Anyone into trains at all?
 

I'm trying to find some other people in the hobbies of railroading/model railroading. I'm really the only person I know of out of everyone I know.

i think they are cool, especially the sound of the slow churching diesel engines, but im more into the graffiti watching part

I've seen some elaborate graffiti. I heard how someone once painted the entire side of a car like a night sky.

I was when i was younger
I was freakin in love with them
Thomas the Tank Engine FTW!!!

Trains are cool. I have a lot of O gauge at home but not permanently set up; I also have a decent size G gauge setup, that's the larger "garden" size trains. As a kid I had elaborate platforms set up with HO and O gauge, on 3 or 4 plywood 4'X8' boards.
One part of my engineering career for the last 35 years has been related to a solution to the problem of locomotive cooling systems freezing up ...they don't use antifreeze so as you can imagine, if they stop running in frigid weather, you got $100's of thousands of dollars damage, not to mention the cost of lost service. Anyway, so I've been around real trains and riding them and crawling around them all that time. I've also taken my kids for rides on some of the local old steam engines/trains. I have friends who are into small gauge model railroading. There is a cool place we go once in a while near Collegeville PA called Pennsylvania Live Steamers, you can go there, picnic, take rides on little trains; it's fun once in a while. Here's a typical pic from their website http://www.palivesteamers.org/Default.htm

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...vesteamers.jpg

i've seen some done a lot more elaborate than that :)

Though messing with train lines (Septa, Amtrak) will get you in big trouble. i been there and done it..got lucky in court but almost ruined my life cuz of it.

you guys don't even know it but you have a resident graffiti legend on TST. Someone I admired when i was really into it in the 90's.

but yea, trains are cool.

My uncles on my dad's side are really into it.
I honestly don't see the whole draw of trains.....

I am kinda, I have some HO scale trains. But never really bother to set it up completly.

whos the legend? his graf name not username

I'm pretty much into trains. Have any of you guys been to Northlands? maybe its spelled with a z im not sure?

I've heard good reports about Northlandz and recall seeing the billboard that used to be on I-95 for the place, not sure if the billboard is still there. In case anyone's interested, it's in Flemington NJ http://www.northlandz.com/

Thanks for the reminder, I'll take my two boys there one of these days soon.

Hey, another thing I remembered ...that Nicholas Smith Trains place that is now on West Chester Pike in Broomall is pretty cool as far as model trains of all sorts, especially their upstairs. And while you're there, you can pump up on some racegas at K & G Speed Shop next door. When I was a little kid I got a really cool old O gauge locomotive from Nicholas Smith back in about 1960 when they were located downtown Philly on 11th St. north of Market ...and that locomotive was already pretty old back then. I have no idea what it's worth now but I paid $120 for it in 1960.

I've been there before. Its pretty cool. I went there when I was about 13 years old.

I've heard of the live steamers. I'll have to get out there sometime. I'm currently working on my HO scale layout. Still in the planning stages. Your job sounds pretty interesting. I work for Norfolk Southern as a Conductor. The systems they have in place now that shut down engines to conserve fuel, then start again to warm the coolant and oil back up seems like it would place a lot of stress on the components of the prime mover itself. All the engineers complain about it because it shuts the engines down even if they're not isolated, so they end up leaving them in notch 1 all the time. What's the problem with just using antifreeze?

The last time I did a train it was in college and the chick wasn't even that cute ok.

HA. That was pretty good.

I used to obsessed with trains back in the day.

I have some expensive antique Lionel Model trains.
God knows how much they're worth.

Oh, and I like that Train level in Goldeneye for N64.:rotfl:

u should see my old buddies fathers collection, he had 3 rows of cars lined up in a case on his basement wall, and a huge model track with mountains and stuff, even with cctv

i have some old ones from when my dad was little. not sure of the sizes by guage, but the engine is about a foot long.

i also delt w/ Conrail out of Camden on a daily basis w/ tank cars coming into and out of eagle point refinery.

emd....do you like working for norfolk?

-brandon

oh and when i lived out in the township a guy about a mile from me built his own RR so that it was easy to feed the cattle and as far as iknow he built and layed the tracks along w/ the engine and cars :)

heres some pics
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-brandon

Damn you, before I got to your post I had every intention of writing

"Yeah I love to run the train, who doesn't!"