Well Now That I have shared my coolest dream I was just wondering if anyone has any dreams come true like getting to ride in a cab car of an amtrak or on any other type of train.
i had a dream once that i was called for duty… i woke up about an hour later…and had to call in to find out if i was called or not… turns out…i wasnt… so i went back to sleep…
csx engineer
I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven when I got a cab ride but then I reached my dream pinnacle when a hogger friend of mine let me take the controls on his GP20. We had 17 cars of mixed freight and I “ran” the road for about 17 miles. Thrill of a lifetime!
I usually have dreams in which some great train is approaching and I’m out of film, or the camera is jammed or I don’t take the lens cap off, or…
I sure have had RR dreams come true! Just the other week, I got accepted into the AMDG conductor school in Cincinnati! As long as all goes well, I’ll be working for CSX out of Buffalo NY this fall! [:)]
When I was a young buff in high school I dreamed of working for a railroad. After a stint in college I did that from 1966 to 2003.
Well, Im 13 and work in locomotive cabs so i guess im really lucky!
I had a dream that I shared a compartment on the Sunset Limited with Emily Perkins. Normally I’m a little sory to reach the end of a train trip but in this case I could justify pulling the emergency cord!
You BET I had one come true !!!
I RETIRED…
Virlon
Save your ticket… the P.E. will rise again.
it wasnt a dream at the time, but i climbed up into an E unit on the agawa canyon tour train in canada. the engineer had me sit in his seat and then eventually had me go into the engine compartment and he revved the engine. now they dont use those E units anymore…
Getting to take the controls and drive a trains and it came true, and im only 16!!!
getting to see the 611 run??? yeah thats a dream come true.I’m just dreaming she’ll run again in my lifetime.
stay safe
Joe
Yes to railfan along the UPRR on the same route that they moved my companys traffic on. [:o)][:p]
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Originally posted by railfan619
#611 was something special, and I never saw her in person. If she’s ever under steam again, you can bet that I’m road-tripping for that!
Pretty much here too, any of you heard of the high Bridge in St. Croix? I went over that thing twice, and ive taken the controls of many SD45’s and a SD40-3 also. Very fun, and challenging. And rides are still just as good as running [:D]
Alec
When I was a youngster I dreamt I would like to run streetcars, subway trains, and railroad trains. When I was a teenager, a motorman on The Bronx’s Bailey Avenue Line, one car every 45 minutes on the line, but double track and smooth, let me run the car and gave good instructions. Then for years I operated at the trolley museum run by the Branford Electric Ry. Assoc. in East Haven and Branford, CT. Car TARS 629 there was similar to the car I ran on Bailey Avenue. On an ERA fan trip the motor instructor gave me the controls on the Pelham Bay Line from Hunts Pont Avenue to Elberts Lane, the former in the subway and the latter on the el structure after about three other stations. The equipment was the old standard IRT “Low-V” 1916 era stuff, a five car train, and I did make perfect stops at all the 6-Cars station markers at each station. And then when doing my research while at MIT after a summer at EMD I ran a B&M GP-7 on the Portsmouth - Sommerville freight. Then the 4-8-0- at the Capitol Park Engine Sheds in Praetoria, South Africa from the storage track to the sand and coal loading points. All dreams realised. Reading TRAINS i desperately wanted to ride the San Juan from Almosa to Durango and the Silverton mixed. Got there after the main narrow gauge line was freight only but Maurey Kleibolt’s fan trips had me covering the narrow gauge three times. 1960, 1961, and 1962. Another dream realized. Again a Trains magazine had me dreaming about riding the Swiss narrow gauge, and I did that and had cab rides (actually front platforms of passenger mu’s that were also the power for the mixed trains I rode.), 1960. I wanted to see British steam before it quit and I did, 1962. After all, Britain was the birthplace of the steam locomotive. I dreamt about riding the Blue Train and I did in South Africa, 1984. Never been to Alaska to ride the Alaska RR or the White Pass and Yukon. Saw the London and Port Stanley many times from the windows of the Empire State Express, but never got to ride it. On
lucky you…i got 31 years … 9 months… 2 weeks… 4 days… 3 hours… 47 mins…and 50…49…48…47…46…you get the point…lol
csx engineer
csxengineer98. Think you got it bad now? Wait until you can sit in the cab blindfolded and still know exactly where you are on any run you make just from the seat of the pants. And then still have 24 years…9months…4…etc…lol. Well, at least it is honest work.
It is just soooo much better to be a rail fan and maybe work in a non operating job. I’ve ridden the head end of both freight and pre-Amtrak passenger, the latter at 100 mph, and also had many trips in office cars. Furthermore, I have also gotten to go into railroad facilities where now you would need authority from somebody close to God to get in. I don’t think I ever dreamed about the stuff, but it was cool.
Jay
Congratulations. Once you get through school and get to the OJT, get out and get some carharts a size or so too big. You’ll need 'em to fit your long underwear, jeans and another layer or two under them. It is COLD pulling pins at Frontier Yard. I speak from experience. Get some GOOD boots and gloves too. RR will take care of thje rest…
LC
Can’t you take a short break and warm the toes and fingers on the switch heaters in Frontier that have to be turned on about 6 months out of the year?[:-^][:-^]