Any Train guys here?

This was too funny not to share.

 

I misread the thread.

 

When I was a freshman or sophomore in high school the guidance counselor asked what I wanted to be and I said an engineer

He was talking to my mother and asked what kind of engineer I wanted to be chemical civil mechanical….

My mother replied “locomotive”

And since this is in the Water cooler I’ll add this

I have always been a train buff and when I graduated college the EMD division of GM offered me a job selling locomotives seems like dream job

Keep in mind I walked 2 blocks to grade school 5 blocks to high school and could take a bus to college

The job was in Zambia and no that’s not near Toledo as one friend told me

 

We all line up in single file line?

 

This is sort of train related

I just booked tickets on the Glacier Express in Switzerland for next September plus several more including Bernina Express

 

A couple days ago I started thinking it would be kind of cool to take a train ride across the country. I checked on the price and quickly chalked it up to a pipe dream. I had only made it halfway to the west coast and it was $1700 for sleeper. No way in hell I’m sitting in a chair for a week

 

All Aboard.................................! If you can get down to 1/160th scale I can save you lots of $$$$. I road these along with the Pendolino (bullet train) in Italy down to Florence and they were all amazing. When you booked? (Nevermind - Sept 2025.)

 

I rode a train from Chicago to Nashville (I believe it was....it was somewhere in Tennessee), and back a few day later when I was a boy. It seemed like a long boring trip.

 

Cool

My father and I built two model railroad layouts one in O and a fairly elaborate one on HO

 

I rode Amtrak recently and it was nice

Sleeper cars are expensive but I’m thinking of taking one to Glacier NP

If you like cruises there are train trips that are similar with daily stops and excursions

I took trips on private trains from

Seattle to San Diego

Montreal to Vancouver

Beijing to Moscow (5300 miles)

All were great

 

My cousin and her husband have traveled from East Coast to San Francisco, coach, a couple of times. I wouldn't want to do it that way myself but......... If they got tired of not showering and having to sleep in a seat, they'd get off the train and get a hotel for a night or two.

 

I went with N scale this time in my life. I started with of course O (Lionel) gauge with my Dad and shrunk down to HO and now N scale. N Scale allows me to fit quite a bit onto a 4 x 7 layout. Z scale is way too small to even see what's going on and to place people and other objects. Absolutely a blast at any scale.

 

I thought that would be a pretty cool trip for an anniversary. Ride the rails through 3 national parks and spend a day in San Francisco. But the more I looked into it the less appealing it became. The reviews were what talked me out of it. Some reviews can be petty and weird, but when they just keep saying the same things over and over it becomes clear this is a very real experience with this. If you do decide to take this trip, let us know your experiences and what you did and didn't like about it. If you wanna.

 

I'm confused. It is all about the hot chick?? That is a car, right?

 

About 6 years ago I was looking into a train excursion in Upper Peninsula Michigan where you book a fully loaded caboose (sleeper, kitchen, bath). Then an engine hauls you out into the deep woods and drops your caboose there on a spur line for the length of your stay with no one around for miles. You can get equipped for hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, relaxing, drinking, star gazing etc. It wasn't cheap but wasn't overly expensive either. Then Covid hit and my brothers lost interest. Sounded great.

 

No where to plug in your Strat?

 

Had to be Memphis

 

Casey Jones?

 

Maybe. I can't remember. I just know it was from Chicago to Tennessee, and then a few days later back to Chicago.