How Many Locomotives Have You Been On?

[rf16a]

I have been lucky enough to get a cab ride on a few locos.
Two F-7s
F-3
GP-9
GP-10
GE 44 Tonner
S-12
S-8
As-616.

[Anonymous]

Let's see here I've been on a Rock Island RS-2 and a Santa Fe FP-45.

[Anonymous]

I've been on plenty at railroad museums, but as far as on real railroads, I've only been on two. The first was a CP diesel. I do not know what type it was as I was only 5 years old at the time. It had to have been a GP or SD something, though. I also got a chance to go in the cab of CP SD40-2F 9002 about 6 years ago.

[Modelcar]

...Rode none, but have been on one in Kingman, Az....one in Muncie, In....and one in Ligonier, Pa....All steamers. Tried to get through the Freedom Train Diesel [engine], tour back about 1947 in Johnstown, Pa., but gave up....line was too long.

[wcfan4ever]

QUOTE: Originally posted by locomutt

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.

That Sir,Is VERY impressive;all I can say is that you are one lucky guy![:)][bow]

I only wish I was only enough to be able to see those plus wish I was lucky enough to see half on those.

[locomutt]

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.

That Sir,Is VERY impressive;all I can say is that you are one lucky guy![:)][bow]

And I thought I was lucky when the Trainmaster at C&Os Shelby yards asked
if I wanted a cab ride through the yards a bunch of years ago.(approx 74-75)[:)]

[Anonymous]

CPRail GP 38-2's. 5 or 6 of them, don't have all the numbers, but I know 3004, 3007, and 3039 for sure. This was back in the late 80's when they were running the lumber out of the O.K. Falls Weyerhauser spur at the end of the Princeton Subdivision. Cab rides they were, too, along Skaha Lake. I remember the engineer was Nick Marra and the brakeman was nicknamed Fat Boy. Those guys were sure tolerant of a keen young railnut.
Sorry for all the details here, but those were fun times for a teenager. I have also had the opportunity to move a CN loco, honestly don't know what, about 50 feet down a yard track, with an accommodating engineer giving instructions. I put the engine brakes on too quick and made the cars all come crashing down the slack. Great Fun!

[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 really are an old head...

LC

[Randy Stahl]

Can't hold a candle to that !!!!
Randy

[Anonymous]

Oh, and how could I forget the Heisler and Shays?

[Anonymous]

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.

[athelney]

Several - the highlight was a cab ride in the 2nd unit (SD40-2) on a CPR westbound coal train over the Rogers Pass in BC - From Golden to Revelstoke through the Mt Mcdonald tunnel , also up the grade from Rogers to Glacier & back on a 6 loco pusher set also SD40-2's through the Connaught tunnel on the CPR mainline .

[bnsfkline]

Had a cab ride in a SD40-2, GP40-3, and a Alco C424

[tpatrick]

My first cab visit was in an Alco PA, in Erie, Pa., 1948. I think it was the Freedom Train, but it could have been just an open house at the GE plant. Ten years later I was in the cab of NKP 2-8-4 777 in Buffalo. In 1959, in Sarnia, Ont., I spent about a half hour riding on a CNR 0-8-0 working the yard. Living near Jamestown, NY in the 1950's I often visited Erie E-8s and GP-7s. Also rode around the yard in the EMD switcher there (SW-?) A fantrip got me into the cab of Southern 4501 in Winchester, VA , 1975. And in 1985, while visiting the yard in Norfolk, I came across N&W 611, in steam, and got a short ride down the track. And now, almost 20 years later, it's time to look into the new generation of diesels.

[tree68]

Working - 4 - 1. C&O Geep. Young and only got a tour.
2. Two different Amtrak engines at the train show in Syracuse
3. CNY NHRS E-8 (not running at the time), also at Syracuse
None "over the road", though.

Static - quite a few.

[Anonymous]

None [:(]

[Junctionfan]

Whos been in an AC6000CW? How do they run?

[Anonymous]

!st. A BN SD40-2 @ South Omaha on an East Bound Coal load for C.B. Iowa.
2nd. A FEVR NW2 @ Fremont,Neb.
3rd. A BNSF Cream & Green SD70MAC on an Empty Coal train @ Council Bluffs ,Iowa.
4th. A BN SD40-2 on an east bound freight @ Crawford,Neb.
END OF LIST.

[locomutt]

Many,many moons ago;A C&O 2-6-6-6,several GP-7s,GP-9s,a Sperry Rail car.
And yes, before anyone asks about the 2-6-6-6,I am about that old.

[espeefoamer]

UP
GP9# 323(first cab ride)[:)].
GP9# 305
U 28C
SP
Switcher #1174
SW1500 #2459
SW1500#2499
U28C
SD 45#9011
FP7#6449
ATSF
several S2s & S4s
SeveralCF7 s
severalGP35s
SD 40#5000
F7#307
Spirit of Washington dinner train
F7
Amtrak
SDP40F#500
SDP40F#507
F40PH
P32-8W#507
BC Rail
RDC
These were all cab rides[8D].

[jimitimi]

Both Soo Line (now WC) and C&NW were in town while I was growing up.

I used to go up to the C&NW yard and ride the local when it was switching. I rode GP20 #4402, 4404, 4408 and many other Geeps. I also once rode in a SOO F-unit when I was about 10, but I don't remember the number. Then they tore up the CNW in 1982 and that was the end of that.

[MP57313]

One cab ride...B&M from West Cambridge to North Station (Boston) over 30 years ago.
Two or three dozen at museums and railfairs.

[JoeKoh]

a gp 38-2, a dash 9, me and matt a dash 8 and a c40-8.cant give location but it was fun.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

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[tup] How about a lift, Buddy?

Wayne

[Anonymous]

P&W U23B - Naugatuck Railroad
B&M GP9 - Naugatuck Railroad
NH RS-3 - Naugatuck Railroad
E8A - Danbury Railway Museum
CDOT GP40-2H - Palinville, CT
Conrail B23-7 - Old Saybrook, CT

[Anonymous]

Cedar Rapids & Iowa City SW1400 on a ballast train on the former MILW
Ottumwa line at Walford, Iowa.

St. Croix Valley GP7 at Hinckley, MN on the former NP Duluth-Twin Cities
line.

[Mookie]

2 -

and don't ask me what they were.

One just sitting and one that just thrilled the daylights out of me!

Mook

[Anonymous]

Too many to count. After working on and hostling them for two years I quit counting

[Anonymous]

About 20, in the last week or so...

LC

[FThunder11]

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