TFSPhoto From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 1782 times:
Hi there folks,
Worked yesterday helping out with this rail tour from market deeping to carslile.. I hauled the 12 units from upto carlisle and then the steamers hooked up.. and pulled back to York.
FlyAUA From Austria, joined exactly 8 years ago today! , 4604 posts, RR: 57 Reply 1, posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 1770 times:
That would be a bit like saying this is what you call "real aircraft"
Jetjack74 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 7336 posts, RR: 52 Reply 6, posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 1736 times:
Like the Sir Nigel Gresley on the North Yorks Rail
Or The Mallard
And the Flying Scotsman
I rode the Gresley from Hellifield to Leeds in 1984. We stopped at Keighley, Bingley/Crossflats and then Leeds and back.
FlyAUA From Austria, joined exactly 8 years ago today! , 4604 posts, RR: 57 Reply 7, posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 1736 times:
Concord977 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1261 posts, RR: 29 Reply 9, posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1666 times:
TFS,
Great photos. Composition is everything! And I love the sepia effect.
ANCFlyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 1524 times:
Excellent, excellent pictures.
Can't beat an old, powerful Steamer.
Having been born into the diesel age, I hear often from my Father, retired railroader, about various and sundry times he worked steam engines, as an engineer or fireman. His favorite job was hauling the old Milwaukee Road Olympian Hiawatha through Montana. Electric units were used to haul the train over the rockies, and then it was steam all the way to Chicago.
I have many photos of White Pass and Yukon steam - I ought to scan them and post a few - featuring a 1949 Baldwin 4-6-2 narrow guage #73. Still runs today, used on tourist trains on the same line.
TriStarEnvy From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2265 posts, RR: 4 Reply 14, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1433 times:
Waaaaay back in '76, for the Bicentennial, I believe, there was a big honkin' 4-8-4 pulling around several cars full of historical items, and such. I remember it coming to Houston, and then passing thru Sugar Land, my hometown, a day later. What a sight.
Now, I recall the Flying Scottsman, or a locomotive of similar vintage coming to the US, at some point. Isn't there a difference between US and UK railroad gauges?
If you don't stand for SOMETHING, you'll fall for ANYTHING.
RODOL From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 15, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1425 times:
Hey Lew, nice pics! I had Black 5 45407 past me at work a few weeks ago, although it wasn't under my signalling. The only time I have had that privelege was about 5 or 6 years ago when an 8F came to Buxton for the retirement of the old ICI vacuum braked hopper wagons. I think it even worked a train! Still can't beat a 'peak' hauling them though! Proper locos they were !!!
JGPH1A From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1398 times:
Those slam-door carriages in your photo's are hardly nostalgic - don't you still get those on Connex South Thing or whatever it is that goes to Gatwick ? I hate them.
Myt332 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2003, 9112 posts, RR: 74 Reply 20, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1365 times:
Quoting Gkirk (Reply 19): Can't beat a Pendolino between Preston and Carlisle, ey Alex
Indeed. I've now traveled the whole length of the west coast mainline on a Pendildo. Hoorar!
Anyway, I'm sure it's time for you to try out the Virgin Trains Experience too. Preston, how quaint.
Oh and last night as we arrived at 00:18, the train manager even said goodnight godbless to us all, how, weird?! Then the train died until the morning. BMI of the rails.
Gkirk From UK - Scotland, joined Jun 2000, 24621 posts, RR: 58 Reply 21, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1359 times:
Quoting Myt332 (Reply 20): Anyway, I'm sure it's time for you to try out the Virgin Trains Experience too. Preston, how quaint.
It shall indeed. I have, however travelled onboard thon Pendolino things from Carlisle-Penrith, and got one of those Voyager things on the way back to Carlisle...
When you hear the noise of the Tartan Army Boys, we'll be coming down the road!
CurtisMan From Canada, joined Jun 2005, 996 posts, RR: 52 Reply 22, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1359 times:
Choo Choo.... must say I enjoy a nice train ride. Last May I rode the train from Edmonton to Vancouver... 24 glorious hours through the majestic Canadian Rockies. And last week was the Eurostar for the first time. It was great flying by at 300 km/h past the house of a good a.net friend!
Greyhound From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 1026 posts, RR: 2 Reply 23, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 1341 times:
If you've ever been to the Grand Canyon, then you've probably had a chance to see the Grand Canyon Railway. It offers seasonal service to/from Williams, AZ and the Grand Canyon Village. Seasonal at least until snow and ice forces the rail line to close. They start using a diesel-electric engine when it gets too cold for the normal engine to build up steam. At least that's the way it was when I worked at the GCNP.
BMIFlyer From UK - England, joined Feb 2004, 8810 posts, RR: 62 Reply 24, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 1294 times:
Hey Lew, cool pics (again)
See ya around
Lee
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
25 FDXMECH: Lew Nice pics. Love those steamers. What's the wheel configuration (2-4-2, etc)
26 Mirrodie: Those are some real excellent photos and some pretty well preserve rolling stock! I've a question. A few years back, when I flew to LHR, I took that H
27 ANCFlyer: www.whitepassrailroad.com Some excellent pictures of vintage steam, vintage passenger operations and purpose built diesel electrics on a narrow gauge
28 57AZ: That would be the Southern Pacific Daylight No. 4449. She was only one of the locomotives involved with the 1976-77 Freedom Train (not to be confused
29 Xr8FordGirl: LOl Nothing wrong with British steam. We used to have a weekly service where I live that ran from Melbourne to Warrnambool (Victoria, Australia) that
30 RODOL: Looks like two engines on there, 76079 is I think a BR Standard (ie built after the 1948 nationalisation) 4-6-0, and the other one maybe a Stanier Bl
31 RODOL: Actually follow the link to the rest of Lew's pics, there is a decent side-on view of both locos, and it is indeed a Black 5, maybe 45407?.
32 TFSPhoto: Hi there! Many thanks for the wonderful comments.. both loco's are as follows: Front: 76079 Back: 45407 cheers, Lew
33 Boeing4ever: Boiler Up! B4e-Forever New Frontiers
34 Navymidn: Its the Boilermaker Special!!! Man that thing gets annoying on the mornings of football games, but its still a cool school symbol.
35 L-188: I have to admit it, it takes guts to go hi-marking with a train
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