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Fan of Old Trains and Locomotion?

Galvatron

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I never took you as a Train spotter Rusty....but i must say the engineering aspect on the old steam locomotives is fascinating.

The most famous here i guess would be the Flying Scotsman....and what a beauty she is.
 

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Rusty Shackleford

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thats a gorgeous engine, galvy! ive always been fascinated by trains. i have my dad to thank for that. it is a shame that its all but forgotten nowadays

thanks, PG!
 

Galvatron

Spock and Galvatron < one and the same
Curious....when was the last time you took a trip on a Train Rusty???

The last time i did must have been Hmmmmmmm...... 1991....shit was you even born then :yum::yum::yum:
 

Rusty Shackleford

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LOL yes i was born then and i was 5 years of age. i dunno the last time i was on a train. was a loooong time
 

tommu56

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I took the grand kids on the WK&S Railroad they had a blast the train wasn't crowded and we rode 3 trips back and forth . for one ticket price

tom

 

RNE228

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Cool site.

Sacramento has an excellent train museum http://www.csrmf.org/

We have a pretty cool miniature closeby http://www.svls.org/

I have never been, but a few hours south of me, is the "movie railroad". It covers valley "priarie" to high mountians. 100's of tv and movie rail scenes have been shot there. "Petti Coat Junction" was filmed there. Hope to get there some day...
http://www.railtown1897.org/railtown/doc.asp?id=285

All those old trains are really cool.
 

Rusty Shackleford

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i love Petticoat junction!!! we have some railway/train museums here in PA, i will hafta find the websites. i remember long ago when my dad took me to a minatures/model trains shop or museum. i think it was a museum. was so long ago
 

tommu56

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Rusty
Roadside America

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Use 300 Gap Road, Ronks, PA 17572

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Rt. 741 East, Strasburg, Lancaster County, PA

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Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway
PO Box 91
Jim Thorpe, PA 18229


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PA-287 and Muck Road
Wellsboro, PA 16901

STEAMTOWN NATIONAL PARK
150 South Washington Avenue
Scranton, PA 18503-2018

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Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad Company
P.O. Box 218
Port Clinton, PA 19549
610.562.2100

TOM
 

OhioTC18

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The closest I have ever gotten to a real train was in Indiana at a coal fired power plant. My good friend works there in the coal yard and took me in on his day off to tour the facility. I did get to climb inside the locomotive that was sitting there idling. Then I got to see them dumping the coal into the yard feeder. The damned coal car was turned upside down to empty it, not out the bottom like I thought. The couplers were designed for it to do that.

This was a diesel locomotive, not one of the old timers. It was fun none the less.
 

RNE228

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This is a fun one to ride. It is 1.5 hours from me
http://www.virginiatruckee.com/

Felton, outside Santa Cruz has cool trains
http://www.roaringcamp.com/

Our Boy Scouts have taken the Skunk Train, from Fort Bragg, to Camp Noyo. the Scout camp is only accessed by a rail stop. Even for summer camp, when they bring in 1-200 boys, they all come/go by train
http://www.skunktrain.com/
http://www.redwoodbsa.org/CampNoyo.html

The "minitures" I posted previously, are not like HO scale minitures. They are tide on trains. I think they charge 50 cents or a dollar.
http://www.svls.org/Meets/2010Fallmeet/pages/_AWY2377.htm
Some of them are real steamers:
http://www.svls.org/Meets/2010Fallmeet/pages/_AWY2509.htm
 

NorthernRedneck

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Cool pics and links guys. My son is a huge train enthusiast. I was 12 the last time I took a train ride.

I remember watching a show called "Monster Moves". They moved an old steam locomotive from Bloomfontein South Africa to Glasgow Scotland. It was neat to watch them move that old steam loco over miles and miles of rail, then load it onto a ship to cross half the world and get it up to Glasgow. The train apparently had not moved in 30 years and was stored under cover the whole time which is why is was in such good shape.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlTISVynSbA"]YouTube - Monster Moves : The Train From Bloemfontein[/ame]

If you do some research, there is a scrap yard for old steam locomotives down in Bloemfontein South Africa. Trains from around the african continent are brought there to be torn down for scrap metal.
 
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Snowtrac Nome

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here in south east alaska thy have the whitepass rr it's an old narrow gauge steam engine that takes you back into the gold rush days
 

fogtender

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This is the Train going though Nenana a few years back that I took of the Alaska Railroad.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN8_WltgALg"]YouTube - Southbound Train though Nenana Alaska[/ame]
 

Cowboy

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Great link , vids & Pics . I allways have been a huge fan of the ole steam trains as well , I used to ride them at least once a year when I would go to Colorado for relaxing time :biggrin: .

Amazing what you can see from the trains that otherwise goes unnoticed , this is one of my favorite train trips , Not my video of coarse though . :wink:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9zNeaIs_2M&feature=fvw"]YouTube - Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad "Winter photo special train"[/ame]
 

Snowtrac Nome

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2 more railroad pieces these were known as motors rather than engines and were just automobiles of the day converted with railroad running gear if you wern't moving a lot of weight these were more effeciant to operate.
 

Snowtrac Nome

member formerly known as dds
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try this again forgot to let pics upload
 

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