We like to reminesce about the days of steam and other more “general” topics of bygone days of railroading but what are some of the smaller things you miss? For me, it’s probably the following:
Cabooses (duh!)
Open-sided auto racks
Pulpwood cars with 5 foot logs
Pyle gyralights
What else, guys?
For me, it’s:
steam engines
cabosses
Hmmmm, bygone for me, uhh Conrail?
Adrianspeeder
Towers and orders being “hooped” up to trains. Just dont see it much anymore.
ed
The Rock
Steam whistles
Taking the Erie Lackawanna to Chicago from Hoboken. Watching the industrial eastern New Jersey give way to the bucolic Western New Jersey and then the rolling hills of Pennsylvania. Those were the days.
Taking the B&O through Pittsburgh at night and getting the light show to end all light shows from the steel mills located along the Mongahela and Ohio rivers between McKeesport and New Castle operating on the P&LE.
Gotta be the caboose.
stay safe
Joe
Variety…
Today a real freight train is a rare sight, its almost all double stack container trains, pulled by visually inter-changable safety cab engines, and out here we only got a few flavors, UP Lemon, BNSF Orange, and Metrolink White…with occasional left over SP grey…
Train spotting out here is pretty damn dull![V]
For me it would be. #1 The B&O. #2 GG1s. #3 Cabooses.
PS.Real Class 1 Passenger Trains!!!
Even though it wasn’t that long ago, I miss the Wisconsin Central the most. The part about the WC that I miss the most would be the variety of motive power along with the colors of them. Also, the employees of the WC and how nice they were to the railfans. Sure, they are still the same employees today but under different rules of CN. Sure doesn’t seem the same anymore.
Everything!!!
I miss Conrail.
I miss the Chicago & Northwestern…mostly the great Yellow and Green commuter trains being pushed and pulled by E and F units, some at very high speeds.
I miss my ex-wife.
But my aim is improving.
Small stuff:
telegraph
extention bracket phones
proper railroad watches
Not so small:
steam engines
cabooses
nice passenger trains
depots
roundhouses and turntables
water tanks
…
I miss most everything said before(except ex-wives)
Especially miss the caboose.
Also the C&O
passenger trains that DONT have half eaten candy stuck to them