The show “Bone yards” is doing a show on scrapping and recycling trains and locomotives Thursday night at 9:00pm EST. on The History Channel.(pass it along…)
that is going to be interesting to watch. i would like to see how they recycle a train [:-^]
The commercial showed a big hydraulic “pincher” cutting a switcher in half.[:O]
I’m gonna need a box of tissiues…
Should be a good show, based on the teaser. hey, maybe it’ll inspire a model of a train scrapping yard. [;)]
Anyone seen those ads on TV about “America’s freight railroads”? Interesting and good ads, but who/why are they aiming for as a broad target audience? Seems like a pretty broad image campaign.
Amtrak should do some ads like that on the virtues of passenger rail.
Somewhat along those lines… here’s a page about the demise of Montour #70. This was one of the last surviving Montour diesels…and now it’s been cut up. Here’s the link: http://montourrr.com/MRR70.htm.
Thanks for the heads-up; it should be really interesting. Do railroads provide locomotive recycling bins?
In “The Twilight of Steam Locomotives” Ron Ziel documents the scrapping of a CB&Q 4-8-4 in 1962. It’s fascinating, but hard to read as well.
cough Well, I’m going to watch it, but I have a feeling that I won’t like what I’ll see. [B)]
-Brandon
Yep! Diesel AND steam![:-^]
what time would that be in Pacific time? or does it only air in the USA? what channel is it and what day as well?
Look up The History Channel. It’s a different # channel depending on your cable or satellite service. I don’t know if you get that up there. It’s this Thursday night at 9:00pm Eastern time, 8:00pm central. Don’t know when it would show Pacific time.
hmm ok. where i am it is currently channel 44. i think i will browse the TV listings to find it. shouldn’t be too hard to find.
I belive it would be around 6PM Pacific Standard Time.
I did a report on a History Channel show called “Modern Marvels: Freight Trains” for school.
I got a 101%
I am in Portland, OR and our local listings show it as being aired at 9:00 pm PDT
It also lists Wild West Tech - Train Tech at 8:00 am PDT Saturday the 30th, this might be a good show also, check your local listings to verify what time it will be on in your area.
Doug
Hello Everyone:
Here are some links to the History Channel that will help locate information for tonight’s 9:00 PM EDT episode. Look around the site for other time zones and air dates.
Main History Channel link: http://www.history.com/
Main Boneyard link: http://www.history.com/minisites/boneyard
Boneyard Railroad Episode link: http://www.history.com/minisites/boneyard
Hope this helps everyone!
I’m not going to be able to watch it but it really would be a case of morbid interest for me. My grandfather once said that he could never work in the scrap business (especially since he worked for most of his life building trains) and I totally agree.
I understand that not every engine can be saved of course, economics and practical reasons dictate that very simply, but the loss of history to me would be painful. I grew up respecting each engine as an individual machine. So a single preserved Alco RS2 doesn’t begin to cover the class of locomotive as a whole, but that kind of history can’t be kept, except in the minds of everyone who remembers it.
Cheers!
~METRO
Bump. It’s tonight, and this should be on page 1 for the evening.
Personally, I’m hoping they show some “recycling,” like turning engines into slugs, or revenue cars into MOW equipment.
Coming on now. They said they are going to show how things like ties and rails and such get recycled.
Pretty good show! I like the fact that they concentrated a lot on rebuilding and restoring. It was nice to see the old luxury passenger cars brought back to life.