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IcyFireCharter Member · 340 posts

LAST EDITED ON Aug-05-02 AT 09:19 PM (EDT)

Interesting question I was thinking of, If you could travel time, and go back to witness any railroad based event, what would it be? the driving of the golden spike? or perhaps the first articulated? maybe you'd like to ride the super chief? For me, I'd say go back to 1950ish and take a ride on the O&W through mountains, heh and I wouldn't have to walk far, the stations right in town

Shawn "IcyFire" Kenselaar
"...But in a way the Big Boy never left, It still offers the high tractive effort, In a articulated wheel configuration!"

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bcdefCharter Member · 628 posts

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um the 1940's mid to see Big Boy Challenger and all those mosterous steam loco's before Retirement! oh and to be a teenager in the 50's!
that was a great time to be a teen! and to see the Hippy movements!
oh ya! perfect timeing! PEACE Love Freedom

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BN_9402Charter Member · 110 posts

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I'd go back to the early 70's and see the Milwaukee Road's Rocky Mountain Division in Montana. Seeing Little Joes and Boxcabs going through the Bitteroot Mountains in person would be awesome!!Austin S.
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MJLCharter Member · 371 posts

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A Rock Island freight operating over the line between Limon and Colorado Springs where I grew up.....
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(I bet thats rather under-impressive to the rest of you...)MattIf you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 4

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LordTaukCharter Member · 73 posts

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Feb. 23 1973, when Chessie System was formed from a merger of CO, BO, and WM railways :-POr the very first construction of the B&O railroad began

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plainsmanCharter Member · 1258 posts

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LAST EDITED ON Aug-06-02 AT 12:34 PM (EDT)

I agree, seeing the MILW electrics at work would be a real treat. i got to see the line working farther east, but the electrics were the defining moment for them. The U36C units were impressive as well, but mostly stayed on the West Coast. The F-M units on a graceful passenger set would be up there as well.
I did get to see some really spectacular RR events, I clearly remember the first GP7 run on the Wichita Valley, I was just a small child, but I still remember feeling a little uneasy, like a little bit of the world I had known had died. The steam came back for a while, but the GP7s were eventually indomitable.
I also got to see the hot T&P passenger E units at speed out west of Big Spring, Texas. These were quite a sight at speed in the wide open steppes.
Then there were the Santa Fe Doodlebugs, I used to ride them with my grandmother as a child. I didn't appreciate them for what they were at the time, quite a piece of the American scene.
And finally the great Pennsylvania GG!s. I got to ride the NEC behaind a pair of those when they were in their prime.
I got to see and hear lots of the U50 "whirlybirds" and even a little of the C-855.
I have watched the Milwaukee Road and Soo working in the snow of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota (even seen a flat nose Baldwin at work in the snow). I have also seen the Santa Fe out in its heyday in New Mexico, lots of SD24s and SD45s.
Now I see all the big UP monsters on the triple main, and the BNSF SD70Macs on the coal trains coming out of the sand hills.
I guess that is a pretty lucky bit of RR history to have seen. I didn't really go looking for these things, I just happened to live and work where they were taking place. Fortunate!
Bob

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UPnutMember since Jun-27-02 · 67 posts

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To be able to take part in the driving of the last spike on the transcontinental RR. when east meets west.-or-To beable to see the big C&O 2-6-6-6 Allegheny's running over the Appalachian Mountains.John

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lilman316Charter Member · 193 posts

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umm I'd like to see the CSX train catch that one loaded with chem. cars or I'd like to see the first big boy christened and pulling out of the production warehouse!

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CSX_CW60AC_GregMarckCharter Member · 475 posts

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I'd would want to railfan the Cincinnati Area between the 40-70s (I know its 30 years, so I guess its 30 years of events, lol)

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SharkNoseCharter Member · 200 posts

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I'd like to go back to 1911 (give or take a year) in Colliers, West Virginia. My grandfather's house was right next to the railroad and it burnt to the ground due to a spark from a passing locomotive. I'd like to see just what locomotive was the culprit. Nobody was hurt, fortunately, but I'd like to see the event. My grandfather worked for the Berwind-White coal company and it was probably a coal train that was going by at the time.

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bnsfrrCharter Member · 39 posts

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I would go back to the late 1940's/early1950's to watch SP cabforwards going over Tehchapi Pass. At the same time I could see the Daylight and the Owl- an overnight passenger train through Tehchapi with double-headed cabforwards!So who is going to build the time machine? NALW or TA? - MIKE - If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 8 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 9 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 10 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 11 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 12 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 13 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 14 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 15 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 16 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 17 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 18 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 19 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 20 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 21 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 22 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 23 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 24 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 25 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 26 If you could witness any RR event from the past? – image 27 -Trains from www.frograil.com/gifs/gifs.htm

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BigDaveCharter Member · 143 posts

Any RR event?

Mine would have to be one of three things : Wellington Bank, 1904, as "City of Truro" rumbles by, Stoke Bank, 1938, as "Mallard" takes the record, or to a certain shed in 1968 and stop a scrapman wrecking the last "Claud Hamilton".TTFN,

BigDave

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