Just thought I’d say something for anyone who doesn’t know of the show. This show is called “Trains” and is on the RFD channel at 6pm on Mondays, and I believe it’s on another day at some early hour. For those with DirecTv it is channel 345, and I do not know what the RFD stands for, rural farm digest maybe??. Anyhow, it’s an hour long show covering different RR’s around the transition period and before, basically lots of steam. Tomarrows show is covering the Great Northern, while last week was more about The General and all the rr’s that used it. There was also one on the Indiana RR and interurbans. That same channel has another show on toy trains but I find it more about the toy end of it.
RFD stands for Rural Free Delivery. It was an old US Postal Service term for the service where a man went from farm to farm delivering mail. Over the years it has become a slang term for rural America.
I watch ‘Trains and locomotives’ every week. This weeks show is about the Burlington Northern.
I used to watch that regularly before Dish revised their channels and moved RFDTV to a higher package. Now I don’t get the channel at all. I miss those shows. They used to come on Saturday mornings.
Ron
God bless the individual who invented the DVR, All I do is enter a keyword “Trains” and it records every show about trains they broadcast.If my DVR ever craps out I will probably jump off the roof…lol I need to save everything to a disc.
I know what you mean there. My old one started screwing up so I was saving the shows as best I could. All I had at the time was a VCR so all the shows got saved to VHS tapes before the DVR could expire completely. I had a new one within a week and sent the old one back to Dish Network. So far I haven’t had any problems with the new one.
Jeff,
Bought a DVD/VCR player burner/recorder from Sam’s club for I think around $175.00 so what I have been doing is playing the shows on the TV with the DVD/VCR burner and getting two shows per disc. because if I don’t it’s a given it will go up in smoke. I used it to convert all my other train videos as well. The VCR tapes just don’t hold up. If you have a DVR from Dish Network check with them as some of the DVR’s have a USB port on the front of them that I was told by the Verizon guy that can be used to download what you have saved on their DVR but not on Verizon’s
Tom Thanks for posting this. Some of the shows weren’t for me but I did like the one the SP 4449. Although I’m not BNSF fan the The Gateway Sub episode was a worthy watch.
ratled
First thing I do every Friday morning is go to the guide, set it to RFD-TV, and skip ahead to 6PM Monday eastern time in order to find out what’s on the agenda for that day’s program…Incidently, Trains and Locomotives rebroadcasts at 4AM Tuesday eastern time; it used to rebroadcast on Saturday morning but RFD-TV dropped that broadcast time about six months ago in favor of other programming.
I Love Toy Trains broadcasts–also on RFD-TV–at 2PM Thursdays eastern time and rebroadcasts at 2AM Fridays eastern time. Although this program primarily orients itself around 3-rail tinplate this past Thursday they began a series on the HO Layout at Chickytown’s Museum of Science and Industry.
I would love to get those shows but I have Verizon FIOS. Apparently they’re not as good as “those other guys” [:-^] They taunt me with the channel in the lineup, and I can see the schedule. But whenever I try to select the channel I get re-routed to some message that says I have to press “OK” to subscribe, but pressing “OK” doesn’t subscribe. [:(]
I wish I could get it to come on.
John
One of the reasons I dumped Cablevision for Fios Was the fact that RFD-TV was in its basic lineup. Didn’t have to buy anything extra to get it. I get it on Dish-net too. I love toy trains is on here at 4p to 4:30p eastern. Mostly lionel and tin plate though.
I watch “Trains and Locomotives” every Monday at 5 PM CST in our neck of the woods on Direct TV channel 345. I still wish they didn’t move it to Monday. I prefer the show better when it came on Saturday morning at 8 AM. It was a great show to watch on Saturday morning with my morning coffee and put me in the mood to work on my layout the rest of the day. Yesterday’s episode was on BNSF’s Gateway Sub. If any of you get a chance to go to California and see Lassen Volcanic, Lake Almanor,and the Kidder Y it’s well worth the trip. There is a place to pull off the road and take pictures. I’ts also within a few hours drive to Lake Tahoe…chuck