Speaking Of Trains …
Westbound at Jessup, Nevada – July 9, 2024
You might want to turn the volume up … but you might want to turn it down first.
Plenty more where this comes from … one of my hobbies is building model RR dioramas.
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Yes trains. One of my earliest memories is going with my parents to Portland Union Station to meet mom’s parents getting off the train from Iowa. I just realized as I write this, I have never lived more than a quarter mile from a railroad. Every day the local goes past my house with several carloads of lumber. One favorite memory is standing by the tracks with my then 2 year old son as eastbound SP&S 700 came blasting out of tunnel no. 1 on the north bank of the Columbia. More memories; 30 days with a Eurail Pass riding through Germany, Austria, Scandanavia, and France with my brother in 1984. A trip on the Pioneer with my future wife to meet her family in Indiana and 3 round trips on the Empire builder with children to vist family. Want an adventure, take the train from Chicago to Oregon via California with a 4, 6 and 8 year old. I almost got enough of trains though when I had to sleep in my semi truck next to the tracks at the flour mill in Cheney or Spokane, Washington.
The locomotive in that video looks like a “Big Boy” similar to the MTH Big Boy in my Rail King Christmas 2000 train.
That’s what it is: UP 4014. Special run – Cheyenne-Sacramento, summer 2024. Western half of transcontinental route – over former CPRR (SP) (eastbound) and WP lines (westbound) west of Ogden. This video was on former WP route just outside former town of Jessup.
OK, that’s why the diesel loco was in there. I remember reading last year that because of all the time-effort-money that was spent on the restoration they didn’t want to chance breaking it so they used a diesel (I thought the article said 2 diesels) to help out.
Diesels have the equipment to trigger gate crossings and traffic control systems.