Looking West. Two lane Highway 70 near Quincy, CA is directly above this tunnel.
Looking East. The Union Pacific track on the right continues up the Feather River Canyon and goes over Beckwourth Pass. The track on the left heads north to Bieber, a major junction between the Great Northern and Western Pacific railroads for north-south traffic, now owned by BNSF Railway.
If you ever want to go on a train watching vacation the Quincy area is the place to go. Just east of Quincy is the one-mile-long Williams Loop, where if you’re lucky you might see a freight train passing over/under itself. I was lucky enough to haul logs in the canyon for a couple of summers. It sure was fun. It’s kind of lucky I didn’t run off the road while watching the trains! The three above pics, sent in by Elmo, the Log Truck Driver.
Another Phil sent in.
Something is wrong, no graffiti.
14 thoughts on “Old Train Thursday. Readers Contribution Day”
Mach 10 on the ground??? You are out of your bleeding mind! Hitting a bird would be a catastrophic event, and knowing that power scales as the cube of speed you are talking about ~3,000x the power of the TGV…
The only way that would work was in a vacuum tube, but that introduces a whole new set of design problems and another 10x increase in cost per mile…
Likely I have posted this here before, but what the heck, there are always new folks coming on board. The passing country side reminds me of growing up in the Gold Rush country as a young lad.
Mach 10? Hit a mosquito and you’re dead…
One of the reasons we don’t have HS rail is because it’s so expensive to build:
1) NIMBY
2) Enviroweenies
3) Lawsuits
4) Regulation
5) Ticket costs
6) Ridership
A lot of thought has been put into HS Rail planning, the Poly-tic-ans only glean the good parts out of reports and ignore the bad ones. Just ask Californians…
Shay geared locomotive, Cass Scenic Railroad, West Virginia. The Official State Steam Locomotive, so named in 2004 as it approached it’s 100th birthday.
Shays were the most popular locomotive for logging as they were kind of all-wheel drive and handled steep grades and tight turns better than almost any other locomotive. Their boiler was unique in that it was offset to the port side.
There are lots of great YouTube videos of the Cass Scenic Railroad and their Shays in action.
Elmo: Thank you. I’ll go Youtubing!
Who made the first graphic? They obviously haven’t a clue about physics. Mach 10 would require that the entire surface of the train be covered in ceramic tiles like the space shuttle. The SR-71 flew at Mach 3.4 where the atmosphere is very thin and it had to be made of titanium and every part of it had to be designed to dissipate heat.
Also, where is this Mach 10 train going to run? The sonic boom would be destructive as hell.
Lastly, French trains belong to the SNCF (Societe National des Chemin de Fers, Chemin de Fers= Road of Iron) not the SNFC.
Mach 10 on the ground??? You are out of your bleeding mind! Hitting a bird would be a catastrophic event, and knowing that power scales as the cube of speed you are talking about ~3,000x the power of the TGV…
The only way that would work was in a vacuum tube, but that introduces a whole new set of design problems and another 10x increase in cost per mile…
Likely I have posted this here before, but what the heck, there are always new folks coming on board. The passing country side reminds me of growing up in the Gold Rush country as a young lad.
https://vimeo.com/240878623
Mach 10? Hit a mosquito and you’re dead…
One of the reasons we don’t have HS rail is because it’s so expensive to build:
1) NIMBY
2) Enviroweenies
3) Lawsuits
4) Regulation
5) Ticket costs
6) Ridership
A lot of thought has been put into HS Rail planning, the Poly-tic-ans only glean the good parts out of reports and ignore the bad ones. Just ask Californians…
Some beautiful rolling stock there, CederQ. Why didn’t you get put in a picture of the Latah Creek railroad bridge in Spokane? You know it’s there…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bridge_(Latah_Creek)
Just say liberal idiots Igor. Many dandy’s there Cederq.
Can identify the loco in Phil’s video?
I meant to type “can anyone identify”!
Shay loco on the Cass Scenic RR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0cgVeqv86w
RHT447: Thank you!
Shay geared locomotive, Cass Scenic Railroad, West Virginia. The Official State Steam Locomotive, so named in 2004 as it approached it’s 100th birthday.
Shays were the most popular locomotive for logging as they were kind of all-wheel drive and handled steep grades and tight turns better than almost any other locomotive. Their boiler was unique in that it was offset to the port side.
There are lots of great YouTube videos of the Cass Scenic Railroad and their Shays in action.
Elmo: Thank you. I’ll go Youtubing!
Who made the first graphic? They obviously haven’t a clue about physics. Mach 10 would require that the entire surface of the train be covered in ceramic tiles like the space shuttle. The SR-71 flew at Mach 3.4 where the atmosphere is very thin and it had to be made of titanium and every part of it had to be designed to dissipate heat.
Also, where is this Mach 10 train going to run? The sonic boom would be destructive as hell.
Lastly, French trains belong to the SNCF (Societe National des Chemin de Fers, Chemin de Fers= Road of Iron) not the SNFC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZX9T0kWb4Y&t=0s
Japan’s maglev…is fast
The Airstream Train must be the one Biden wants to build across the Pacific Ocean
California’s bullet train: 0 MPH / Non-existent / 128 billion dollars spent