Anyone Else Fascinated By Old Locomotives?

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Rail Fan Day? Couple of fine looking locomotives...

 

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This one must of made the earth shake...Pennsylvania Railway

 

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Well someone has some explaining to do...Just weird

 

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Pennsylvania Rail Road Streamliner...

 

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Pennsylvania Rail Road Streamliner...

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Reminds me of Buckhorn's Studebaker Murray. He hasn't been back for a while after selling his Vette. Are you still in touch with him? Wonder if he is still racing....

 

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Eric, I have not heard from Doug (Buckhorn 76) in quite a while. We used to have a great time with our "Lunch at Doug's" get togethers and I miss seeing all those guys. Keith Tedford is the only one who seems to be still around and that is good.

I will try to find out how Doug is doing and if he is still racing the Studebaker. Your are right the train does look similar.

 

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The original and short lived Timmy's Rail Way Coffee and Donuts...

 

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I knew the engineer on the Ontario Northland that ran daily from North Bay, Ontario to Toronto. There was a chip truck in a little town called Brechin, Ontario that was right by the tracks. They would call ahead order fries and one of them would run to pickup the order. I am sure a lot of passengers were PO'd they did not get fries.

Their train used to get into Union Station in Toronto right a rush hour. Somewhere coming south one day they hit a moose and despite their efforts they could not dislodge the unfortunate beast. They pulled into the packed station with the attached moose and the screaming started, the folks were horrified at the sight. Yikes.

Got to ride that train once in the cab, it was a lot of fun.

 

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Rock Island RR

 

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Another Pennsylvania RR earth shaker. Hauling coal was a tough job through the mountains of Pennsylvania....

 

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Even Santa like trains...

 

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Of course he does...
That’s why they had the ‘SANTA FE’.
ha ha
graham

 

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Not sure this "Express" train is going to arrive on time...

 

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Not sure this "Express" train is going to arrive on time...
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I sure as hell wouldn't be one of the people standing under it

 

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All steamed up and ready to go...

 

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It could be heading for the ol' spin-the-engine game

 

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Fred, with my great powers of observation I did not even notice the turntable. Damn, I am losing it.

 

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Long gone Chessie System...Massive bridge

 

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Arlo Guthrie wrote a song about the City of New Orleans train...wonder if this is it?