From “All coronavirus, all the time!” news coverage? Yeah, don’t we all!
Well here’s a good distraction with lots of happy stuff! It’s the Penn Rail Video site!
I’ll start you off with this one, New Hope & Ivyland #40 doing some smart running!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WLIt97u1VY
The rest are here, you can pick out your own. https://www.youtube.com/user/csx6000
Have fun! I’m going to!
Better this than what Steve Otte’s doing over on the Model Railroader side, enforcing escapism by forbidding any mention of the ‘current unpleasantness’ at all.
So, if you are on the MR forums, Oceana was never at war with Eastasia?
Anyway, here’s a similar post from the RYPN forum:
Diesel Videos for Shut-Ins
Need to kill some time while on lock down. Here are a few I found for the Diesel Heads among us.
GENERAL MOTORS DIESEL: THE MODERN POWER DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES BURLINGTON ZEPHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC5o3VNlJns
First start in 72 years WWII 1942 Cleveland Diesel 8-268A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Dw6aSzdWk
MAN F6V35 World War 1 U-boat diesel engine load run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5opnhfG35zo
GM 1938 Diesel locomotive Promo Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcRLugrGjBw
16 Cylinder 645 E7 EMD diesel Boneyard to Dyno (slides of complete rebuild w/ run video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qXU4xYGYSI
Cleveland 8-268 Twin Diesels - Telegraph Control- Uchuck Motor Vessel (Beautiful old Clevlands)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZl_5tN_uc
GM EMD (Electro Motive Division) V12 tvåtaktsdiesel i Tångeråsa (a V-12 you can take to the next hit n miss engine show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxPBw6MkeAI
Canada Made GM-EDM GT18L-2 Taking Massive Curve On Bangladesh Railway (Amtrak wishes they could get ridership like this)
Just the way it was growing up in Burlington, CNR, CPR, TH&B, little trains, big trains. When Diesels came all the charm disappeared. Nothing was ever the same.
Sounds to me like the aforesaid,[8-|] Mr. Ott; has learned nothing in several intervening years…
He parachuted in, to ‘moderate’ the TRAINS Forums…
After a few days (maybe, weeks(?). They shot him back to the children’s side of the business [:#] In his short term trying to ‘moderate ’ the adults’ on this side of the Forums… He was about as unhappy, and unwelcome, as the current virus, going around… I think, that was about the time that Murphy Siding, and Selector took mental health breaks, from ‘moderating’??? [:'(] [8D]
Sam,
You mean to say those beatings did not improve morale?
This will cheer you up- it’s my thing, the narrow gauge railways of Eastern Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COqFD6Eu9pQ
I’ve done the entire Harz system about 10 years ago- I have got to get back there. It’s a serious operation, without a doubt.
Nothing was ever the same when Will Woodard developed Super Power steam to advance from USRA and earlier designs. Nothing was ever the same when steel cars replaced wood. Progress always involves change.
In 30 years, if we still walk the Earth, we will be wondering why the railroads ran such short 15K foot trains…
It’s their site and they’re allowed to police them as they see fit, I personally see nothing wrong with forbidding the discussion of the current events on any site dedicated to a specific hobby. Why bother when there’s thousands of other sites talking about this ad nauseum, I literally avoid internet news because I’m tired of it already.
This forum deals with the REAL WORLD that REAL RAILROADS operate in - you can’t divorce the present conditions of the world from the REAL WORLD. All those employed individuals on here have to deal with the present conditions as do all railroaders that are on here. Reality is REAL, not a TV show.
The heck you can’t, and the Model Railroader site has nothing to do with the Real World so eliminating talk about the virus from that site is a valid moderating point. I don’t know where you come from but I find all sorts of instances of divorcing present conditions from the real world.
I work too, as a matter of fact I’m mandated to work since I’m considered a “Federal Emergency Response Officer”, but work is a drag because everyone is sitting at home cooped up inside. I’m expecting a spike real soon in violent home crimes if this shelter-in-place continues much longer, just because of human nature.
There’s talk of extending our shelter-in-place until t
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OP: “let’s talk about stuff other than Corona on this thread!”
Trains forum people: “Ok, let’s talk only about Corona on this thread!”
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Can I copy and paste long-winded dissertations of copywrited materials published elsewhere including the in-line links from the other source? [:-,]
Uh, yeah. Personally I’m not going to say another word about coronavirus unless someone asks my opinion of all the goings-on.
Loved everyone elses videos! Those diesel vids were interesting, and that German narrow-gauge one was very picturesque!
C-O, if I understand your question it’s OK to show the link to any possible copyrighted material, but not the material itself. We had a hassle over this a while back. Some of the stuff another poster was displaying was so old I couldn’t believe it was still copyrighted but the moderators still went into a tizzy over it.
Best just to show the link, that way no-one gets in trouble.
And Mr. McFarlane, thanks for all you do as a FERO!
+1 to Zug’s comment. Sing it Brother!
These “Life of a Tram Driver” videos are strangely hypnotic. But I want to send them over some real air horns.