Warbird Information Exchange

I just remembered - Orange Empire Railway Museum has these two ex-USAF switch engines, per their website:

http://www.oerm.org/pages/other_railroads.htm

USAF 7441 - 45-Ton Switcher - built by GE in 1942 - from March AFB
USAF 8580 - B-B-90/90 - built by GE in 1944 - from Norton AFB

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Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Chris,

The Heart of Dixie Museum USAF engine may have been a B-B-90/90 like the one you just linked to. I had no idea that style engine was built during WWII!

Scott

The National Transportation Museum, in St. Louis, MO yesterday.

There are two or three shots of U.S. Army engines/















































Saludos,


Tulio

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Will the previous owner has pics of this double cabin sample

GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Press "1" for English.
Press "2" to disconnect until you have learned to speak English.

Sooooo, how am I going to know to press 1 or 2, if I do not speak English????

Not exactly an abandoned train but one of my favorites that I wish I could of seen or ridden on. Take one Budd railcar, add two J47's off a B-36, find a long straight section of track, and you have 183.681 MPH. YEEHAW!



Les

I was just thinking about that. Central also tried the J47s as a snow melter (lack of proper term escapes me).

I remember a great train museum in Green Bay when I was a kid. I remember that everything was pretty rusty though, can't imagine what's still left!

http://www.nationalrrmuseum.org/en-us/default.aspx[/quote]

Actually the museum in Green Bay has built a nice indoor area where the Big Boy along with several others is on display now. Not rusting away anymore. Very nice place to visit.

I will have to see if I have any images from trips to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village her in Dearborn.

Definitely some interesting stuff for train lovers.

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Good contributions, all!

Tulio, you didn't happen to get any more photos of the Zephyr, did you? I've always thought that was a Buck Rogers looking design, even with the ugly add-on light assembly.

Scott

Yes, please. More Zephyr pics!

I kinda like the school bus lookin' train. Of course, if it were my school bus train, it'd be a short one.

Gary

D&H

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I was into trains long before anything else, and have been a NRHS member since 1984. My biggest love is of the old 3 foot line, the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina, AKA, "The Tweetsie."
I have a portfolio of RR pix here:
http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/sh ... puser/4329
Here are some of my favorite shots over the past few years:
Abandoned:


Me doing a "train robbery" event at a tourist RR last year:

Grand Canyon:

4449/844:

Reading 2100 on the first test run of the ill-fated dinner train in Tacoma:

3985:


4449 at various places:



Jamestown, CA:

Other shots:


My favorite shot, the former ET&WNC grade through the Die River Gorge near Hampton, TN. I later found a photo from the 30s taken from the exact same sport. I put the train from that photo and the cliff face (to show it matched exactly) into my shot. I couldn't have planned this better if I'd been standing there with the original shot in my hands as a guide!

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Don't know if they still do it, but the Illinois Rail Museum used to have at least one evening a month that you could pay a fee and run one of three locos on their private track. I think it was something like 150$ for 15-20 minuets of time on either a diesel switcher, a F9 road loco or one of the smaller steam units. Never got a chance to get over there on the scheduled days when we lived up there.

One of the guys that I used to work with up there was really into large scale live steam and diesel locos. We were talking about building up a 7 1/2" scale of the UP turbine locos. Plans were to power it with a turbine APU and electric drives like the real thing. Toughest thing was going to be designing a muffler for it so that you didn't have to wear headsets to be with a couple of hundred feet of it.

Guys,

I have these two shots, and no more; the weather was getting crappy, and I did not have any filters to work with, to at least make the skies look less uniformly gray.






Saludos,


Tulio

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Why take the best part of life out of your life, when you can have life with the best part of your life in your life?

I am one of them 'futbol' people.

Will the previous owner has pics of this double cabin sample

GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Press "1" for English.
Press "2" to disconnect until you have learned to speak English.

Sooooo, how am I going to know to press 1 or 2, if I do not speak English????

Tulio,

Thanks for the Zephyr stuff. I googled the Zephyr history this morning, and it seems that most of the rolling stock has survived all these years. It is interesting that they survived mass-scrapping during early WWII because of their stainless steel construction, while their UP competitor was smelted down for the aluminum. It's better looking than the M-10000 anyway!

Scott