DCForum Discussion Forum - been on steam diesel passenger and freight live!

ive been on one of the up cw6000 there cabs are so close to the back wall i had to squeeze in and i was skinny then
i was even on a narow gauge working steam engine!
i think i can i think i can!

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RE: been on steam diesel passenger and freight live!, Macster, Apr-20-02, 11:33 AM, (1) RE: been on steam diesel passenger and freight live!, bcdef, Apr-20-02, 04:36 PM, (2) RE: been on steam diesel passenger and freight live!, Claude350, Apr-21-02, 09:14 PM, (3) RE: been on steam diesel passenger and freight live!, bcdef, Apr-22-02, 06:36 PM, (4) RE: been on steam diesel passenger and freight live!, ssw, Jun-03-02, 09:34 AM, (5) RE: been on steam diesel passenger and freight live!, TrainFreak, Jun-03-02, 09:55 AM, (6) RE: been on steam diesel passenger and freight live!, kevarc, Jun-03-02, 10:43 AM, (7) RE: been on steam diesel passenger and freight live!, davidbeach, Jun-03-02, 03:27 PM, (8)

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Try getting in the cab of a F59PHI... Small interior but a fun lil locomotive to bomb around the rails at 79mphBrian E. Bundridge
Seattle, WA USA

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LOL
have you ever seen a 4-4-0 workin in real life?
it was sweet it is a former BN branch loco!
it was small cab is so small i wonder how the engneer fireman and the shovel fit!

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Been on the f59.Nice and quiet too.You can even work on the thing while underway.

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when i was little i went on a UP cw6000
it was not werry loud, but the horn scrambles youre brain if you are not careful!

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>LOL
>have you ever seen a 4-4-0
>workin in real life?
>it was sweet it is a
>former BN branch loco!
>it was small cab is so
>small i wonder how the
>engneer fireman and the shovel
>fit! WAIT A MINUTE!
You mean to tell me that the BN was around back in steam days? Wow. And I only thought they had been around since 1980.

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I guess it is a loc that belonged to one of BN's predecessors..
To my knowledge BN was formed in 1970, when the Great Northern, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and one more road whose name I cannot remember merged.

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Original BN
Seattle, Spokane, and Nothern
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
C,B,&Q
Colorado & Southern
Fort Worth & Denver
Frisco added in the later 70'sIt is also interesting to know that at the time of BN forming Milwaulkee was given the chance to join and didn't. However it reserved the right to join at a laterr date as a condition of the merger. When the Mil was in bankruptcy it tried to merge itself into BN, but was turned down by BN and the ICC. After the Mil retreated from the west coast, BN took over operating some of the lines west as they were called.Kevin Arceneaux

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Everybody always seems to leave out the other railroad that was part of the original BN merger - The Walla Walla Valley.David Beach.

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