Share you train stories with me. I’ll be happy to here them.
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January 2001 colder than ---------.A csx crew was stuck outside the defiance yard because the train ahead of them had frozen brakes.After I photographed their train they asked if their were any restaurants nearby.I went and got them breakfast from mcd’s and I got to sit in a brand new ge-9 locomotive.even with another train passing those cabs are quiet.it was a good reward on that cold day.
stay safe
joe
OK heres a good one…
it’s 110 degrees outside… it was Saturday or sunday… i was scedualed to run the 3 car train… (1 locomotive, 3 cars) howerevr… maintenace called for them… so i got the 8 car train…
any problems? yes… the eight car train, comprized of… “Back-in-the-day” cars… (in montreal we call those the Dreaded 800 cars… because there numbered from 801-830. as you would imagine there are NO AIRCO in these cars… you can open all the windows… nothing comes in. it must have been 130, 140 in those bloody things… all the passengers qwere cramped in the first car… its the new control cat… with airco and all… but the other conductor “shot gunned” it before me… so i’m all alone in the 800 series cars, 140 degrees no air movement, sweat pourring down, running at 15 mph (track broke, current stopped, all signals red) i thought i was GONNA die of heat.
that was littelry not a fun day to go to work!
i think of a better storie i can tell you… oh and the br4eak in the ttack was so small… but enough tro disturb the signal current…!
OK here goes another one…
this one not a story… it be an urban legend.
The railroad used to run a single track, from Dorion ( a town nerby) to Ottawa the nations capitol. it would go through Dorion,Vaudreuil, Hudson, Rigaud, Vankleek Hill, a few other stops, then to Ottawa… eventually the sad reality kicked in and most of that track is gone. however… i didn’t go quietly… it had its share of accidents.
Yes the train tracks still pass through my town… (Hudson) but go as far as rigaud… after that all there is is dirt, rocks, and not much else. where the tracks were is still highly visible. I gave jen a map… i’ll find the url later.
anyways… Hudson… used to be three tracks the went through… now theres only one… and 2 trains a day. jsut after the station is a Turn, a very blind turn called “Blind-mans-curve” you can’t see around it… and when your comming out of the curve… theres a signal (non operational) but was at the time
this Story now goes back to the day of steam.
Train 713, it stopped at hudson at 7:13. now the story varied here… the signal was displaying bad asspect some say… or the other version was that somehting was on the track but the signal was still green… some say the conductor was told that somehting was ahead of him and to take it slow but never delivered the message to the engineer. anyways… one thing that remains a constant… ONe of the train crew (guy A) new the upcomming signal was SUPPOSED to display red or green, but to be aware of upcomming danger… and was supposed to tell guy B… but that never happened, he forogt… mingled…had a heart attack… those are the various stories… So The train started up… gettting up to 60MPH going into the curve… green signal hit the merging 3rd track into the second one… derailed completely… Every last train car burned up, because back in those days they were made of wood, and there were very few survivors. .
after blind mans curve… there
When I was a kid I lived 2 feet away from the tracks.
One of my most favorite place to be was on a bridge in a golf course.
The golf course name was Columbia and the RR was the Soo.
The bridge was located over the double main line out of the Shorham yard.
I don’t think you could get a double stack train under the bridge it was that close. Because the trains going east were climbing grade the engines were pumping smoke out like no tomorrow. F-units and Alcos, when the engines went under the bridge the smoke would come up through the gaps in the board bridge deck.
We could feel the blast from the exhaust too. It was great!
And the noise, wow!!
I bet in the years that I and my friends spent on or in the girders under that bridge we inhaled tons of smoke. it’s a wonder after 50 years were still alive!
Sooblue
This happen when I worked on the C&O/Chessie…
We had just finish switching a mine and was stopped at the junction signal waiting for a eastbound before we could get a signal to enter the Big Sandy Sub…Well,the caboose was next to the engine as we had to pick up the rest of our train and head back toward Russel…The rear brakeman spots some black berries and swings off the hack to pick some, I saw him get off and swing right back on…I could not understand why has he dearly love black berry cobbler and has pick black berries before.Well I just had to find out what was going on as I knew we still had about 25 more minutes to wait…Upon asking why he changed his mind about the berries,he just points and said look thar,so I did…That was the biggest timber rattler I ever saw all coil up and looking mean.Up on closer look I notice the dang thing was not moving or buzzing and wait one here rattlers don’t coil like that! I look closer and seen the snake was not a live snake… The conductor had killed a rattle snake in his yard and put the skin on a bicycle inter tube and had snuck off the hack and placed the “snake” where the rear brakeman was bound to see it…I waltzes over and pick up the “snake” and told him to pick his berries while I hold the “snake”…The conductor slips up behind me and pinches me,I threw the “snake” in the air and it lands next to the rear brakeman,he yells,runs and leaps toward the caboose cussing me with every step he took,The engineer was on the ground by this time watching all of this and laughing his head off.,the conductors looses it and starts laughing…I turn to the conductor and all he said with a shortness of breath from laughing so hard Larry ,he says,you should have seen your face when you thought that snake bit you…[:0] Yes the rear brakeman got his berries and we paid that conductor back in spades 3 or 4 weeks later…[}:)]
There once was a guy named Joe who worked for the Railroad as a
conductor. One day, Joe was walking through the train, en route,
collecting tickets from the passengers. He comes to a woman in car
12, booth 3 and asked her for her ticket:
“Excuse me ma’am, do have your ticket?”
“Oh, I am soooo sorry, I dropped it out the window by accident,” she
replied.
“Sorry, ma’am can’t have any passengers without tickets.” He grabbed
her by the scruff of the neck and THREW her out of the train. Well,
she landed on the tracks and was run over by the train. Naturally,
the conductor was arrested and thrown in jail. He was convicted of
murder before a jury of his peers, and sentenced to death by
electrocution.
The day of his execution came, and he was asked what he would like
for his last meal. “A banana”, he replied. They gave it to him, he
ate it, received his last rites, and was escorted to the chair. The
executioner strapped him in, hooked everything up and threw the BIG
switch once, and NOTHING HAPPENED. So, he did it again, and NOTHING
HAPPENED. Well, by law the conductor was legally dead, so they had to
release him.
Oddly enough, Joe got a job on another railroad, as a conductor! One
day, he was gathering tickets, and came to a booth with a little boy.
“Young man, do you have your ticket?”, asked the conductor.
“Aaa, I’m sorry, I ate it by mithtake…”, said the little boy.
And… the same thing happened. The boy was thrown off the train and
killed. The guy was arrested, sentenced to death by electrocution. On
his last day, the death row guard asked him what he would like for
his meal. He asked for banana again. He ate it, and a priest gave him
last rites.
He was escorted to the death chamber. This time, though, they were
smart. They washed his hands to get
groan![V]
zardoz1, OOOHHHH ! OWWWW! AAAARRGGGGHHHH! Good one.
thankew, thankew
good one!!!
joe
Oh brother
Share you train stories with me. I’ll be happy to here them.
[:)][:p][;)][8)][^][:D][8D]
January 2001 colder than ---------.A csx crew was stuck outside the defiance yard because the train ahead of them had frozen brakes.After I photographed their train they asked if their were any restaurants nearby.I went and got them breakfast from mcd’s and I got to sit in a brand new ge-9 locomotive.even with another train passing those cabs are quiet.it was a good reward on that cold day.
stay safe
joe
OK heres a good one…
it’s 110 degrees outside… it was Saturday or sunday… i was scedualed to run the 3 car train… (1 locomotive, 3 cars) howerevr… maintenace called for them… so i got the 8 car train…
any problems? yes… the eight car train, comprized of… “Back-in-the-day” cars… (in montreal we call those the Dreaded 800 cars… because there numbered from 801-830. as you would imagine there are NO AIRCO in these cars… you can open all the windows… nothing comes in. it must have been 130, 140 in those bloody things… all the passengers qwere cramped in the first car… its the new control cat… with airco and all… but the other conductor “shot gunned” it before me… so i’m all alone in the 800 series cars, 140 degrees no air movement, sweat pourring down, running at 15 mph (track broke, current stopped, all signals red) i thought i was GONNA die of heat.
that was littelry not a fun day to go to work!
i think of a better storie i can tell you… oh and the br4eak in the ttack was so small… but enough tro disturb the signal current…!
OK here goes another one…
this one not a story… it be an urban legend.
The railroad used to run a single track, from Dorion ( a town nerby) to Ottawa the nations capitol. it would go through Dorion,Vaudreuil, Hudson, Rigaud, Vankleek Hill, a few other stops, then to Ottawa… eventually the sad reality kicked in and most of that track is gone. however… i didn’t go quietly… it had its share of accidents.
Yes the train tracks still pass through my town… (Hudson) but go as far as rigaud… after that all there is is dirt, rocks, and not much else. where the tracks were is still highly visible. I gave jen a map… i’ll find the url later.
anyways… Hudson… used to be three tracks the went through… now theres only one… and 2 trains a day. jsut after the station is a Turn, a very blind turn called “Blind-mans-curve” you can’t see around it… and when your comming out of the curve… theres a signal (non operational) but was at the time
this Story now goes back to the day of steam.
Train 713, it stopped at hudson at 7:13. now the story varied here… the signal was displaying bad asspect some say… or the other version was that somehting was on the track but the signal was still green… some say the conductor was told that somehting was ahead of him and to take it slow but never delivered the message to the engineer. anyways… one thing that remains a constant… ONe of the train crew (guy A) new the upcomming signal was SUPPOSED to display red or green, but to be aware of upcomming danger… and was supposed to tell guy B… but that never happened, he forogt… mingled…had a heart attack… those are the various stories… So The train started up… gettting up to 60MPH going into the curve… green signal hit the merging 3rd track into the second one… derailed completely… Every last train car burned up, because back in those days they were made of wood, and there were very few survivors. .
after blind mans curve… there
When I was a kid I lived 2 feet away from the tracks.
One of my most favorite place to be was on a bridge in a golf course.
The golf course name was Columbia and the RR was the Soo.
The bridge was located over the double main line out of the Shorham yard.
I don’t think you could get a double stack train under the bridge it was that close. Because the trains going east were climbing grade the engines were pumping smoke out like no tomorrow. F-units and Alcos, when the engines went under the bridge the smoke would come up through the gaps in the board bridge deck.
We could feel the blast from the exhaust too. It was great!
And the noise, wow!!
I bet in the years that I and my friends spent on or in the girders under that bridge we inhaled tons of smoke. it’s a wonder after 50 years were still alive!
Sooblue
This happen when I worked on the C&O/Chessie…
We had just finish switching a mine and was stopped at the junction signal waiting for a eastbound before we could get a signal to enter the Big Sandy Sub…Well,the caboose was next to the engine as we had to pick up the rest of our train and head back toward Russel…The rear brakeman spots some black berries and swings off the hack to pick some, I saw him get off and swing right back on…I could not understand why has he dearly love black berry cobbler and has pick black berries before.Well I just had to find out what was going on as I knew we still had about 25 more minutes to wait…Upon asking why he changed his mind about the berries,he just points and said look thar,so I did…That was the biggest timber rattler I ever saw all coil up and looking mean.Up on closer look I notice the dang thing was not moving or buzzing and wait one here rattlers don’t coil like that! I look closer and seen the snake was not a live snake… The conductor had killed a rattle snake in his yard and put the skin on a bicycle inter tube and had snuck off the hack and placed the “snake” where the rear brakeman was bound to see it…I waltzes over and pick up the “snake” and told him to pick his berries while I hold the “snake”…The conductor slips up behind me and pinches me,I threw the “snake” in the air and it lands next to the rear brakeman,he yells,runs and leaps toward the caboose cussing me with every step he took,The engineer was on the ground by this time watching all of this and laughing his head off.,the conductors looses it and starts laughing…I turn to the conductor and all he said with a shortness of breath from laughing so hard Larry ,he says,you should have seen your face when you thought that snake bit you…[:0] Yes the rear brakeman got his berries and we paid that conductor back in spades 3 or 4 weeks later…[}:)]
There once was a guy named Joe who worked for the Railroad as a
conductor. One day, Joe was walking through the train, en route,
collecting tickets from the passengers. He comes to a woman in car
12, booth 3 and asked her for her ticket:
“Excuse me ma’am, do have your ticket?”
“Oh, I am soooo sorry, I dropped it out the window by accident,” she
replied.
“Sorry, ma’am can’t have any passengers without tickets.” He grabbed
her by the scruff of the neck and THREW her out of the train. Well,
she landed on the tracks and was run over by the train. Naturally,
the conductor was arrested and thrown in jail. He was convicted of
murder before a jury of his peers, and sentenced to death by
electrocution.
The day of his execution came, and he was asked what he would like
for his last meal. “A banana”, he replied. They gave it to him, he
ate it, received his last rites, and was escorted to the chair. The
executioner strapped him in, hooked everything up and threw the BIG
switch once, and NOTHING HAPPENED. So, he did it again, and NOTHING
HAPPENED. Well, by law the conductor was legally dead, so they had to
release him.
Oddly enough, Joe got a job on another railroad, as a conductor! One
day, he was gathering tickets, and came to a booth with a little boy.
“Young man, do you have your ticket?”, asked the conductor.
“Aaa, I’m sorry, I ate it by mithtake…”, said the little boy.
And… the same thing happened. The boy was thrown off the train and
killed. The guy was arrested, sentenced to death by electrocution. On
his last day, the death row guard asked him what he would like for
his meal. He asked for banana again. He ate it, and a priest gave him
last rites.
He was escorted to the death chamber. This time, though, they were
smart. They washed his hands to get
groan![V]