I will never forget that day, Ed! Marion would have been a suicide mission!!!!! My mother-in-law is roughly 80 miles north of you? We had ice and snow up there that was just incredible! Coming down to you, just past Dayton the weather changed over to cold cold rain. My daughter had an appointment at her school in Indiana and my wife was unable to get there. The next day I drove her out and the ice on the trees was something I had never seen before! Actually, I had to take her, go back home and then go out to get her again and that was about 200 miles of driving that day! On my way back home on the first trip I saw a woman on the road who had her windshield broken from a fallen branch! It's a wonder she wasn't killed! We were lucky I guess not to have had such bad weather in Cincy, but man it was cold. I will only have one day to railfan in Cincy in May. I will talk to you about it tonight also. My schedule is kind of tight. I hope to get to see you and our buddy Don, the General Yardmaster of the Queensgate yard too!
Johnny wanted me to post this for him. This is from Deshler's Railroad & Heritage Days, although I don't know which year. I'll let him fill in the details.
A railfan checks out 66072 at Par on the 1st March, it had just arrived from Penzance with empty oil tanks and run round and the crew were waiting to head for St Blazey yard. The empty oil tanks headed East to Plymouth on another train that evening, and 66072 went back to working clay trains, which it had already done a couple of runs on by the white weathering on the roof!
Is that your tent Brian?????? I think I took that in 2001. I forget. lol I've been there 5-6 times already!
That's no railfan, that's my wife! We rode all the Green Mountain RR's tourist trains in Vermont. We sure had a private (ex-Santa Fe) car all to ourselves that day!
A little more about the young railfan in the previous post. He came to the museum by train, with his father and older brother. I had been taking some pictures of items exhibited inside the building when I saw this youngster's interest in the old Lionel cars at the front of the O-gauge display.
Ok gang, you have all seen Peirce's pics of railfans at work but what about the man himself? here he is hard at "work" railfanning......or is it railfan-fanning? Russ
Ahh yes Peirce! You caught me sleeping in the cupola of one of DRM's cabeese! (LOL) Actually, your interesting commentary that day kept me wide awake (along with a brisk wind) Happy railroading! Russ
Okay, my turn I guess. Here is a little "railroad shack" that some railfan built near the horseshoe bend in Mance, PA. It's called "Mance Training Camp." The doors are left open and anyone is welcomed to go in, most people have engraved their names inside the little shack with what trains and motive power they saw, along with a date and sometimes a time. Here is another view of the shack. Thanks to whoever built it, kept us nice and warm while we were out rail fanning.
That's really neat! I pray that there will not come a day when some jerk comes along, and ruins a good thing! What is the PA horn for? Boxcab E50
Hey boxcab. This guy has alot of stuff in it.. TV, old radio, even cooking stuff outside. So far from what I hear, he's only had like one thing stolen. The PA, I think hooks up to the radio inside. It's a great place to watch the CSX trains, you can see the entire train, it's kind of like horseshoe curve in PA. Also, something new.. I hear now, that the guy just bought a house not to far from the shack, so now he can keep tabs on it. I believe he lives out of state somewhere. I'll have to find out. Oh.. I would say the shack is about maybe 100 feet from the track if that.
