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bowmore said:
Hello and welcome. I volunteer on a tourist railroad in Southern Calif. I love trains. Right now I am restoring a 1941 GE 23 ton switch engine.
I am attaching some of my adventures for you to enjoy
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Wowee, that's vintage. Now that I'm no longer a steel horse cowboy with shiny britches I'm pondering joining OLI & Narcoa. Looking to buy a lightly used hi-railer from Harsco and ride the rails without the insanity of sitting in the hole for 5 hours, slow orders, praying the next switch around the curves was lined up right, fighting microsleep before the riding public even know what it was, broken commodes in the engines, being outlawed with nothing to eat waiting for the jitney driver who never seemed to know where the crews were. You know, stuff like that. That Modoc school still in business? Met a lot of guys who thought that was their ticket to ride, ten large for nothing, shame. Please keep in touch.
 
Aunt Marg said:
Yeah... that's "look out"! As in never a dull moment! ROFLMAO!

Notice how all the welcomes are from women so far? You're outnumbered here... we're going to be keeping a close and watchful eye on you! :)
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Ummm like this? Oh gee I can't post images. I was going to post HAL9000 because that's my middle name.
 

The president of out RR Society is a member of NARCOA and has a speeder. One thing my wife and I loved was to ride on private rail cars. Attached is her big birthday trip hooked up to the Coast Starlight.
 

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bowmore said:
The president of out RR Society is a member of NARCOA and has a speeder. One thing my wife and I loved was to ride on private rail cars. Attached is her big birthday trip hooked up to the Coast Starlight.
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You sir have the life. BTW in freight service depending on the consist especially if you're running DPU's and one or more engines don't react to telecommands instantly sometimes a 2% grade can be quite unnerving especially downgrade when the train starts pushing the lead engines.
 
bowmore said:
The president of out RR Society is a member of NARCOA and has a speeder. One thing my wife and I loved was to ride on private rail cars. Attached is her big birthday trip hooked up to the Coast Starlight.
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I never got an assignment pulling private varnish, executive & management inspection crew trains, very rare on the NEC. Those jobs probably went to the foreman of road engines or extra board crews. You must really love your wife because private varnish rental is very expensive.

www.amtrak.com/privately-owned-rail-cars

Are you on this run?

 
No, we would go with the California Zephyr group. They ran the Silver Lariat and the Silver Solarium. We took advantage of a repositioning run where they had to bring the cars from Seattle to Los Angeles. There were only 8 passengers on the trip.
The Silver Foot is an Ex-Union Pacific sleeper-lounge, converted to open-platform. It is named "Foot" because it is owned by
a group of podiatrists who operate a podiatry supply business. Some wag on the Train Odrers website said," SILVER FOOT?! Thank god they're not proctologists otherwise the car might be named "Silver A**".
 
bowmore said:
No, we would go with the California Zephyr group. They ran the Silver Lariat and the Silver Solarium. We took advantage of a repositioning run where they had to bring the cars from Seattle to Los Angeles. There were only 8 passengers on the trip.
The Silver Foot is an Ex-Union Pacific sleeper-lounge, converted to open-platform. It is named "Foot" because it is owned by
a group of podiatrists who operate a podiatry supply business. Some wag on the Train Odrers website said," SILVER FOOT?! Thank god they're not proctologists otherwise the car might be named "Silver A**".
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Silver A** LOL. I had some crew dispatchers should've been called that. Have a fun weekend.
 
Welcome,,, FastTrax

I used to tour guide on our local tourist train through the valley that changed the world.

Grew up need railroad,,liked to hear the engines pull a load up the little grade .
Many a night fell asleep listening to trains, clickity clack.

Have been to the Scranton rail museum, toured their restoration shop.
Very interesting.
 
Sliverfox said:
Welcome,,, FastTrax

I used to tour guide on our local tourist train through the valley that changed the world.

Grew up need railroad,,liked to hear the engines pull a load up the little grade .
Many a night fell asleep listening to trains, clickity clack.

Have been to the Scranton rail museum, toured their restoration shop.
Very interesting.
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Silverfox, which tourist RR did you guide on?
 
Sliverfox said:
Welcome,,, FastTrax

I used to tour guide on our local tourist train through the valley that changed the world.

Grew up need railroad,,liked to hear the engines pull a load up the little grade .
Many a night fell asleep listening to trains, clickity clack.

Have been to the Scranton rail museum, toured their restoration shop.
Very interesting.
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Thanks SIiverfox and a fine hello to you. I know Scranton well. That Wye was supposed to be the site in Unstoppable, only thing was the real runaway train CSX 8888 aka The Crazy Eights Incident was a runaway train in Ohio and not one person lost their life. But Unstoppable made for edge of the seat gripping excitement. An especially nice but very inaccurate touch was the crossing gates still going down after half the train passed through the various grade crossings. Also that devilish sound the train seemed to make like here comes impending doom. This film kind of reminded me of a railroad version of Christine by Stephen King. When I was a wee one I used to visit relatives in Willow Grove and spent most of my waking hours at Zoo Tower where the Harrisburg Branch headed West from NEC. I read the book "The Valley That Changed the World". Very good read.

www.oilregion.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstoppable_(2010_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_8888_incident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Railroad_museums_in_Pennsylvania

Here's one for you.

www.railroadcity.com/visit/world-famous-horseshoe-curve/


Have a good weekend.
 
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Sliverfox said:
Bowmore,,OC & T ,many years ago,,not long after they came into being.
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You are trying to make me work for it! Fortunately, I have a book of tourist RR's. It is the Oil City and Titusville RR. Interestingly, my late wife's grandparents lived in Oil City, and her mother was born there. Her grandfather was Rodreick MacKenzie, and he was the City Controller of Oil City.
 
jerry old said:
I vote for bull riders, not that many out there, crawling on a 16-1700 pound bull is crazy
The martial arts in cages in not a sport, it's savagery.
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MickaC said:
View attachment 115075@FastTrax Nice to have you here. Enjoy your time here. You do know women still rule, don't you. 😁😁😁. Okay......men do sometimes too.
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For sure us men do rule, uh huh.

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Thanks for the welcome and the reminder that if momma ain't happy ain't nobody happy. Lol.
 
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