http://www.history.com/schedule.do?action=daily&start=1205632800000&getFullDay=true
History Channel is running 3 train shows in a row this Sat.
Wild West Tech Trains
Bullet Trains
And Freight Trains all in a row.
The first 2 are repeats, but I think the Freight Trains show is a new one. The commercial looked different than the other Freight Trains show they already did. (hopefully)
Throw in this weeks episode of Trains and Locomotives on RFDTV and that’s quite a schedule for the 15th on March - which, by the way, was, until 1942 or 1943, the day taxes became due. Anyway, here in the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I get T AND L at 6:00AM which is 9:00AM EDT.
This weeks episode, by the way, is about 1990s excursions of Milwaukee 261.
Also, this Wednesday’s episode of Voyages on History International channel is about Toy Trains; a rebroadcast but worth watching!
I get up at 6:00AM on most Saturdays but the little woman stays in bed examining the inside of her eyelids. I don’t know how I’m going to tell her that I’m going to die for three consecutive hours. Maybe if I promise her a trip to the arches for an ice cream cone it’ll soothe her ruffled feathers.
Thanks for the heads-up loather - I might have missed it since I don’t usually check the guide looking for train features on Saturdays!
And hopefully my PBS station will be finished with it’s 2 week long beg-a-thon and NOT preempt Tracks Ahead Sat. mourning like they have for the last two weeks.[;)]
OBOY! I get to DVR myself into a stupor, this weekend!
Loathar: You get TRACKS AHEAD on your PBS? All I can get on mine is some Libber lecturing about how to survive PMS because it’s all your husband’s fault, or re-runs of Jane Austen. Dang, your PBS channel actually WORKS, LOL!
Tom
Freight Trains is not a repeat. I did a report on it for my eigth grade history project. I got an A+ too!
COOL! It looked like a new one in the commercial![tup]
twhite- I get 2 PBS channels on my dish. They have almost identical programming, but one shows Tracks Ahead and the other one doesn’t. (Sat mourning. 10:30 Central time)
I get to see it when they’re not running their Tofu cooking, Yoga training, Wealth building “how to” beg-a thons…
Begins at 4PM Eastern Time
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Nothing affected settlement of the American West more than construction of the transcontinental railway that connected the Wild West to the civilized East. We spotlight tools as well as techniques used to build tracks, bridges, and tunnels through mountains of solid granite. We also explore technology developed to make trains less vulnerable to bandits and train wrecks–better tracks and rails, arming mechanics with guns, and use of the telegraph as a warning system. Keith Carradine narrates. |
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Modern Marvels: Bullet Trains. Traveling between 135 and 190 miles per hour with an astonishingly high safety record, bullet trains can be found throughout Europe, Japan, and on the US eastern seaboard. How high-speed trains are propelled is rooted in fundamentals that haven’t changed since the first electric trolleys appeared in the 19th century. We see how scientists are looking at new alternatives to electricity, including magnetic levitation that can move passenger trains 345 miles per hour and beyond! |
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How nice of them to schedule those shows on my Birthday…Now, if only Intermountain knew I want one of thier HO scale Maine Central U18Bs…[;)][:D]
I won’t hold my breath!
Keith Carradine narrates for Train Tech?
Isn’t he the guy who acted as “cigarette” in Emperor of the North?
Wild West Tech: Trains is now on in Pacifc time! It features Dan Markoff & his Eureka & Palisades 4-4-0 #4 Eureka!
Wasn’t to bad of show. Some good facts.
It takes 26 days to build a Gevo? I would have never guessed that.
I was bummed! I thought that Freight Trains was going to be a new episode.
BLAST! I came in just in time to the see the last 20 mins of Freight Trains. [banghead]
Man I missed the shows. Dang it!