As a companion thread to the TV trains thread…
Post here about the trains and locomotives you have seen in a book or magazine…they don’t even have to be real trains, Thomas and friends are welcome…after all, this is a TRAINS ONLY forum, right?
We are especially interested in the “rare” finds and catches…anything on a billboard should be all you need to get you all excited and wet behind the knees!
Ed[:D]
This thread has star chaser written all over it…[#dots]
How about a thread about trains you have heard about…No visual required.[X-)]
How about trains you have only heard?
The bells at the crossing gates are extra points!
Ed[:p]
Or mabee the wind you heard blowing over abandoned right of ways.
Yeah!
And rail spikes…we need someone who collects rail spikes!
I used to when I was little, me and my cousins would go walk by the south pass branch line and pick up all the loose spikes sitting on the ROW.
i was walkin thru the cow lot today and a cow must’ve had too much corn, cause the 'patty looked like a rusty UP engine.
You da Man!
So, how many spikes did you end up with?
Ed
On the (off) topic of train sounds…[;)]
Every morning, I hear the air horns in the nearby yard. I’ve called the police, and complained, but apparently my complaints fell on deaf ears…[}:)][:p][;)]
How did the cow make out ?? Must have been rather hard.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by locomutt
i’d imagine they kissed…?
I have a picture of a Big Boy in my office - does this count?
collection of golden book stories you cant forget “Tootle” the engine who had to stay on the tracks no matter what. as for train pictures Ed I’ll let you ask mamma how many i have.
stay safe
Joe
A couple of mentions of trains, etc., in books that I recall:
Railroads are threaded throughout the book “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand (from what I can gather, the fictionalized lines are the UP to Butte, the SP to Mexico and Grand Central Station with the New York Central Building)
The setting for “Murder on the Orient Express” needs no explanation…
…I have a pic of decending train tracks with a sunset over them in this office…Surely that counts.
Absolutly…
List Books with trains!!! BOOKS WITH TRAINS!!!
Oh, please, Ed…not books! [(-D]
hmmm…12-15 bookshelves full with approximately 6 shelves each, each shelf contains about 27 books and how many more boxes yet in the garage and …
My dads brothers cousins ex-wifes step-childs friend once heard a train horn and asked his friends step-dads ex-wifes sister (whom worked for the SF at the time) if it was a Nathan and she sent him to her friends neighbors grandfather who used to work for the RR- but back in the steam era- so he sent him to his co-workers uncles first child of his second marriage and HE said that he wasn’t sure and that he should ask my dads brothers cousin…
Now thats what I was looking for…![:D]