STRASBURG RR ON TONIGHT

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Just a reminder - an episode filmed at Strasburg Pa is on the History Channel Program Locomotives airing at 8pm EDST tonight!![:)]

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On the TV Guide website it just says locomotives.

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History channel WEB site, referrs to this program as Locomotives, no mention of Strasburg RR, description of program is as follows.

Zip through the French countryside at nearly 300 MPH on the TGV–the fastest locomotive in the world. Ride on the little engines that could as they guide giant ships through the Panama Canal. Watch two locomotives crash head-on as the federal government monitors safety. Descend 700 feet below the earth’s surface where mining locomotives move miners through a maze of tunnels. Then, it’s a “jiffy lube” for locomotives inside America’s largest maintenance shop. Finally, glide into the future with a locomotive that levitates on a cushion of air.

http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=281396

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I’ll be watching it (maybe, I got baseball practice, though).

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This link is for the other Strasburg post http://cs.trains.com/forums/3/1316683/ShowPost.aspx#1316683. The beginning of page 3 has a description of the show. Several members have watched the filming/corresponded with the History Channel about the show. Happy viewing![:)]

P.S. Even if it’s not about Strasburg, it is about trains!!!

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I just had my wife look it up on the DVR so I can record it tonight and it’s actually the show “Modern Marvels” but this one just happens to be about trains.

Thanks for the heads up!!!

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I have my VCR set to record it in the event I’m not here. Please, no fire calls tonight.

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Thanks for the heads up![tup]

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Bump

I hope we’ll not all be disappointed again…If, from the description mentioned above, this is a re-run of the previous airings, the shot of the Strasburg RR is a clip of about 4 seconds, showing a moving train. You see the Loco and tender and the beginning of the passenger cars where one can identify that it is indeed a Strasburg RR tain.

Living very local to the Strasburg RR, this is of great interest to me, so I’ve been keeping an eye open for any new information, on the now not so recent filming at Strasburg, and even E-mailed A&E networks, the parent of the History channel (with no reply in 2 months) but have not seen or heard anything indicating that there will be ANY full episode centered around the Strasburg Railroad.

If anyone has followed the History Channels several shows about trains; Modern Marvels, the one about the (2) locos of the coast of New Jersey(Deep Sea Mysterys?), and several others; they all have VERY brief clips/shots of the Strasburg Railroad, but none more than 6 seconds.

I welcome any information anyone can provide about the subject.

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Thanks for the headsup. I’ve taken my grandson there twice to ride on Thomas the Tank Engine, so I’ll definitely be putting this on my VCR. I actually have a 5 car set of coaches from Strasburg that I run around on my layout

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I just saw a preview on the History channel, and It looks like it is going to be a new episode, not a re-run (that I’ve seen anyway) and the Strasburg Loco is shown in the preview (first shot).

Prospects are looking better for more than a 6 second clip.

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I don’t care if it’s a re-run or not, I enjoy them just the same.

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THAT was a killer show! The CSX shop and the under ground locos were cool! I hadn’t seen this one yet. It’s on again at 11:00 EST.
Wish it was that EZ to change brakes on my Jeep!

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The section on steam engines lasted maybe 8 minutes…

Strassburg portion was perhaps 30 seconds.

Typical History Channel slice and dice.

-G-

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What show did you watch Laterasl G? The whole steam section was done on the Strasburg RR. It looks like the rest of us enjoyed it!![:)]

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Missed it, and on top of that, i have to ice my arm. oh well, I did great at third. I hope I can catch it some time down the road.

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Packersfan#1, it’s on in 2 minutes.

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IT HAS A CAB VIEW OF GW #90!!

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I’ll turn it on soon.

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Loved the tire changing bit. Glad that rubber is a lot more cooperative - no gas ring, and no sledgehammers required.

I would have liked to see more steam, but, realistically, it was a pretty well balanced hour of present-day rail technology.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)