Happy National Train Day everyone! ;D
What is everyone doing for the occasion?
Garden RR open house tours, then possibly taking a ride up to Strasburg!
I'm gonna try to railfan a little, if I can...
Well I was going, but my uncle called, he needs truck help, now I can't go! and he lives near chicago. If I go to his house, I might make it.-but I doubt it.
I get to watch Grafton & Upton cut up their ALCo... :(
Although that is bad GG,
my uncle lives next to a very busy Metra line, and then a UP line. And in Delaware, in my grandma's shed, he has all his HO stuff, with over 20 engines and 100+ cars. and 40 ft of track.
Quote from: Guilford Guy on May 10, 2008, 11:26:02 AM
I get to watch Grafton & Upton cut up their ALCo... :(
What type? :(
I'm most likely going to restore a few old enignes to working order and maybe later go rail fanning a little.
For National Train day, I biked a hilly 10 miles in the blazing Texas sun to get to a railroad crossing, but after 20 minutes no trains came. :-\
At the Bike Trail near my house that used to be an old B & O RR line and we already found some cool stuff like RR plates and spikes and A PART OF A REAL WORKING STEAM ENGINE so Im going to explore some more in the woods.
-Cody L. Jackson, Eastern Ohio
The Museum was great, I got to run my HO engine on their HO layout, then some tourist came in and I got to run the O scale layout, and turn on the N scale trains. Plus my dad bought me a golden hat pin <not real gold, but gold colored> of an engine. He also bought me a pen, and a mouse pad to replace the older and worn out one. We also got to see two CN freighters, the and for me- The inside of an Ex-ATSF and Ex-Amtrak coach. Fully refurbished. Now I'm waiting to go to my uncle's home for a BBQ. Finally, all day I've worn a train hat with 14 slide on pins and 5 pop-on pins.
I just love National Train Day!
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I spent the morning at the local yard, taking pictures of turnouts and cars. UP stores a lot of extra cars here, so there is a large selection to study.
Now I'm organizing all the pictures of locomotives I've downloaded, burning CDs for backup.
Post them in my train pictures thread!
It's an S4, I left a note on the side of it, as well as on the excavator door, asking for the builder's plate, horn, and bell.
Big downer,
The only reason I didn't attend the Union Station event was because I was going to my uncles today, but our cars broke down, we missed it for no reason...
I went to Penn Station and was there all day 10-3. Was anyone else there?
How was it?
I was at Union Station (D.C.), and it was much more crowded then I expected. They were offering tours of an HHP-8, and the line was longer than many boarding lines for trains to New York. Northern Virginia N-Trak had an excellent layout set up as well. Overall, it was a fun event.
Timothy
I know this year was the First National Train Day but will this be an annual thing? Will there be one next year if not I will be VERY Mad!!!
-Cody L. Jackson
Well me and cody have something in common,
We want to go next year.
Quote from: Guilford Guy on May 10, 2008, 06:36:59 PM
It's an S4, I left a note on the side of it, as well as on the excavator door, asking for the builder's plate, horn, and bell.
How did that go? :-\
They were unsure about the bell, but said the builders plate and horn were gone. I asked them if I could have part of the control stand and they said possibly.
If there is National Train Day next year Ill see if my mom will take me to the one in Cincinnati but only if the idea I have about hosting one myself doesnt work.
-Cody L. Jackson
Go National Train Day
Chicago is for me, even then, it's the closest, but it is still pretty far.
;) As dissapointing as it is not to be at the first one, I'll try for the second time, but you know what they say,
Third time's the charm.
i did not get a chance to get to PENN STATION yesterday
how ever from what i read online from amtrak
was there was going to be a show with the harlem globetrotters
and a model train display
prr thomas lets hear how it was
good luck john t brooklyn ny
Penn Station was great. I loved the layout there. Being an N scaler I Thought it was really cool. It was made by the New Jersey Southern nTrak club. Amtrak also had some computers set up to play train simulator which was fun. They had some nice sweepstakes prizes too. The first three were Acela tickets and tickets for Young Frankenstein on broadway. The grand prize was an Amtrak vacation to Vancouver and back. The railroad photographer John Acursco there who had an exhibit with some of his photos and he was signing free prints. One of the best parts of the whole thing was that it was completely free. When you entered the contest you got a bag with a t-shirt, poster, bumper sticker, pencil, and some other things. They had a section for kids and they got engineer hats and whistles. Lot brochures there to from all different tourist railroads and companies. The Globetrotters were great too. They had a basketball hoop and little court set up to play on. They couldn't have the main Globetrotters there because they were on tour but they had 5 of them and Curly Neal there! They did a routine, let the crowd ask questions then signed autographs. When they left you could shoot a basketball to win a free t-shirt so I played basketball in Madison Square Garden. The whole event was a great time for all and I highly recommend going next year. I assume it will be on May 9 to keep it on a Saturday. I had a lot of fun. The best part was I got to ride the train straight there. ;)
I'm going back to the G&U tomorrow. The S4 has been pretty much harvested by railfans... I want to see if they'll give me the rear door, and the horn, and possibly the headlight, off the 44 tonner, which shall also meet its fate this week.
Quote from: Guilford Guy on May 12, 2008, 07:15:54 PM
I'm going back to the G&U tomorrow. The S4 has been pretty much harvested by railfans... I want to see if they'll give me the rear door, and the horn, and possibly the headlight, off the 44 tonner, which shall also meet its fate this week.
Oh, why do they have to do this....
It's progress, Paul. Progress is worth anything...
:'(
Timothy
I asked the price on the flanger, they said 2000$... I don't have the money but wish I did. the 44 Tonner was 20 grand, and S4 was never for sale...
well tom
im sure you enjoyed youtrself
i hope amtrak makes this a yearly event
and that next year there more railroad
rather than a basketball show
what i mean is more to do with railroading and maybe
history about rairoading
im sure this sucess will help them plan nexts years
good luck john t brooklyn ny
Hey GG, is there anything left of the S4? I belong to a group that has 3 S-2's, a MRS-1, and a boxcab- they're always looking for ALCo parts
Will be there until the end of this week... Then it will be sliced and diced, and made into silverware!
ALCo
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Remains of Flanger+Cabosoe
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Crane, already lost its boom, and housing, and they started cutting into the other end...
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The people doing the scrapping seemed friendly, friendly enough to let me onto the loco...
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