Well, this is a promotional film made by the company. Such PR efforts/sales pitches are always glowing, and overfilled with optimism. I believe the company fell due to a bunch of problems, made worse by the ever ignorant choice to defer maintenance, and essentially ended by a court order as a result of a union deciding to strike, (brilliant!), in the midst of a bankruptcy. What is interesting, is how much of that system still survives today, albeit in parts and segments. Hmmm. I might have this as a video, in my old VHS stuff. It seems very vaguely familiar.
Here is a interesting video with some unusual track construction. Western Pacific on the move in Sacramento, Ca. [video=youtube;-hzQtnz2GuE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hzQtnz2GuE[/video] I'm just sure some hot shot modeler is going to replicate this. I hope so! :wideeyes:
Here is the video I was talking about in a previous post. However, this is just a tease and doesn't get into the specific's. Big business has been leaving California in droves due to over taxation and certain green minded thinking. With it has gone a solid tax base...vanished. If you get my drift. It's still happening as I write this...true. Here's the teaser. [video=youtube;htvvM-sLXcQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htvvM-sLXcQ[/video] Are you tiring of all this adrenalin pumping excitement?
It is very true. A bunch have moved over to Nevada. But that has been a somewhat messy change. It's costing you more to live day to day, as many trucking companies won't even enter your State any more. I'll stop here. Not a chance. I'm enjoying seeing so many real trains, with a lot of people and occupied structures. Much better than little boxes all the same, traveling miles and miles of vacant miles and miles.
More From Missouri Pacific As Ken said, it's true. And, if someone doesn't figure it out...well...I'l quit here.:sweat: I'm having loads of fun viewing various video's. I won't bring them all here, just the ones that impress me. The Missouri Pacific, now a Union Pacific subsidiary. Watch the screaming eagles as they pull their manifest freight's down the main. [video=youtube;-nGPPZlG33U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nGPPZlG33U[/video]
UP #3985, on Missouri Pacific Tracks, replicating The River Eagle. A short video. [video=youtube;P2Lp1CWWd1g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Lp1CWWd1g[/video]
Keddie Wye, today as seen through the eyes of a rail fan. You won't mind my speculating a what if or two. You do? Big Bear with me. Why Union Pacific would shut down Tennessee Pass and keep Donnner Pass open and simultaneously maintain the old Western Pacific ROW has puzzled me? The old WP route has more miles to it but the benefits are less gradients, staying at a lower elevation resulting in less snow fighting efforts to contend with. On another note: Why BNSF didn't pick-up the WP Feather River Route along with the D&RGW? Considering they use the west end of it, as their own? Santa Fe years ago had the opportunity to pick-up Pearlman's MoPac, D&RGW and the WP. That would of given considerable life to these railroads never mind the competitive factor it would of brought to the regions served by other railroads. Today UP is the dominant player with BNSF reluctantly using this route. Clear as mud yet? Always the could a, should a and didn't. I don't think anyone's crystal ball was working that well, back when. Hindsight is always better then foresight. [video=youtube;NNp5REEx9Dk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNp5REEx9Dk[/video]
Competitive rivalries. Personal conflicts. (Some of those guys knew and hated each other, mostly because of a business financial (real or perceived) back stab, or simple childish jealousies.) Some of the leadership couldn't plan a walk to their own bathroom, without getting lost, let alone the future of a railroad. I can exemplify by noting the MILW, here. If they'd survived just a couple of years longer, out west, they'd be a huge powerhouse now. They had huge location advantages in both Seattle and Tacoma, and with containers going as they have, would be seeing a big amount of traffic today. Instead, it's a tax money losing trail in many places, and already forgotten elsewhere.
I wonder what happened to this little beauty? [video=youtube;r-oyrma9G_w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-oyrma9G_w[/video]
I don't want to think of what might of happened. Ken, here's a stove that made it to the future. [video=youtube;6s871pbzEKQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s871pbzEKQ[/video]
It depends... If you could find the right people, start a campaign, and raise enough money... hboy: I just started watch the video, and I find it wholly ironic that the museum let negotiations to renew the lease fall through, yet they somehow were interested in selling 261 outright, instead. Always those differences of opinion. I also notice she's change whistles again. I even have an N scale shell of 261/251 that I need to work on and detail and then do some excursion runs in N scale with.
Yes. They've done this many times. Years ago, when they ran back east, (the "New River..." excursions), they put an N&W hooter on.
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad is without a doubt one of my favorites. The era depicted, in this teaser of a video is one I'm modeling. In light of some recent Santa Fe questions on TB., here's a look at Santa Fe, era the 80's. [video=youtube;AEF8Q-7SGzo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEF8Q-7SGzo[/video]
Several of the U-boats look like they'd qualify as honorary steam engines. Wish there was sound, so we could hear them chug past.
From a favorite place, with deep family roots, the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. I actually got to see some of these lokeys at work on this line, when I was a boy. At one time, my maternal grandfather worked for their predecessor company, Polson Brothers. This one is a bit long, but well worth the time expended to watch: [video=youtube;idByoo-prFU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idByoo-prFU[/video]
Ken, I can't get enough of the videos you are sharing here. I had relatives living in that neighborhood for a short time. Otto Perry, is one of my favorite photographers. Here is some of his work in Otto Perry's Santa Fe. [video=youtube;AC3Q-L_HgM4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC3Q-L_HgM4[/video] The next video is a real dirge. How about a look at a Santa Fe Grave Yard? As captured by Bob Chester. [video=youtube;TY_AtCznQyo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY_AtCznQyo[/video] Music is worse then some of the pre-embels, preludes and postludes we played at funerals.hboy:
I love Otto Perry stuff! And I agree, that music is somber. Fitting, but somber. I don't recognize the composer. Classical, and appropriate. I remember one slide show I attended, believe one year after the MILW left Lines West. The "A&L Slide-A-Thon" in Salem, Oregon. Ted Pope, who did one of the MILW videos you linked earlier, had a great 3 speaker stereo presentation of the MILW out west. His opening music was "Funeral For A Friend", by Elton John. Sure got everyone focused that night! When that music began, the screen was blank, then he hit it with an opening slide of a Little Joe in the yard at Avery, Idaho and everyone simply gasped. Great way to get people's attention! Funny thing, Ted and I attended the same high school. He was a couple of years ahead of me, and we didn't really know each other until about ten years later, after he'd left the MILW, and moved over to BN. I knew of a Ted Pope who worked for the MILW, but didn't know it was him until then.
Cajon Pass the three track version. Now that statement could start arguments. In case you are wondering how things look today, here is a lengthy video from the old Cajon Station location. [video=youtube;C1ZhrDokRjM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ZhrDokRjM[/video]
