How Many Locomotives Have You Been On?

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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This questions excludes railroad employees cause for you guys, the list would go on and on and on. Also not included is rolling stock at a museum either. It has to be actual railroad locomotives on a real railroad in operation and if you can give a location.
Here goes mine:

Countless BNSF locomotives at Railfair in LaCrosse, WI
BNSF 143 - Lacrosse, WI
Countless CPR SD90Macs and AC4400CW’s at Railfait in LaCrosse, WI
WC 700 - Manitowoc, WI
WC 711 - Manitowoc, WI
WC 724 - Manitowoc, WI
WC 4004 - Manitowoc, WI
WC 4159 - Manitowoc, WI
WC 3009 - Manitowoc, WI
WC 3023 - Manitowoc, WI
WC 3025 - Neenah to Manitowoc, WI - Cab Ride
WC 2003 - Manitowoc to Neenah, WI - " "
WC 2253 - Neenah to Manitowoc, WI - " "
WC 3002 - Manitowoc to Neenah, WI - " "
WC 3026 - Manitowoc, WI and Fond du Lac, WI
WC 7511 - Fond du Lac, WI
WC 7525 - Fond du Lac, WI
WC 7638 - Fond du Lac, WI
MILW 261!! - Green Bay, WI - Running and Excursion
CN 9460 - Manitowoc, WI

I think that is it for now, I think I can dig up the numbers for the CPR and BNSF in Lacrosse as well as a couple of CSX’s I have been on before.

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0 [:(]

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About 20, in the last week or so…

LC

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Too many to count. After working on and hostling them for two years I quit counting

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2 -

and don’t ask me what they were.

One just sitting and one that just thrilled the daylights out of me!

Mook

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Cedar Rapids & Iowa City SW1400 on a ballast train on the former MILW
Ottumwa line at Walford, Iowa.

St. Croix Valley GP7 at Hinckley, MN on the former NP Duluth-Twin Cities
line.

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P&W U23B - Naugatuck Railroad
B&M GP9 - Naugatuck Railroad
NH RS-3 - Naugatuck Railroad
E8A - Danbury Railway Museum
CDOT GP40-2H - Palinville, CT
Conrail B23-7 - Old Saybrook, CT

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[tup] How about a lift, Buddy?

Wayne

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a gp 38-2, a dash 9, me and matt a dash 8 and a c40-8.cant give location but it was fun.
stay safe
Joe

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One cab ride…B&M from West Cambridge to North Station (Boston) over 30 years ago.
Two or three dozen at museums and railfairs.

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Both Soo Line (now WC) and C&NW were in town while I was growing up.

I used to go up to the C&NW yard and ride the local when it was switching. I rode GP20 #4402, 4404, 4408 and many other Geeps. I also once rode in a SOO F-unit when I was about 10, but I don’t remember the number. Then they tore up the CNW in 1982 and that was the end of that.

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UP
GP9# 323(first cab ride)[:)].
GP9# 305
U 28C
SP
Switcher #1174
SW1500 #2459
SW1500#2499
U28C
SD 45#9011
FP7#6449
ATSF
several S2s & S4s
SeveralCF7 s
severalGP35s
SD 40#5000
F7#307
Spirit of Washington dinner train
F7
Amtrak
SDP40F#500
SDP40F#507
F40PH
P32-8W#507
BC Rail
RDC
These were all cab rides[8D].

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Many,many moons ago;A C&O 2-6-6-6,several GP-7s,GP-9s,a Sperry Rail car.
And yes, before anyone asks about the 2-6-6-6,I am about that old.

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!st. A BN SD40-2 @ South Omaha on an East Bound Coal load for C.B. Iowa.
2nd. A FEVR NW2 @ Fremont,Neb.
3rd. A BNSF Cream & Green SD70MAC on an Empty Coal train @ Council Bluffs ,Iowa.
4th. A BN SD40-2 on an east bound freight @ Crawford,Neb.
END OF LIST.

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Whos been in an AC6000CW? How do they run?

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None [:(]

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Working - 4 - 1. C&O Geep. Young and only got a tour.
2. Two different Amtrak engines at the train show in Syracuse
3. CNY NHRS E-8 (not running at the time), also at Syracuse
None “over the road”, though.

Static - quite a few.

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My first cab visit was in an Alco PA, in Erie, Pa., 1948. I think it was the Freedom Train, but it could have been just an open house at the GE plant. Ten years later I was in the cab of NKP 2-8-4 777 in Buffalo. In 1959, in Sarnia, Ont., I spent about a half hour riding on a CNR 0-8-0 working the yard. Living near Jamestown, NY in the 1950’s I often visited Erie E-8s and GP-7s. Also rode around the yard in the EMD switcher there (SW-?) A fantrip got me into the cab of Southern 4501 in Winchester, VA , 1975. And in 1985, while visiting the yard in Norfolk, I came across N&W 611, in steam, and got a short ride down the track. And now, almost 20 years later, it’s time to look into the new generation of diesels.

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Had a cab ride in a SD40-2, GP40-3, and a Alco C424

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Several - the highlight was a cab ride in the 2nd unit (SD40-2) on a CPR westbound coal train over the Rogers Pass in BC - From Golden to Revelstoke through the Mt Mcdonald tunnel , also up the grade from Rogers to Glacier & back on a 6 loco pusher set also SD40-2’s through the Connaught tunnel on the CPR mainline .