How Many Locomotives Have You Been On?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by miniwyo

UP DDA40X dont remember the number But its the only one that still runs today.
I wasn't on it but i leaned in the cab of the UP 3985 and i also looked in the boiler of the UP 844 becasue they were overhauling it at the time.

UP DDA40X 6936 [:)]

[Anonymous]

An Catskill mountain RS1 no. 401an ex rutland 401
Conrail B23-7 2801, 2802 and 2816. the 2802 (3182) i have riden to Haverstaw back to KIngston.
Norfolk Southern C40-9W (DC40-9W)
CSX SD50
SP SD40T-2
conrail GP40-2 no 3390
conrail C40-8W which i have riden from Flatbush ave to smith (the same with an SD50)
and ex conrail GP38 1990 and 3152 i've opperated (no joke under the watchful eye of the conductor)

[miniwyo]

UP DDA40X dont remember the number But its the only one that still runs today.
I wasn't on it but i leaned in the cab of the UP 3985 and i also looked in the boiler of the UP 844 becasue they were overhauling it at the time.

[shrek623]

More and more every day. As of this posting I am the bottom photo on the Rochelle web cam (BNSF 4525 passing through the diamond at 9/10 ,1:11 P.M. heading toward Cicero, IL). A couple of weeks ago I went through Rochelle on BNSF 7007 and 7008(old BN paint SD40-2's back to back, how they ended up together who knows).

[Anonymous]

IT HAS BEEN MANY YEARS BUT HERE THEY ARE
LEHIGH VALLEY C-420 AT QUAKER INTERLOCKING IN 1974
CENTRAL VERMONT GP-9 IN MONTREAL AROUND 1960 ON THE WASHINGTON PASSENGER TRAIN
PC ELECTRIC ON EMPIRE SERVICE FROM HARMON INTO GRAND CENTRAL STATION WHAT GREAT RIDE
IN THE MID 50's EMD GPs ALCO RS-2 or 3 AND I THINK BLW UNITS ON SOME KIND. MY DAD GOT TO BE FRIENDS WITH THE HEADEND CREW ON THE AUBURN ROAD PASSEGER TRAIN . WE RODE IN THE CAB ON NUMEROUS TIMES OVER A 2 OR 3 YEAR PERIOD FROM VICTOR, TO CANANDIGUA , NY EVEN HAVE A PICTURE OF ME AT ABOUT 6 YEARS OLD PULLING ON THE AIR HORN FOR A GRADE X-ING BOY DID THAT CORD PULL HARD

[joegreen]

CN 2587 DASH9-44CW.............Stratford,IL (8/8/98)
BN 7044 SD40-2.............Stratford,IL
UP SD90/43MAC..............Nelson,IL

[Anonymous]

a.....live steam Pacific model
a 1:1 Coaling tank engine
a 1:1 C&O allegheny (I think it was an Allegheny)
a 1:1 Consolidation (Just this monday I might add)
a 1:1 RDC (Monday as well, if it counts)
and I think Ive been in a Camel, NJC boxcab, and a few other steamers.
hmmmm. cant think of any others.

[redflasher1]

1

a BN (green) when I was a cop attending a 3 day class on investigating car/train collisions. It was an absolute hoot. We(officers) were given the loco ride so we could see what the train crew sees as they are flying along.

I was impressed by how clean the cab was on this loco. Absolutely spotless.

Thanks BN

[Anonymous]

I have been on an E8 this week- Just yesturday actually

The Rare CP rail E8 locomotive-

I pulled it off my HO tracks- and tried to stand on it, successfully might I add...

So..

Add 1 E8 to my chart, that I have been on-

[mustanggt]

I've been in the cab of the amtrak downeasters F40PH cabbage, does that count? I got to sit in the drivers seat too!

[Anonymous]

I have been on 6 locomotives.
2-GG1
!- F7
2-GP9
1- E8

[wcfan4ever]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wcfan4ever

This week, I'm gonna try to get on an IC unit!

Well what I thought was an IC unit in Manitowoc this week turned out to be a WC unit with a set of IC style air horns. It is WC 3004! Been a long time since this unit has been around Wisconsin. Unit was down in Memphis for the longest time.

Anyways, add WC 3004 to the list of locomotives I have been on....thank you friendly crew!

[twhite]

Just one, but it's stuck with me for years. I was 8 years old, my great-uncle Tom was a brakeman on the SP, worked out of Truckee CA to Norden, over Donner Pass. He helped me into the cab of an AC-6 Cab-Forward 4-8-8-2 running as helper over the summit, and there I was. Darn near wet my pants I was so excited. All I remember is that it was NOISIER than all get-out, and my front view was the end of a boxcar, and three miles west of Stanford Curve, everything was obliterated by snowsheds--though I got a good view of Donner Lake WAY DOWN THERE a couple of times. The AC-6 swayed, chortled, pumped, sounded like the end of the world and it smelled WONDERFUL! I remember the fireman giving me a lecture (shouting, actually) about how long it took to bore Donner Summit tunnel. We cut off at Norden, turned on the turntable in the sheds and rode light back to Truckee. I don't know how fast we went, but it seemed like every curve, we were going to leave the rails and whack through the snowsheds. After that, every time I saw a flat-faced AC 4,5,6, I'd get a lump in my throat. Loved those cab-forwards, they had a sound like no other locomotive I've ever heard. If steam locomotives are music, then these guys are a combination of Mahler and Richard Strauss.

[AntonioFP45]

As I railfan I've been very fortunate.

C&O 614 (4-8-4 steamer)
Amtrak SDP40F
Amtrak F40PH
Amtrak E8A
Florida MIdland CF7
SCL U18B
SCL GP7
SCL SW9
SCL U36B
Family Lines GP38-2
SCL GP40

[wcfan4ever]

This week, I'm gonna try to get on an IC unit!

[Anonymous]

I've only been on 2 different locomotives because in Meridian, MS there are few other kinds of locos that come by on the KCS rail line. The KCS GP-40, SD40-2, SD60s. I've been on the UP-SD40. I was promised a Cab ride with my uncle months ago, but he hasn't had time, and the fact that I'm in college now makes it even harder. But I made my visits to the trains while they were parked on the side of the road. There used to be a RR by my home and I'd go over there everyday after school and play around. I would spasm-out when I heard the air blow out of the compressors, or the smooth sound of the Engines. I'm very fond of the KCS GP40s! [:D]

[passengerfan]

None recently but have was on the footplate's of CN 6167, CN 6218 both 4-8-4 Northerns under steam and CN 6060 a 4-8-2 under steam and CPR 2860 a 4-6-4 Royal Hudson all while operating. Also have been in the cab of a CB&Q E7A at 100 mph at the head of an Empire Builder between La Crosse and Prairie Du Chien. Rode a Milwaukee Road Bi-Polar between Seattle Union Station and Renton, Washington. I have also ridden a CN Turbo in the Club car directly behind the engineer watching everything don''t know if that counts or not. Ridden in the cabs of numerous CN GMD FP9A and MLW FPA-4 passenger units in eastern Canada. Ridden every class of CN Newfoundland Railway narrow gauge diesels. Have had cab rides in GN GP-9s, GP-20s, GP-30s, E-7, F3A, F7A and SDP-45s. Never had a cab ride on the NP, or UP as they were not as accessible as the GN was in the Seattle area where I grew up. GN passenger department was most receptive to passenger fans at one time and every cab ride I had on the GN was with a pass. The CN cab rides were with permission as well. The Milwaukee Bi-Polar ride was without railroad permission just an engineer with grandsons as well. The CB&Q trip was with permission. What was my favorite cab ride on a diesel the big noisy SDP-45 going through Cascade tunnel that I rode from Seattle to Wenatchee before reboarding the Empire Builder itself. for the remainder of my trip to St. Paul.

[CP5415]

1
2816, Toronto Yard, June of this year

Gordon

[Anonymous]

Sadly, nothing moving, only a couple of museum pieces, but if any engineers are moving through the Boulder area I would love a ride [:)]

[Soo2610]

the zephyr, a russian steamer and a gp38 at the Irm in illinois and not too long ago a dash 9 with two remotes in the rear and a sd40-2 at a location and place that shall remain nameless.

[agentatascadero]

This must be the ultimate envy thread! Growing up in the steam era, I've seen/ridden behind most wheel arrangements, but to ride in the cab of an operating locomotive is quite another story. It would be,I guess, the King City local on the SP coast line, the crew invited me aboard several times, while switching the Atascadero leads, in,I think a 3200 series 2-8-2. Several times I visited the cab of 4300-4400's while nos 71-72 made their Atascadero stop. Once, in the diesel era I rode a helper over Cuesta Grade SLO-Santa Mragarita. That covers steam and diesel. RE:electric; in 1968, while in the Army, I visited Penn Station in uniform. A GG1 crew invited me into the cab for a look. I've never been in such a cramped cab, must be like the engineer cab in a camel-back. This was my lucky day, and all thanks to the uniform, because they invited me for a ride out to Sunnyside yards. Once there, I had the run of the place, and was able to tour through all the great Florida and Chicago/St Louis streamliners, what a treat. When I was done, I simply found the next train for Penn Station, and got another cab ride. As I recall, it was several miles to Sunnyside, and the train obtained pretty good speed, but those G's still sounded like a big streetcar than a powerful mainline locomotive. This time, I received an invite to ride to DC(and return), but didn't have the time. In retrospect, I didn't have the correct priority. The King City local guys also offered to take me up or down the line, and I was similarly "judgement challenged" and failed to accept their offer. I'm sure that now I wouldn't have minded the spanking or other grief that would have caused.

[wcfan4ever]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

Does my model RR count?

[:d]

If you can fit on your model railroad, it sure can count. By the way, what scale is it?? 1/2?

[rich747us]

Only 1, and that was the steam locomotive on the Attica & Arcade RR in Western New York. Dont ask me type it was or what the road number is 'cause I was about 4 or 5 when I rode on it.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Old Timer

Because I'm the Old Timer, I've been on the following steam wheel arrangements:
0-4-0, 0-4-0T, 0-6-0, 0-8-0, 0-8-0T, 2-6-0, 2-8-0, 2-10-0, 2-8-2, 2-8-4, 2-10-4, 4-6-0, 4-8-0, 4-6-2, 4-8-2, 4-8-4, 2-6-6-2, 2-6-6-4, 2-6-6-6, 2-8-8-2.
Ran some of them, fired some of them, enjoyed every d**n one of them.
Electrics: VGN EL3s, Amtrak GG1s, both over the road.
Ran a few diesels, too, but nothing very new. When I was very young I was allowed to crank up a set of Alco DL109s . . . Rode D&H PA 19 Montreal to Albany. Rode D&H Sharks from Binghamton to Sayre.
Loads of hoots.

You make LC look like he's still in Huggies

[:D]

[Anonymous]

Does my model RR count?

[:d]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan

Whos been in an AC6000CW? How do they run?

In the early days of the AC6000's they had turbo problems. GE redesigned the turbos and they started having a little more success. As far as operating, I prefered them over MAC-90's. They have the ability to load quicker and the air brakes seemed better to me.

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

In order of happening,

WSOR 3802, GP38
WSOR 2054, SD20
WSOR 3802 again, GP38
WSOR 3807 GP38

Noah

Noah,

You are lucky.
CW & I got promised a cab ride in a P&L switcher several years ago,
We just haven't been able to collect[:D]

Just curcious,how goes the A.R.K.[:)]

[Noah Hofrichter]

In order of happening,

WSOR 3802, GP38
WSOR 2054, SD20
WSOR 3802 again, GP38
WSOR 3807 GP38

Noah

[Anonymous]

cnw gp9............cnw gp50......cnw sd40.... cnw ge4400... cnw gp35.....cnwsd45
ic gp9.....ic sd70.....ic sw900.... norfolk western gp30.....bn sd9..... atsf gp50b
atsf u30 up sd90 others also.