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Back at home after a fantastic rail vacation. The highlight was the visit with Big_Boy_2005, who opened his layout to us and became a tour guide extraordinaire for July 22 and 23.  I'll have several movies from the trip to share, and will start with this one of a stack train in operation on his layout.

 

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Not all movies on the trip were in Minnesota, or even of Lionel Trains. I hope you guys don't mind if I put a few others under this thread. Here's Amtrak's California Zephyr roaring West through Hinsdale, IL. We spent Friday afternoon at Hinsdale, watching the rush of trains. Over 25 trains in 5 hours. Mostly METRA of course, but lots of freight and Amtrak as well.

 

 

 

 

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This was the first night of the trip: July 19. The Lake Shore Limited was 6 hours late leaving Penn Station, New York ,because of a rockslide at Peekskill. so, we had night views up the Hudson river. I tried to capture the George Washington Bridge, and this is the result. Taken from the rear platform in the vestibule of private car Mount Vernon.

 

 

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Remember the clickitity-clack of old time railroading on jointed rail? You can still hear it on the Buckingham branch RR in Virgina. From the rear of Amtrak's Cardinal. This is the section of track between Gordonsville and Orange.

 

Back in the day, when I was an Engineer, the Fourth District (Fullerton-San Diego) and the Second District (San Bernardino toLos Angeles via Pomona and Pasadena) were jointed rail.  I rarely had to look at the speedometer, as listening to the wheel clicks was pretty accurate in telling speed.  The train in the movie is running at 60 MPH.

Originally Posted by BANDOB:

Remember the clickitity-clack of old time railroading on jointed rail? You can still hear it on the Buckingham branch RR in Virgina. From the rear of Amtrak's Cardinal. This is the section of track between Gordonsville and Orange.

 

Nice video. At 0:23 you can see where Lionel Lines used to branch off of the old C&O.

Does Buckingham Branch still have ex RF& P GP9 101 as restored by RF&P workers in the 1990's. Last I saw it, it was in poor shape. A real shame RF & P deserves to have something preserved.

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