Sorry Don. Didn't mean anything personal. I truly wasn't sure what you meant at first. Now I understand. :TU: Here's The C & O 614 as makes its way to Port Jervis, New York in the Fall of 1995. I rode on this 4-8-4. This thing is intense to hear roaring past man. It hit 79mph on this ride. :eek2: Edit: Locomotive #614 is 16 feet tall, 112 feet long and weighs-in at 434 tons. She develops approximately 5,000 horsepower and, at her peak, is capable of running at 120 miles per hour. :jd:
Steam's neat, but I never want to ride in one. Especially when it's 90* out. Besides I would have to be the fireman as I have no engineers license.
i could learn to do it, i still have a engineers license,issued per FRA regs. i was trained by a former ATSF field instructor i operated an alco s1 for 10 years on a local tourist line.
Some classic Northeast Corridor pics. :Brow: PRR GP38 2941 being moved from Linden Yard to Oak Island.
This used to be my backyard basically when I was in Jersey. April 22, 2001. CSX SD60I 8734 leads a short manifest freight over the Durie Ave. crossing by milepost 15 on the CSX Riverline.
Not exactly scenic, but this is where I work. Good ole' Youngstown, OH on the Mahoning Valley Railway. We donated the caboose, former P&LE #505, on behalf of Make a Wish Foundation to Kirk Pilkner. Poor kid and his brother both had Systic Fibrosis.
remember these ? there's 2 of them that are regularly used on the BNSF line here the doors and windows are welded shut,says platform use only on them
love those E units those GP's are great pullers here's a ex conrail unit being leased by the Kansas & Oklahoma RR, which was laying over in the BNSF yard here
Don't know about your little GP's, but out GP-9's are about useless. We use them on our locals. They don't make amperage till about the 4th notch. They really suck for switching. The egghead management types decided to put computer chips in all of out SW's as well to control wheel slip and save fuel. Now they don't want to pull anything either. They took away what they did best (pull the world at 5 MPH) and made them dumb. They don't kick worth a damn anymore either. The engineers do things they're not supposed to do to trick the computer (akin to a neutral drop). What I don't understand is if they wanted to save fuel, why put the computer's in the engines with 12 cylinders when those junk SD-45's we have got 20.
Sloan Cornell's bridge got hit by a tornado!!! Maybe now since the Leeper Garbage Dump bought the Knox and Kane they'll open that line up again. They'll just fill the valley in with garbage and sell the rest of the bridge for scrap.
Nice thought, but when there was a bridge there they didn't need it. That's why in 1955 the Erie abandoned it and started running trains via the old B&O main to interchange with the Pittsburg and Shawmut at Brockway. Well now there is no Shawmut and no need for the bridge and the state is dropping a whopping $7 million to repair the 9 standing towers........$7million dollars would pay for welded rail and surfacing of about 40 miles of the B&P mainline or real signals and CTC!! :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant:
Oh yeah........this is what's left after the tornado! They should of fixed it before the tornado hit. It sat dormant for 3 years.
