Oh! So many rail places/trains to visit if we had a time machine! For instance, I'd love to ride the 20th Century Limited in the hey-day of deluxe train travel..
Born in 1951, my mother took me to Louisiana when I was four to see her family. Rode “the Hummingbird “ on the L&N . Too bad there’s no videos of the L&N that I could find. By the late 1950s when I saw some trains, all the steam was gone. Love these videos!
This is fabulous and it is about time the ladies got into the the great vintage history of railroading. BNSF has a new CEO run by a very pretty lady. More ladies of all ages are model railroaders now. American flyer trains made by Lionel since 1979 and by A. C. Gilbert from 1946 to 1966 are loved by the girls for their perfect size and scale. More women like American flyer trains because of all that plus they are the most beautiful, sleekest realistic model trains ever made. I hope more ladies start collecting and building layouts like the Gilbert company advertised on TV back in the 1950s.
@@Railfandepot Hi DeAnn, there are more female railfans than we know about. That is popular with the girls now when they find out those things existed years before their time. I collect American flyer trains and the net show littie girls and women alike playing with them and some want those trains and to learn about the Gilbert company and the 1000s of its female employees. Women did everything there to make American flyer trains the finest model trains ever made.
A beautiful lady named Janet is one of the bosses at Rapido model trains company. Great BnO HO and N scale trains made there. I want some BnO Heavyweight cars.
This is amazing you mention this. If true it’s very interesting. I am dealing with my parents’estate now, and my father had quite a bit of American Flyer running stock and tracks, though I have not found them yet. Long story, but he had to get into G gauge for certain reasons and that same reason is why the S are stashed away and probably buried under lots of stuff after more than 20 years. If you have any interest, let me know. I’m a woman, BTW, grew up with my father’s love of trains. In fact, in the ‘80s he helped restore the George Washington engine at the B&O Museum in Baltimore and was a member those decades until he died a few years ago.
I'm already a subscriber and a railroad fan. I'm also a fan of steam locomotives. I'm very intrigued by the complexity of what makes them run and the engineering that built them. Thank you for posting this video.
Thank you for being a subscriber! I like to hear what you folks want to see. We have some footage on "how-to" for a steam engine. Let's see if we can get that on RU-vid for you. -DeAnn
My great grandfather worked for the reading railroad when it first started until 1916, my grandfather worked for the reading railroad as a brakeman on only steam trains from 1917-1947 and my father worked for the reading railroad and conrail from 47'to82, and I worked for septa passenger service from 1980-2015'. I guess you could say it was in the bloodline! Worked out of the Philadelphia and northern suburban line's of Montgomery and bucks county.. I'm 60 now and can't believe how fast my life flashed before my eyes.....
I was working on a CB&Q that's a railroad , A fireman on the locomotive then one day I saw a little baby crawling along the track a baby mind you. And I grabbed that baby and I flung it into a nice pile of soft leaves. Me well I didn't make out so good. Fractured my leg. The baby was all right. Today that baby is president of Vons supermarket you think he ever took the trouble to thank me no sir! Rich folks got short memories.
I always enjoy a good steam video. Thanks for posting this. Forgive me for saying so, but that looks like the Fitzgerald tied off at the ore dock. The view of the bow is what caught my eye. Thanks again!
I'm not a laker guy, but it could also be the William Clay Ford. It has those same lines. I wish the video was clear, so we could read the ship's name. -Tim
@@Railfandepot Believe me I’m a rail fan first,and the laker wouldn’t matter if my family wasn’t from Michigan,and that song hadn’t scared the whatever out of me at 7 sleeping with the radio on.Keep up the great work!
I enjoyed this video, it brought back a lot of memories. I just finished reading "The Story of American Railroads" published in 1947. The B&O has a very interesting history, especially during the Civil War. It is worth the effort to find a copy of this book. Great reading.
Born in 95 but having photographic memory as early as 97-98, I only vaguely remember on rare occasions cabooses, but the mergers had already happened so I did get to see fallen flag power a ton in south Texas but mid 2000’s that too became less frequented catches.
Hello DeAnn. Thank you for another great train video. Once again, you're as lovely as ever. Would love to take a nostalgic long train ride with you. 🌹❣️
Thank you. :-) I like doing the videos, it allows me to railfan and work at the same time! Though I looked at this one and I seem a bit rusty...I guess I need to do more videos for you guys to get back in practice. -DeAnn
@@Railfandepot Thanks, I am currently working as a conductor for NS. I just got promoted to do the engineer training. I am excited because I could finally live to my childhood dream. Thank you very much for making these videos. I always look forward to them they are very interesting and they bring me back to my childhood.
@@curailproductions7636 Congrats on making your dreams come true! I myself kinda want to be a conductor but growing up in the enviornment I did I probably wouldn't be able to handle always bein away from home. Best luck to you.
This is a nice little deal ya got here!!! I'm from Utah, and I love Eastern Railroading. Keep this little thing goin' Ya don't see or hear a lot about the KCS!!! They always seem to get over looked!!!
I am working on this line now, well use to be. I googled the b&o before I actually got here and I thought I found a black and white picture of a derailment inside of the Howard Street tunnel was this something that got mixed up with my Howard Street Google does anybody know what I'm talking about Thank u
Put a B U N C H of people out of work. I know. I was in a machinist apprenticeship program in Newark Oh. Then came Jan 1958 all apprenticeships in all trades were cancelled; The journeyman I was under lost his job AS DID all the journeymen in all trades. Only one master in each trade was retained. Only a small handful of us were young enuf to find other jobs, the rest were SOL as the saying goes. There were men who had rebuilt the transportation system in Europe after WWII. I only know about the man I worked under, my tutor, it pretty much destroyed him. And Western Div, in Newark Oh was not the only repair facility that suffered the same evisceration. I look back on my time with fondness but I cant watch the death again. Give me Steam, Cinders and Smoke.
