From the Train - 4014 Barstow to Colton on 10-13-19
Oct 29, 2019 12:26:56 #
l can remember riding the Zephyr and looking out dome and viewing scenes like those. Brings back great memories.
Oct 29, 2019 16:59:58 #
fbeaston wrote:
Sounds like you raised some awesome kids. You’re a lucky guy.
Thanks
Oct 29, 2019 17:00:19 #
Oct 29, 2019 17:01:02 #
tcthome wrote:
Nice set. I have been on the one in Scranton with my dad.
thanks, kinda big isn't it?
Oct 29, 2019 17:01:22 #
Oct 29, 2019 17:03:53 #
jerseymike wrote:
Ok to this ole Jersey boy there is a whole lot of nothing along that train ride.
This is Southern California arid and desert mountains. If they had been here in say late Feb or March after our winter/rainy season that brush and stuff would be green.
Oct 29, 2019 17:15:36 #
bnsf wrote:
l can remember riding the Zephyr and looking out dome and viewing scenes like those. Brings back great memories.
I never rode a dome car but one of the pullmans with small rooms for one or two people have picture window size windows and give a good view. Oakland to St Louis in 1966 during an airline strike courtesy of the Army. I had a 17 year old private with me as my "dependent" on the ticket, fortunately someone goofed and got us each one of those rooms. Then the Army $5 meal vouchers-in a RR dining car!!!-but the head waiter saw us trying to figure out what we could eat and called the head conductor - WW II vet - he told us those vouchers were good for any meal w/drink on the menu.
I got a great cross country rail trip out of that airline strike. My Dad was a ground crew foreman in St Louis and union officer-he got his picture in an encyclopedia article about unions and strikes.
Oct 29, 2019 18:26:25 #
tcthome
Loc: NJ
robertjerl wrote:
thanks, kinda big isn't it?
old style cars where you can put down the windows. Have to be careful which way the wind is blowing that black smoke.
Oct 29, 2019 20:21:54 #
tcthome wrote:
old style cars where you can put down the windows. Have to be careful which way the wind is blowing that black smoke.
Out at the Railway Museum we get people complaining about the smoke from our little Prairie class oil burner.
I hate to think what they would say riding behind a coal or wood burner.
Oct 29, 2019 22:31:13 #
Oct 29, 2019 23:12:28 #
Oct 30, 2019 06:11:36 #
tcthome
Loc: NJ
robertjerl wrote:
Out at the Railway Museum we get people complaining about the smoke from our little Prairie class oil burner.
I hate to think what they would say riding behind a coal or wood burner.
I hate to think what they would say riding behind a coal or wood burner.
ah, good ole days!
Oct 30, 2019 06:30:08 #
robertjerl wrote:
My last(?) "Photo Essay" from Debra taki... (show quote)
Jerry, had to be a fantastic ride based on the photos. Looking forward to future sets.
Greg
Oct 30, 2019 12:14:11 #
tcthome wrote:
ah, good ole days!
In my history study I read descriptions by early train riders who complained of the holes burned in their clothes and hats by the embers from the locomotive.
Oct 30, 2019 12:19:12 #
CLF wrote:
Jerry, had to be a fantastic ride based on the photos. Looking forward to future sets.
Greg
Greg
Debra and Jon enjoyed it.
I guess I really should get all the shots from all four sources together and produce a united photo essay of their trip. Might be a while since the next two weekends I will be out at the railway museum announcing for the Fall Day Out With Thomas tour. And right now between the smoke coming in on the wind and all our fall pollenater plants I am having a sneeze-athon with coughing and congestion.
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