Ace-Garageguy Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 This short documentary about the last days of steam on the railroads is one of the best things I've ever seen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixties Sam Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Great film, but kind of sad to see an era end. I'm glad that some steamers are still around in use on tourist railroads. Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Van Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Working right now on my 1/48 scale railroad. It's 35 x 20.....and will be steam era!!! To top it off I live in a county with more active steam locomotives than any other in the USA. Between Cass, Durbin and Elkins you can ride all of them. My great grandfather was a engineer for the B&O RR....only job he ever had.....so I come by it honestly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted November 28, 2017 Author Share Posted November 28, 2017 7 hours ago, Dave Van said: Working right now on my 1/48 scale railroad. It's 35 x 20.....and will be steam era!!! To top it off I live in a county with more active steam locomotives than any other in the USA. Between Cass, Durbin and Elkins you can ride all of them. My great grandfather was a engineer for the B&O RR....only job he ever had.....so I come by it honestly! Pretty cool. As a kid in both Cincinnati and Baltimore, I watched a lot of Baltimore and Ohio trains. Rode on a few too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnslow Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 That's a nice video . We were up in North Carolina last month and got to ride the Tweetsie RR narrow gauge train . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espo Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 13 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said: This short documentary about the last days of steam on the railroads is one of the best things I've ever seen... Thank you for the memories. I'm of an age that I remember as a child when the conversion to diesel engines began. As a child growing up in a "bedroom community" outside of Chicago I would ride with my mother to pickup my father in the evening at the train station when he would come home from work in down town Chicago. He rode the C&NW ( Chicago and North Western Rail Road) and they started using the diesel engine trains in the early '50's but the commuter trains were still steam at that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysleder Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 If I love steam locomotives.. Of course I do! What's not to love? A lot of people do. They even play romantic ballads about them. This is one of my favorites; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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