On the post about Railroad books, we have turned our discussion to Official Guides, a couple of mentioning that we reconstruct our trips in the past.
Slightly in a different direction, for those of you with an Official Guide from the 50’s or 60’s, where would you go for a day if you had a couple rolls of good slide film and a time travel machine?
I will think about this for awhile and post later.
ed
5th and Clyborn st. Milwaukee
Roosevelt Road in Chicago where it passes over the Union Station track leads but back in the 1960’s when there was some REALLY hot action all day long!
Roosevelt Road, but don’t limit it to the CUS tracks, can also cover LaSalle and Dearborn with moderate walking.
Don’t forget that until 1963 one could also see the North Shore at Roosevelt Road!
Roosevelt Road would be totally awesome[:)][:D][8D][:p]!!!
fostoria for a day to catch the B&O,C&O and nkp action.
stay safe
Joe
Chicago sounds like fun, but how about the Jersey City pasenger terminal during it’s prime?
Yes, Joe, and if you go in the 50’s, you can catch the NYC coal traffic and the Big Four traffic that ran up the Eastern Branch.
Me, I’d like to go somewhere on the N&W, probably somewhere on the Scioto Division, and catch the waning days of the N&W steam. I sort of remember it but I sure would like to see it again.
Sayre, PA in say 1948, or Waverly NY, where I could watch not only my all time fave LV, but the Erie and the DL&W, too. Then there’s Allentown PA Union Station, or… Now you’ve done it![;)] I would get on LV 10, the Black Diamond in Buffalo,and then detrain at Sayre walk up to Waverly, stay there until DL&W 5 came in and what a day THAT would have been[;)]! Or, ride to Allentown Union for CNJ,LV and Reading! Going back to Buffalo on LV 7, the REAL Maple Leaf![sigh] But no, I’d best make my peace with CSX and NS for now. How about a topic on where you would like to have ridden and when? Here’s mine.[;)]
yea I was wondering about the NYC too.wasnt sure when they stopped going into fostoria.
stay safe
Joe
Well, the North Shore stuff sounds good, but I think I would go much later… To the late 1980s in Wisconsin, when Soo Line was still Soo Line, Alcos still ruled the Green Bay & Western, the Fox River Valley was starting up, and so was the Wisconsin Central! Not to mention the early days of the WSOR, and the WICT, and gas was cheap enough to cover all these areas!!!
And if I had another day or two, I’d go chase the Chicago Central and some Iowa shortlines…
I’d prefer taking my trusty digital along too, I’ve never shot slides!!!
Mt Clare Station on the B&O and then along the Ma and Pa
I guess I would tend to want to catch some of the best of the best of steam on the Pennsy. Q-2’s, T-1’s, J-1’s, K-4’s…oh that would be nice…
Would enjoy watching some D&RGW brutes on Tennessee Pass, too.
Wouldn’t mind watching the CNW and CMStP&P run some insanely fast steam up in Wisconsin, too.
Would like to take the Digital like Fuzzy, but would be afraid of altering the course of history, though! I’d only take contemporary cameras. Guess I had better get my Graflex checked out before I go! [;)]
I have 2…the GB&W’s main line & UP Sherman Hill (in the 1940’s)…sorry doesn’t fit the time frame.
No one has said it yet, but I would like to see UP and CP’s transcon race. It was pretty rough and tumble times, but to see the final spike driven in Utah would be way to aweinspiring to miss!
If I had a Time Machine in Chicago I would be able to catch eath train as it departed the downtown terminal, then go out to the burbs where I would catch the train at speed. In the 1960’s the burbs may not be so far out. It would be so much fun to have all the Class 1’s of 1960.
I’d also want to spend time at each freight terminal.
Well if I had a Delorean to go back in time I’d go back to the final days of steam on the N&W… I would have loved to have seen that.
But since I’m in the real world I’d take my Blazer to Roanoke to catch some NS yard action and plenty of coal and intermodal runs. Then I might swing by the Link and Transporation museums to wrap the day up with some historical value.
Willard Oh. yard in the fifties.TRIPLE-headed EM-1’s on the Lake Line at Middlefield Oh.Sand Patch. Cumberland. Then off to Chicago,with a stop in Hammond,In. to find out what steam loco that was sitting in the Erie yards was.(Anyone know?It was around 1960.)
I think I would have to stay in PA and catch some of the good old days action, if I were able to go back in time and catch some of railroadings past. I also would of made my way over to Chicago, to see some of those awsome interlockings the Windy City has.