Because I’m the Old Timer, I’ve been on the following steam wheel arrangements:
0-4-0, 0-4-0T, 0-6-0, 0-8-0, 0-8-0T, 2-6-0, 2-8-0, 2-10-0, 2-8-2, 2-8-4, 2-10-4, 4-6-0, 4-8-0, 4-6-2, 4-8-2, 4-8-4, 2-6-6-2, 2-6-6-4, 2-6-6-6, 2-8-8-2.
Ran some of them, fired some of them, enjoyed every d**n one of them.
Electrics: VGN EL3s, Amtrak GG1s, both over the road.
Ran a few diesels, too, but nothing very new. When I was very young I was allowed to crank up a set of Alco DL109s . . . Rode D&H PA 19 Montreal to Albany. Rode D&H Sharks from Binghamton to Sayre.
Loads of hoots.
Oh, and how could I forget the Heisler and Shays?
Can’t hold a candle to that !!!
Randy
You really are an old head…
LC
CPRail GP 38-2’s. 5 or 6 of them, don’t have all the numbers, but I know 3004, 3007, and 3039 for sure. This was back in the late 80’s when they were running the lumber out of the O.K. Falls Weyerhauser spur at the end of the Princeton Subdivision. Cab rides they were, too, along Skaha Lake. I remember the engineer was Nick Marra and the brakeman was nicknamed Fat Boy. Those guys were sure tolerant of a keen young railnut.
Sorry for all the details here, but those were fun times for a teenager. I have also had the opportunity to move a CN loco, honestly don’t know what, about 50 feet down a yard track, with an accommodating engineer giving instructions. I put the engine brakes on too quick and made the cars all come crashing down the slack. Great Fun!
That Sir,Is VERY impressive;all I can say is that you are one lucky guy![:)][bow]
And I thought I was lucky when the Trainmaster at C&Os Shelby yards asked
if I wanted a cab ride through the yards a bunch of years ago.(approx 74-75)[:)]
I only wish I was only enough to be able to see those plus wish I was lucky enough to see half on those.
…Rode none, but have been on one in Kingman, Az…one in Muncie, In…and one in Ligonier, Pa…All steamers. Tried to get through the Freedom Train Diesel [engine], tour back about 1947 in Johnstown, Pa., but gave up…line was too long.
I’ve been on plenty at railroad museums, but as far as on real railroads, I’ve only been on two. The first was a CP diesel. I do not know what type it was as I was only 5 years old at the time. It had to have been a GP or SD something, though. I also got a chance to go in the cab of CP SD40-2F 9002 about 6 years ago.
Let’s see here I’ve been on a Rock Island RS-2 and a Santa Fe FP-45.
I have been lucky enough to get a cab ride on a few locos.
Two F-7s
F-3
GP-9
GP-10
GE 44 Tonner
S-12
S-8
As-616.
cnw gp9…cnw gp50…cnw sd40… cnw ge4400… cnw gp35…cnwsd45
ic gp9…ic sd70…ic sw900… norfolk western gp30…bn sd9… atsf gp50b
atsf u30 up sd90 others also.
In order of happening,
WSOR 3802, GP38
WSOR 2054, SD20
WSOR 3802 again, GP38
WSOR 3807 GP38
Noah
Noah,
You are lucky.
CW & I got promised a cab ride in a P&L switcher several years ago,
We just haven’t been able to collect[:D]
Just curcious,how goes the A.R.K.[:)]
In the early days of the AC6000’s they had turbo problems. GE redesigned the turbos and they started having a little more success. As far as operating, I prefered them over MAC-90’s. They have the ability to load quicker and the air brakes seemed better to me.
Does my model RR count?
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You make LC look like he’s still in Huggies
[:D]
Only 1, and that was the steam locomotive on the Attica & Arcade RR in Western New York. Dont ask me type it was or what the road number is 'cause I was about 4 or 5 when I rode on it.
If you can fit on your model railroad, it sure can count. By the way, what scale is it?? 1/2?
This must be the ultimate envy thread! Growing up in the steam era, I’ve seen/ridden behind most wheel arrangements, but to ride in the cab of an operating locomotive is quite another story. It would be,I guess, the King City local on the SP coast line, the crew invited me aboard several times, while switching the Atascadero leads, in,I think a 3200 series 2-8-2. Several times I visited the cab of 4300-4400’s while nos 71-72 made their Atascadero stop. Once, in the diesel era I rode a helper over Cuesta Grade SLO-Santa Mragarita. That covers steam and diesel. RE:electric; in 1968, while in the Army, I visited Penn Station in uniform. A GG1 crew invited me into the cab for a look. I’ve never been in such a cramped cab, must be like the engineer cab in a camel-back. This was my lucky day, and all thanks to the uniform, because they invited me for a ride out to Sunnyside yards. Once there, I had the run of the place, and was able to tour through all the great Florida and Chicago/St Louis streamliners, what a treat. When I was done, I simply found the next train for Penn Station, and got another cab ride. As I recall, it was several miles to Sunnyside, and the train obtained pretty good speed, but those G’s still sounded like a big streetcar than a powerful mainline locomotive. This time, I received an invite to ride to DC(and return), but didn’t have the time. In retrospect, I didn’t have the correct priority. The King City local guys also offered to take me up or down the line, and I was similarly “judgement challenged” and failed to accept their offer. I’m sure that now I wouldn’t have minded the spanking or other grief that would have caused.