in those places where only railroders and their guests are permitted. I know that there are those who do this and "trespass" where they shouldn't (you know who you are ). They travel the r/w's and hide out in the brush or woods when they see or hear traffic coming their way only to reemmerge and continue treking along until they reach their destination.
I'd love to be able to legally walk my favorite railroad's r/w but I know that will never happen. Not unless I become an employee which then it probably wouldn't be my favorite for long.
This is, after all, a wish list and that's what I'd probably wish for.
Ted M.
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eolafan wrote:Note to Kathi: Did you ever get any ideas from this thread tha may just end up as something we will see in TRAINS?
Kathi Kube wrote: eolafan wrote:Note to Kathi: Did you ever get any ideas from this thread tha may just end up as something we will see in TRAINS?Hi, Jim!Yup, I referenced a bunch of these wishes in the December issue's Fantrip column. More importantly, I've given readers some leads on how to obtain some of them. I'm afraid none are free, though. ;-)A bunch of you might also be interested in seeing which member of the MR staff was willing to be a model for the photo. It turned out pretty nice and he was a great guy to work with. Take care!Kathi
Thanks Kathi, I am now (more than ever) looking forward to seeing my December TRAINS issue.
edblysard wrote:Ok, who wished for a photo of Bergie in spandex?
ED;
That is positively--Warped, Twisted and Plumb Scarey!!
[Wasn't that a railroad in Colorado?]
OH, Well, it is getting towards Halloween! Careful, where you Trick or Treat!
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