Took a train ride day after TGiving ….
this is one of the better shots.
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We go to Lancaster PA every year for TGiving .... and my boy just turned 3 on the 28th ... so last year we added a new step to the tradition ... train rides for everyone. He loves anything and everything train.
Which thrills my Dad ... his Papa ... as Dad was a RR worker.
Across from the train station they have the PA Railroad Museum. It's a big warehouse with about 40 or so engines from all eras.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA
Thanks Buck. Love that streamliner shot. Nice to see another Shay locomotive.
you might like this one. Looked a block long, tho I'm sure that's an exageration.
It was sure a neat way to travel. I remember the Burlington Route out of Cleveland and beyond Chicago. The scenic liner's were brand new. Sleepers. And my best experience, the Orient Express. Just like the movies, a real adventure. Anyone that can relate a more recent trip on the rails, sure would like to try it again.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Man, that thing looks powerful. PM me your email and I'll send you some pics of a fully refurbished CPR mainline locomotive (circa 1930) that pulled into town here this Fall.
A long retired friend of mine was a steam locomotive curator for some 25 years. His proudest achievement was the total refurbishment of Shay No. 3 (mfg. in 1924 or 1925), and operated by a British Columbia coastal lumber company until 1942, then on Vancouver Island till '74.
And a lightened version, with the shadows opened up...I don't know about yours, but my church isn't a hotel for the holy, it's a hospital for sinners
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Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Edited 12/2/2004 7:04 am ET by calvin
Edited 12/2/2004 7:04 am ET by calvin
In a similar vein....
What the heck did they use that for?
"I will never surrender or retreat. " Col. Wm. B. Travis, The Alamo, Feb. 1835
Snow Plow.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA
snow plow as jeff says,
OR, something to move those cows off the tracks where you're from. Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
The cattle in Texas are big but dang if I ever saw one that big.
"I will never surrender or retreat. " Col. Wm. B. Travis, The Alamo, Feb. 1835
Yeah, but everyone knows the Canadian cows are mad!
LOL.
That's why they're banned?
"I will never surrender or retreat. " Col. Wm. B. Travis, The Alamo, Feb. 1835
Edited 12/2/2004 7:28 pm ET by intrepid_cat
Madder 'n hell they is. We fed some to GWB in Halifax yesterday...watch and learn.
begging for annihilation.............and you say just the cows are mad?
"I will never surrender or retreat. " Col. Wm. B. Travis, The Alamo, Feb. 1835
Yeah, we live vicariously through our cows.
poor pitiful souls you must be..............
"I will never surrender or retreat. " Col. Wm. B. Travis, The Alamo, Feb. 1835
Have you ever been to the Horse Shoe Bend and museum in Altoona PA. ?
From the photos DW took last summer, it looks like a neat place. Lots of train history made there, since that is where they use to build so many of them.
Dave
We were just talking about hitting the Curve sometime next spring ...
you can see my Mom's Grandma's house from the tracks.
It's been so long I don't remember much ... but we used to take that train ride all the time as kids ... I remember you got to see the end of the train if ya sat up front the radius was so tight.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA
pics Buck Construction
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Have you ever been to the Horse Shoe Bend and museum in Altoona PA. ?
I had the good fortune to see both two summers ago, Altoona is awsome, the curve was a bit difficult to find due to road construction detours but more than worth the hassel. I spent most of the day at the curve waiting for a string of freights and gabing with some local railfans. Last summer I had an extra day to kill and went to Steamtown in Scranton Pa. a must see if you are into that sort of thing.
Happened to see your posting on Horseshoe Curve and Steamtown. I have been a closet railfan for years. I used to visit Steamtown when it was up in Vermont, before they moved it to Scranton. Great place though. Its like stepping back into the 1940's. Can you imagine standing near the tracks when one of those behemoth steam engines came roaring by at 60 m.p.h? A few years back I took an excursion trip on a recently restored steam engine outside of New York. What an experience. If you ever get the chance to ride in a train pulled by a steam engine, go for it. Its so unlike riding in a present day train. Another great place to go is the Baltimore and Ohio Railway museum in Balitmore. They have acres of engines- steam, early diesel and electric, parked around that you can just amble around. You can easily spend a day there.
Yeah I know what you mean, I ride steam whenever possible. Cass scenic railroad in Va, Silverton Durango in Co, Strassburg in Pa are a few I had been lucky enough to have been on. Two years ago some club sponsored a restored steam run through northern Michigan where I live. I spent the better part of the day chasing it down at the crossings, quite a thrill to hear and feel the massive engine thunder on by. My dad worked for the German railroad after the war as a fireman on main line steam. I was just a kid but in my minds eye I can still see him reach down with his black coal dusty hands and pull me up into the cab whenever my mom brought him his meals between runs. After high school I worked as a machinist and in my spare time helped a friend build a live steam (1/4 scale I think) locomotive, someday I hope to build one myself.
Thanks for the tip on the Baltimore, I'll check it out the next time I'm out that way.
"Can you imagine standing near the tracks when one of those behemoth steam engines came roaring by at 60 m.p.h?"
My Dad spent 45 yrs working on the railraod. Most of it as a signalmen maintainer ... the guy that fixed all the electric in those big track side switch boxes for the lights and signal arms etc ...
tells a story about someone not shutting down a set of tracks he was to be working along side ...
he was working between two sets of tracks ... got a call that the last train was coming down the open tracks .... no big deal there ...
then ... gets a call that a train didn't get switched right ... and another one was coming on the other tracks ... in the opposite direction ....at the same time!
he was "stuck" in the middle of the 2 sets of tracks ... with a train barreling by on both sides ...
said when you're that close ... you just try to bury the toe of your boot in the gravel and hope not to fall .... this time ... the force of each train was "sucking" his feet apart ... and toward each train.
Said he never knew he could do a split that wide!
for some reason ... after all those years of working on that high voltage in the rain and snow .... he doesn't mind doing household wiring hot?
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA
After Rhodefest we visited my brother and family. Drove to Easton, PA for the train ride.
Where in Easton, the city of my nativity, is that???Andy Engel
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Ralph, correct me if I'm wrong, but, isn't that train in Phillipsburg, NJ, just across the river from Easton ? I can hear the whistle from downtown, but I would swear it was across the Delaware.
carpenter in transition
That's the place. You walk down a hill and the old line goes under the highway and the other active tracks. They call it a scenic ride along the river but they should really cut back the brush so it becomes scenic. Also goes right by some people's back yards. Get to see the scenic laundry and the scenic rusty cars and the scenic kids toys and swings.
Then we went to Easton. (I'm pretty sure this time I got it right). Bought some Crayons.
yep, welcome to Pburg.
what they really ought to do is take the train across the bridge that crosses the fork of the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers. it's a pretty long steel bridge that could really give the passengers a thrill. especially if they went in reverse to get back.
it's nice to hear you were in my hometown.
do you think there would be teeth marks in that crayon if they left the lid off ?
carpenter in transition
Cath's best friend Roseanne's Dad worked in that Crayola factory ...
not sure what color he made .....
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA