This and the six pictures below sent in by GuardDuck. Snowy Trains meet at Cascade Locks.
Gloomy Sky over Umatilla
Snowy day in the Columbia Gorge between Cascade Locks and Hood River.
Snowy day out of Hermiston
Sunrise between Boardman and Heppner.
Filthy Engine just came off of six months duty as a pusher/helper on the mountains between Eugene and Klamath Falls.
Icicles hanging off of my engine in Portland.
Grapeland, Texas
16 thoughts on “Old Train Thursday.”
That scale with the baggage on it reminds me of a story I saw on TV about an old depot that’s been restored to its original condition, complete with equipment and furniture inside that take you back in time. I think I remember that it had a ladie’s entrance and side to the depot. It was out west somewhere, and they did a beautiful job restoring it. I wish I could remember the details.
And thanks for the pictures, GuardDuck. Keep ’em coming!
Agree. Appreciate the guard duck photos. A world most of us never get to see.
Speaking of trains, did you see the news that there’s need another derailment on the tehachapie (sp) pass this week.
Didn’t take too much time, to complete my O gauge toy train table.
Needed a little redesign before completion. Just don’t have the room for a permanent layout (sneef).
Track will go on a removable sheet. Stored vertically, when not running. I just might be able to get away with a permanent N gauge layout. Though I have a number of Zero Halliburton aluminum suitcases. That I’m going to build N ga. railroads inside 🙂
HO was the smallest I ever wanted to go. The scenicing is easier,,,
I lived for a time in Parkrose in NE Portland, about thirty feet from the Union Pacific main line up the Columbia Gorge. They were usually barrelling full speed when they came by my place, and the whole house shook from it. I got so I’d sleep right through it, but friends visiting would panic.
The filthy helper engine switches in and out at Oakridge at the bottom, and Fields at the top near Crescent Lake. It’s a hellacious climb, winding back and forth up the Cascade crest, with, I think I recall, eleven tunnels along the way.
I lived in Spokane for a few years and lived down in Hangman’s Valley, just West of downtown, you go over it when heading West on I-90 and BN would pull out on Sunday morning heading South towards the Palouse up a steep grade with four engines in front and three or four engines pushing as it was a long freight and at 2am it would rattle the house and you thought Lucifer was announcing his ascendance to the Kingdom…
Yeah, those guys working the mountain there are required to carry scba gear with them in case the train stalls out in a tunnel.
Well I’m just gonna repeat myself. I love these pictorials you put together.
The UP train pics are great. I get to go work on the Southern Appalachian Trail Museum this weekend….My buddy says it’ll be cold and dirty, but it’ll be interesting.
RAIL Museum……darn spell check
It’s spelled Umatilla, not Umitilla, CederQ. Sorry for being so pedantic.
I currently live about 300 feet (100 meters) away from the BNSF main line through Spokane, and even though it’s flat here in the Valley, those unit trains with the “Distributed Power” (usually coal or grain headed West) come through here every 5 minutes. I don’t even notice them any more with the windows closed, but in the spring and the fall they can drown out the TV at night…
Your right, got changed, Thanks Grammar Nazi Igor….
So GuardDuck got to live out all our boyhood dreams, good onya.
ps Guard your comrades roll by near me to the tune of about 1 an hour, both directions. I love it, sleep right through it.
Years ago on CBS Sunday morning which I never missed till that pinko commie bitch took over there was a segment of a photographer that only did night shots, really beautiful. Cederq I went looking for it but alas could not find it.
That scale with the baggage on it reminds me of a story I saw on TV about an old depot that’s been restored to its original condition, complete with equipment and furniture inside that take you back in time. I think I remember that it had a ladie’s entrance and side to the depot. It was out west somewhere, and they did a beautiful job restoring it. I wish I could remember the details.
And thanks for the pictures, GuardDuck. Keep ’em coming!
Agree. Appreciate the guard duck photos. A world most of us never get to see.
Speaking of trains, did you see the news that there’s need another derailment on the tehachapie (sp) pass this week.
Didn’t take too much time, to complete my O gauge toy train table.
https://i.postimg.cc/rFXLkn45/20230121-142848.jpg
Needed a little redesign before completion. Just don’t have the room for a permanent layout (sneef).
Track will go on a removable sheet. Stored vertically, when not running. I just might be able to get away with a permanent N gauge layout. Though I have a number of Zero Halliburton aluminum suitcases. That I’m going to build N ga. railroads inside 🙂
HO was the smallest I ever wanted to go. The scenicing is easier,,,
I lived for a time in Parkrose in NE Portland, about thirty feet from the Union Pacific main line up the Columbia Gorge. They were usually barrelling full speed when they came by my place, and the whole house shook from it. I got so I’d sleep right through it, but friends visiting would panic.
The filthy helper engine switches in and out at Oakridge at the bottom, and Fields at the top near Crescent Lake. It’s a hellacious climb, winding back and forth up the Cascade crest, with, I think I recall, eleven tunnels along the way.
I lived in Spokane for a few years and lived down in Hangman’s Valley, just West of downtown, you go over it when heading West on I-90 and BN would pull out on Sunday morning heading South towards the Palouse up a steep grade with four engines in front and three or four engines pushing as it was a long freight and at 2am it would rattle the house and you thought Lucifer was announcing his ascendance to the Kingdom…
Yeah, those guys working the mountain there are required to carry scba gear with them in case the train stalls out in a tunnel.
Well I’m just gonna repeat myself. I love these pictorials you put together.
The UP train pics are great. I get to go work on the Southern Appalachian Trail Museum this weekend….My buddy says it’ll be cold and dirty, but it’ll be interesting.
RAIL Museum……darn spell check
It’s spelled Umatilla, not Umitilla, CederQ. Sorry for being so pedantic.
I currently live about 300 feet (100 meters) away from the BNSF main line through Spokane, and even though it’s flat here in the Valley, those unit trains with the “Distributed Power” (usually coal or grain headed West) come through here every 5 minutes. I don’t even notice them any more with the windows closed, but in the spring and the fall they can drown out the TV at night…
Your right, got changed, Thanks Grammar Nazi Igor….
So GuardDuck got to live out all our boyhood dreams, good onya.
ps Guard your comrades roll by near me to the tune of about 1 an hour, both directions. I love it, sleep right through it.
Years ago on CBS Sunday morning which I never missed till that pinko commie bitch took over there was a segment of a photographer that only did night shots, really beautiful. Cederq I went looking for it but alas could not find it.
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