SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    Moment of Americana. Smoke and Noise of another kind.
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
Moment of Americana. Smoke and Noise of another kind. Login/Join 
A Grateful American
Picture of sigmonkey
posted




Relax, and enjoy. Smile




"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
 
Posts: 44826 | Location: Box 1663 Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: December 20, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of cparktd
posted Hide Post
Now THAT is rolling coal for real...



Collecting dust.
 
Posts: 4237 | Location: Middle Tennessee | Registered: February 07, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Now and Zen
Picture of clubleaf206
posted Hide Post
Years ago the History Channel broadcast a series titled ‘Trains’, they had a lot of that sort, as well as archival footage. Recently the ‘Big Boy’ made a stopover at Union Station in KC, I sort of regret not making the three hour trip up there to see it.


___________________________________________________________________________
"....imitate the action of the Tiger."
 
Posts: 12277 | Location: The untamed wilds of Kansas | Registered: August 25, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Krazeehorse
posted Hide Post
Jolene and I road steam last fall on the Cuyahoga Fall Scenic Railroad. Second or third ride on that line but first for the steam. It was great.


_____________________

Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you.
 
Posts: 5767 | Location: Ohio | Registered: December 27, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Shall Not Be Infringed
Picture of nhracecraft
posted Hide Post
Solid 'Carbon Footprint' right there.... Cool


____________________________________________________________

If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !!
Trump 47....Make America Great Again!
"May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20
Live Free or Die!
 
Posts: 9789 | Location: New Hampshire | Registered: October 29, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of jrfixer
posted Hide Post
Thanks for posting! I've always liked this one

https://youtu.be/xp-b4Ce4Mf4


"It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

JR
 
Posts: 157 | Location: New Hampshire | Registered: June 02, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Snapping Twig
posted Hide Post
I like clean air as much as the next guy, but that coal rolling smoke cloud made me turgid - in a freedom sense.
 
Posts: 2864 | Registered: May 28, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of rtquig
posted Hide Post
I have take this train several times.

https://www.google.com/search?...yA5gQ9QEwGnoECAUQKQ#


Living the Dream
 
Posts: 4042 | Location: New Jersey | Registered: December 06, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
Smile = me when I see this.


===
I would like to apologize to anyone I have *not* offended. Please be patient. I will get to you shortly.
 
Posts: 2166 | Location: The Sticks in Wisconsin. | Registered: September 30, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Woke up today..
Great day!
posted Hide Post
I love steam power. Impressive piece of machinery right there!
 
Posts: 1864 | Location: Chicagoland | Registered: December 10, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
So dirty.
So inefficient.

So alive.

I would kill to co engineer that.


--
I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is.

JALLEN 10/18/18
https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...610094844#7610094844
 
Posts: 2442 | Location: Roswell, GA | Registered: March 10, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
member
Picture of henryaz
posted Hide Post
 
After spending several nights at a hospital right next to train tracks, I was kept awake all night with the whistles. Determined to find out what the code was, (and the same whistle sequence that train blew), two longs, a short, and a long means "engine in front crossing at grade".
 
Great stuff sigmonkey. Lots of well tuned mechanical work being done by those machines.



When in doubt, mumble
 
Posts: 10887 | Location: South Congress AZ | Registered: May 27, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of mikeyspizza
posted Hide Post
Those are cool, especially jrfixer's running down the middle of the highway.

I grew up around trains, grandpa was an engineer for Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad) and uncle worked in one of the many Chicago rail yards.
 
Posts: 4095 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: August 16, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Muzzle flash
aficionado
Picture of flashguy
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
Jolene and I road steam last fall on the Cuyahoga Fall Scenic Railroad. Second or third ride on that line but first for the steam. It was great.
I rode that trip in 2014--the Diesel, though.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...s/72157647418007819/

flashguy




Texan by choice, not accident of birth
 
Posts: 27911 | Location: Dallas, TX | Registered: May 08, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Yellow Jacket
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by henryaz:
 
After spending several nights at a hospital right next to train tracks, I was kept awake all night with the whistles. Determined to find out what the code was, (and the same whistle sequence that train blew), two longs, a short, and a long means "engine in front crossing at grade".
 
Great stuff sigmonkey. Lots of well tuned mechanical work being done by those machines.


It's also Morse Code for the letter "Q"



God's mercy: NOT getting what we deserve!
God's grace: Getting what we DON'T deserve!

"If the enemy is in range, so are you." - Infantry Journal

Bob
P239 40 S&W
Endowment NRA
Viet Nam '69-'70
 
Posts: 1099 | Location: Fayette County, GA | Registered: April 14, 2014Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Krazeehorse
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
quote:
Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
Jolene and I road steam last fall on the Cuyahoga Fall Scenic Railroad. Second or third ride on that line but first for the steam. It was great.
I rode that trip in 2014--the Diesel, though.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...s/72157647418007819/

flashguy

Nice pics. Thanks. We rode the Great Smokey Mountain Railroad after driving the Tail of the Dragon. Great train ride too.


_____________________

Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you.
 
Posts: 5767 | Location: Ohio | Registered: December 27, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Ammoholic
Picture of Skins2881
posted Hide Post
Too lazy to find pics from Durango & Silverton train, but if you ever are in CO, you should spend the time to make the ride.

There is something so soothing about the sound of a steam powered train.



Jesse

Sic Semper Tyrannis
 
Posts: 21371 | Location: Loudoun County, Virginia | Registered: December 27, 2014Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Krazeehorse
posted Hide Post
We are going to ride the Cass in WV this summer. They use Shay locomotives that were built (if I understand correctly) in Lima Ohio near where I live.


_____________________

Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you.
 
Posts: 5767 | Location: Ohio | Registered: December 27, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  
 

SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    Moment of Americana. Smoke and Noise of another kind.

© SIGforum 2024