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Union Pacific 844 Steam Engine and consist will be in Fort Worth at 3pm on 11/1 departing to the north at 8am 11/2.
It will be heading up thru Saginaw, Boyd, up to a water stop in Bowie.
An incredible site to see full speed live steam, and it moves pretty fast.
Take you camera, and the kids!
Here is where you can track 844 in realtime.
http://www.up.com/aboutup/special_tr...team/trace.cfm
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4042/4...cc6a5269_o.jpg
I rode on this train last year when it came thru...EXCEPT.. I was in the front cab not the pass cars...Perks of working for the railroads. Super cool train!!!
Well I was in the black Miata that ran with 844 from Saginaw, way up into Oklahoma.......It was awesome!
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Nice,
I will do my best to be there Thursday or Friday. Not sure which yet. Bigsturbo, can you get me in the cab ::Banana::
Model Train Show is this weekend in Plano….
http://dfwtrainshows.com/content/dal...ary-18-19-2014
ask at the door for the "home tour" and go see some personal layouts that will blow your mind.
http://youtu.be/SO3djsWf93k
Here ia cool train pic. BNSF train going over a gorge in Oregon in 2012.
Where's the smoke?
Rogue thanks for the info. Funny thing I just got my hobby room finally. I'm going to start laying train track soon. I'm going to have a train track, slot car track (both digital), and space for my R/C airplanes. I used to have trains when I was a kid, so now I'm doing it again. So now with my hobbies and a hobby Miata I pretty much have all the money pits I need. It's great to be older and finally have a good job.
i have an old Lionel set that needs to be played with....
I got a great book today on the Southern Pacific / Cotton Belt in the Fort Worth, Dallas, Corsicana, Ennis districts. This is the area I'm going to model, but I'm not sure of the time period yet. The book was all '79 to '83. I'd like to get the late 50s / early 60s and the overlap of the diesel / steam era. Passenger trains that weren't Amtrak were popular then too. I could always do the early 80s. I'd have coal trains, auto parts trains, plain freights and Amtrak.
Thanks for the link, Rogue! I think I'm going to take my son to this on Sunday.Quote:
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What time do you think you'll go Iain? Might try to coordinate and meet up.
Dunno yet. Gotta talk to Melissa. I'll shoot you a text once I have it figured out.Quote:
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Here are some of the home tours that will be available…..
Angelo's Central
5515b Bonner DrHaltom City 10 to 6 closed Lone Star Hi-Railers (Grapevine Rail Yard)
298 W. Dallas RoadGrapevine 10 to 4 1 to 6 Brian and Ruth Jensen
7510 Spring Meadow LnGarland 3 to 6 3 to 5 Chip Romig
4609 Blackshear TrailPlano 2 to 6 closed Clyde Rypert Plano 12 to 4 closed Darrel Smith
5212 Lower Birdville RdHaltom City 9 to 9 9 to 9 Dean Ferris Decatur closed 1 to 5 DFW O Scale, SSRM Dallas 11 to 7 closed Steve and Amy Willis
1233 Collin DrLewisville closed 1 to 6 Don Murphey
1202 Strathmore DrSouthlake closed 1 to 5 E Texas MR Club Commerce 9 to 5 9 to 5 Elbert Smith
518 Granada drGarland closed 1 to 6 Interurban Museum Plano 12 to 5 1 to 5 Walter Zahn
3309 Point East drMesquite closed 1 to 5 Jim Aust
1061 Woodbriar drGrapevine 1 to 8 closed Jerry Hoverson McKinney 1 to 7 1 to 6 Joe Barnhardt Royce City 12 to 12 12 to 9 Mark Krause Carrollton 3 to 9 closed McKinney Ave Transit Authority Dallas 10 to 5 10 to 4 Stan Pirzchalski
4832 Lakeside DrColleyville closed 12 to 5 Jim Hendersen Dallas 4 to 8 closed North Texas N-Trak
108 Lee stIrving 12 to 6 12 to 5 Paul Domis
702 Pleasant drDallas closed 12 to 6 Allan Gartner Richardson 12 to 5 closed Steve and Kim Lazzari Ft. Worth 11 to 5 11 to 4 South Side Railroad Modelers
1409 S Lamar stDallas 11 to 7 closed Texas Northern MR Club Mesquite 1 to 6 1 to 6
I went today with my wife and baby girl. I didn't find the track I wanted, but I did find a few freight cars that will fill my needs. I'm going to model a pretty specific stretch of rail line and time frame.