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One of my longest lasting hobbies has been trains. I got involved with them as a kid, because my stepfather was a big train fan. We used to go to all the train shows, and even made the trip to Steam Town once when I was young. I am into almost every aspect of them. Models, the real thing, history. I am even building my house within site of the tracks, and have an old abandoned line across the street. I have posted a picture shot from what will be my side yard. Any one else into trains?
Paul Bradway
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Re: Any train people?
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10/12/02 11:45 AM
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Just wish there were more passenger trains instead of those awfull monstrocities called freeways.
Travelling by train is the most enjoyable way to go in my estimation. Of course there may be times when one would have to transfer to a ocean going vessel.
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Re: Any train people?
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10/12/02 11:54 AM
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I'm not, myself, but have had past friends who were into trains. Some of them actually had old cars collected on their property. Have you got that far yet?? 
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10/12/02 01:28 PM
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Have you got that far yet??
Nope, not yet. But if the right deal came across................
I am giving some thought to a 7 1/4 gage ride on train on the land. But hay, I'm a little strange sometimes. [sometimes????? ]
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Re: Any train people?
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10/14/02 07:26 AM
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I like 'em, watching and listening. Been to shows, had a HO set when I was a kid, but not an intense fan.
But I live about a mile away from a main line that has about two or three freights an hour during the day. It is maddening to be able to hear them but not to see them! Wish I could install some kind of 'train-cam' so I could watch them on the computer when I hear them coming.
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Re: Any train people?
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10/14/02 02:39 PM
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depends on what you mean by "train people". Steam? Yep!
Always try to tailor my trips and vacations around steam train museums (or working "museums". See my "steam train" thread on TBN.
One of these days, I'll find the time to get back to my modelling .... have several HO and N scale sets boxed up waiting for new dioramas to be built .... gotta finish up the shop first, though.
it's a shame that common sense isn't
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Re: Any train people?
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10/15/02 02:30 PM
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yeap. 1 1/2" live steam is my hobby. I enjoy sitting on my hobby.
Tennessee Country http://www.tncountry.com
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10/15/02 04:15 PM
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What, no pictures?
Gary
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Hey! Aren't you supposed to be working?
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Re: Any train people?
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10/15/02 04:58 PM
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http://www.hals.org
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Re: Any train people?
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10/15/02 05:22 PM
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Looks like everyone else is into the bigger stuff. I had an HO layout (the Amnicon & Brule - named after 2 rivers in Northern Wisconsin) for quite awhile before it was "sacrificed"  for the betterment of the family - we needed a new family room don't you know!
Anyway, it was going to be an L shaped layout about 12' on one leg and 8' on the other. I had the basic track layout down on the 8' section and even had some landscaping finished when the remodeling fairy showed up! Haven't had the room to start another one. The wife thinks I want to build a new house in the country to get out in the country. True, but the other real reason is to have room to re-start the layout in the room adjacent to where I'll store my tractor! 
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Re: Any train people?
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10/16/02 11:23 AM
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Nope your not the only one. I am into HO, I have some G stuff that I am planing to build a garden railroad with.
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Re: Any train people?
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10/20/02 10:09 PM
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I work for a railroad and let me tell you freight railroads are the most cost efficient and environmentally friendly form of transportation we have here in the US. It's too bad that our government subsidizes every other form of transportation except railroads!
P.S. I've got a friend with a 1942 Pullman in his back-yard .... kind of a crazy hobby huh?
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Re: Any train people?
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10/21/02 08:38 PM
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We took a den of Cub Scouts on a train adventure yesterday. We have a Live Steamer Assoc nearby. They had thier fall meet this last weekend. They had electric, gas, and full steam trains running. There's some pictures of last meet on this web page. I heard they had over 40 trains running on Saturday.
www.svls.org/
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Re: Any train people?
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P.S. I've got a friend with a 1942 Pullman in his back-yard .... kind of a crazy hobby huh?
heck no ... actually common .... I started negotiations on my caboose with the CNR in Alberta but it was short-circuited by my transfer to Michigan. I'm still interested .... I'd love to move my computer room and library into a caboose! And a freight car to build my HO/N layouts in (and maybe a G under) ...
it's a shame that common sense isn't
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Re: Any train people?
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I'm with you, an office in an old Caboose would be the best!
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I have been thinking of building a shed to look like a caboose. Only thing holding me back now, is I want it to look real. So I am figuring out plans in my head to do it right.
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this is a long way from your neck of the woods but you maybe interested http://www.flindersrangescouncil.sa.gov.au/tourism/Quorn/index.html
I worked in the railways not that far from Ouorn at a place called peterborough during the 70s. My father was manager of the raliways for this whole area for many years and my brother is still involved in the railways in the area as a cival engineer. Peterborough was, i think the ony place in the world that had 3 Gauges meeting 3' 6' -- 4'8.5"-- 5' 3.25"
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Have a look at this.
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Cool! I like all that shelding on the front.
Paul Bradway
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I've been to the Ford Museum and seen their trains. I have been to the Railroad Museum south of San Diego and took a ride on their restored train out on the real tracks, cross country along the Mexican border.
As a lad I always liked the steam locomotives and enjoyed the returned waves from the engineer's firemen, and the brakeman in the caboose. Rare to see a caboose these days ond waves are hard to come by from many of the diesel electrics. A bygone era. I had a Marx brand wind up train and a Lionel electric. I used to sit under the table the Lionel was set up on so it sounded more realistic. Never had the fancy milk bucket loading accessories or a station but had an operating airfrcaft beacon and a railroad crossing that came down as the train passed.
Whoo whoooooo!
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Re: Any train people?
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trains Warthers Train carvings Cass Rairoad West Virginia http://www.cassrailroad.com/
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The only "train" museum I ran across in my travels was in Pennsylvania, if I remember right (and now I don't remember the town even). I had an uncle who died of a sudden, unexpected heart attack in 1943 (I was 3 years old), and I eventually inherited his gold Hamilton watch, his wallet with some interesting documents such as employee pay scales, etc. and I've thought of trying to sell, donate, or loan them to a railroad museum if I ever find one I'd want to have them. My uncle's title was "Chief Clerk to the Superintendent for All Lines; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad". He lived, and is buried, in Baltimore.
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Whoo whoooooo!
I think that says it all, Pat. Something about a train, and I don't know what that is, that brings us back to childhood.
My story starts with my stepfather. He was a big train fan, and a collector of old toy trains. My love of trains came early. I can remember my visit to Steam town, in the early 70's when I was a kid. Hoping the crossing gates are down, wile driving down that side street, And just watching any train that happands to be around.
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Bird, Yet another point of commonality. I recall the B&O from my time in Lima. THere was a Lima Baldwin Hamilton Locomotive works whose name says it all.
Unfortunately timing hasn't matched interest and I have only made two train trips and just one of those that I recall, the one on the Mexican border at the RR museum south of san Diego. My first train trip was in the later days of WW II when my mom was "smuggled on board" by some soldiers. It seems that seat access was prioritized, men in uniform first and the conductors were screening everyone, having a ticket wasn't enough.
A group of soldiers noticed my mom standing there with a todler at her side and a babe in arms (me) and said come on lady you're my buddy's wife. I'm told that I spent the best part of the trip being held by various soldiers and sleeping in their laps to give my mom a break and some time for my sister. She said a couple of them were down in the isle on there hands and knees helping me play with a wind up car. My mom says she thinks I was a symbol standing for all their kids, little brothers, and what they were on their way to fight for.
Too bad I can't remember it because it was a steam locomotive (I love 'em) and the museum ride was just a diesel electric. I hope to have time for some train rides after this house is finished.
There is a steam engine in operation out at Glacier National Park and I hope to ride that one day.
Oh by the way, I had an uncle in Mississippi who worked for the RR for decades but I wasn't in line for his RR watch. About RR watches... My dad told me that he had once asked a conductor if the train would be on time and the conductor pulled out his watch, cocked his head to listen to the trains progress from rail section to rail section and said they'd probably be a bit early as they were making real good speed. Seems they knew how many rail sections/min equated to what speed.
Board.... ALL A_B_O_A_R_D!
Patrick
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Re: Any train people?
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Paul, If steam locomotives were not enough, when my dad was a lad, some of the local farmers had steam tractors that had external pulley wheels to drive wide leather belts (primitive PTO) to operate threshers and such while the tractors were standing still. And yes, I'm told, they had steam whistles!
Hmmm, I wonder what it would take to retrofit my Kubota...
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