Train Stuff

A little run down my memory lane to entertain you guys.

Here's a cool New York Central video about boiler maintenance of the locomotive variety.
http://youtu.be/NjxjLD00Pzc?list=PLTHhpn6ck1ngu9l ... d7VYLngRA4

Back when luxury travel was actually luxury travel. What real customer service was like. Now a days I think you have to go overseas to get this level of travel. I think there's a train in Canada still like this. I don't know for sure. Matt

Matt, Awesome pics. Thanks for sharing all those cools parts. I don't know much about locomotives but they are fascinating. Great works of art and machinery.
Kevin

The turn of the century railroad system was perhaps representative of the zenith of human organization. Man and machine united on a vast, unthinkable scale to move an entire Nation and all of it's goods. All at the same time.
There is nothing else really that equals that accomplishment in my opinion.

Now the Pullman Limiteds were the epitome of modern civilization as well. Service and transportation managed down to every last detail. The immense corporate pride evident in monogrammed linens, custom china patterns for each meal and each train, custom menus, gleaming brass, stained glass reflected in polished hard woods. Each car had a name not a number.
Rolling through the night in clean, crisp bed sheets while your suit was pressed and your shoes polished. Those trains were statements of humanity's victory over time and space.
Nothing today compares to those grand conveyances rolling coast to coast during that glorious era named the Steam Age.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeuPEE-Meso Saw this locomotive in Roanoke before the restoration. Its a BIG locomotive.

Great videos guys, I had no idea all this was going on in 2014, tons of stuff to youtube..

Love the sound of the old EMD 567 blower engines. EMD used twin roots blowers on there engines. They sound so much nicer than the newer turbocharged 645. Then you have the Alco and then GE engines that always sound like there ready to blow up.
EMD always had the don't F**K with me sound. Matt



EMD 567 prime mover
http://s906.photobucket.com/user/farrellrc/media/ ... 0640311025
Really miss running the EMD SD70Ace locomotives when I worked at CSX.

Looking into the air box. EMD's are 2 stroke. Hence the awesome sound and instant power. Matt

SD70ace. Not my video. Reminiscing of when I use to run real trains. Not these 7 car passenger trains. Reported to Framingham hundreds of times. Matt

I love this stuff.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Museum is located in Strasburg Pennsylvania that sits in quiet Lancaster County. It features over 100 locomotives / cars dated 19th and 20th century that are old and abandoned looking as well as fully restored back to its glory. This museums goal is to bring these locomotives that were once the most used transportation source in the late 1800s to mid 1900s back to life. Through out the video you will tour the outside which has a few old locos waiting to be restored some sitting there for many years. There is also a turn table outside. Inside however are a lot of fully restored trains ranging from steam, to diesel, and to electric powered. This might not be the abandoned type video you are use to seeing from me but this place is worth checking out. It is open to the public for tours so check them out at http://www.rrmuseumpa.org

Cool pix DePippo, you must have had some great experiences..

Yes Grumpy. Unfortunately some experiences I have to take to grave. Family and I have been to the Railroad Museum of PA and the Strasburg. The Strasburg is the best tourist railroad I've been to yet. The quality of there equipment restoration is amazing. Amazing they use operating steam engines. Here's a picture of a old ball signal. This guards the crossing of the B&M and Maine Central. Seeing how this is a public site I'll just say it's somewhere in New England. The position of the balls indicated which railroad had authority to proceed over the crossing. The state owns the property. The tracks still get used for a occassional equipment move. Matt

The flying switch or flying/rolling cars by. Severely frowned upon by railroad management. If you were going for the quit you flew cars by. I don't remember, but I think there was a rule against it. Matt

I'm just in awe with all this, a bit before my time but I watched one doc of this engine and it maxed out at 110 MPH, thats just wow for a steam Loco. I really want to learn in great detail how these great machines worked...