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SP 4449 from Fargo, ND to Minneapolis, MN, first pic was taken in St. Cloud next the the prison granits walls :glasses7:
 

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I love model railroading as well but my stuff had to get put up when we had our daughter there wasnt room for everything. I still have it all but havent added to it or even pulled it out in a while now . most of it was my uncles who died just a few months before my daughter was born so it means to much to get rid of it .
I anyone is interested im a truck driver and i haul chrysler ford freightliner and international parts to the rail yard everyday that go to mexico .
And rani i noticed you live in colorado I dont know if youve done this or not but if not get on 70 and head west there are areas west of denver that are breathtaking with the mountain views and the railway tunnels that cut right through the middle of the mountains its really cool to see one of them come out of the tunnel as your driving along .
another good place is I-80 after sparks nv and into cali. its called donners pass lots of old railroads and remains of old mining equipment from the gold rush and again trains coming right out the side of a mountain very cool to see if you never it .
 
Here is a pair of picture I took of this very old train :glasses7: waiting to make its way to town for viewing
and I jumped in my truck and took a couple pictures of it Rani, I am proud of these and
framed a pair. The Train police asked me to leave the tracks, but still got a couple cool pictures :coffee2: Enjoy these pictures everyone, Our Radio station here in town used them in a news paper add and I called them to set the story straight who took these pictures, it was not z100 radio team it was me mike :protest:
 

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Some cool old black and white pics I ran across...
 

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Hey 66340SEDAN, great pics of SP 4449. I always thought the "Daylight" was one of the prettiest paint schemes.
Does anybody remember when ol' 4449 was repainted and used to haul the Freedom Train for the Bicentennial? Check out this YouTube video:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcZjf27YHF4"]AFT 4449 (American Freedom Train) East End District 1976 - YouTube[/ame]



And great pics from memike of Union Pacific 3985, one of the two remaining Challenger-class 4-6-6-4 locomotives from the original build of 150. UP 3985 is currently the largest and heaviest operational locomotive in the world with a combined locomotive and tender weight of 1,073,900 pounds. Here's a great YouTube video of a run to Omaha:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OgSNQOTw2U"]Union Pacific 3985 with Maximum Smoke in HD - YouTube[/ame]



Absolutely beautiful to watch these marvels of engineering do their thing!
 
My dad took me to see the freedom train when I was a little kid.. thanks for sharing the video
 
Well I felt like reviving Rani's thread with this fresh off the press shot I took today.


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The Detroit zoo is still using the Chrysler-built locomotive shown at the beginning of this thread. It was restored several years ago and is painted a different color. I went to the zoo a couple years ago, rode the train and had a good up-close look at it. Quite a piece of work, very nicely done.
 
Been keeping up with this story the past month or so.. I am so excited that one of my favorite steam engines ever will get restored (again) back to running condition.. I never got to see this engine in person, and they retired it from excursion service by 93... You can bet the bank when its back on the high iron I will make it a point to travel to see her...
 

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Well it's time to update this thread. I've been chasing the Norfolk Southern Heritage Units fleet. There painted up in the past railroads that NS acquired over the years. I thought I would share a bunch of my misc. picture's I have taken.
 

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A couple more.
 

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what's outside my office. I work on the real ones and play with the smaller ones.
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Is that an Amtrak turbo train in the yard in a couple of those pics?? I havent seen a pic of that train since I was a kid
 
back in 07 when I sold my house, got married and moved into Monica's place, i didnt have a basement (my old house had a finished basement) so the train room, my collection of Lionel, and the train layout got packed up and went into storage... where its still at.. However, my wife was cool enough to let me put some shelves up in our bedroom, so I could put out some of my favorite pieces.. (periodically I rotate stuff, which is what I was doing the day I took this pic.. you can see the New York Central set now on my dresser getting ready to be packed away) .. so.. heres just a small amount of my stuff...

You need to put a shelf all the way around the room about 8" from the ceiling and you can run the trains up there. I'll post some picture of how i've got mine set up running along the ceiling.
 
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