Well San Jose yesterday. I'm quite impressed with Cal Trains. half hour schedules off peak and several options (express, limited etc). On the Cal Zephyr to Denver today. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Union Pacific, don't delay my train!!!!
I thought you'd be glad to have your train delayed,esp. whilst on the CZ! How about posting some pic's here Sten??
Welll Jason,, nothing sucksmore than turning up 5hrslate (after stopping for a smoke brealk)it would have meant turning p in Denver at midnight. Just to disappoint ou more , we travelled via boring flat Wyoming, bypassing the rockies duetotrackwork sorry if this is hard to read,but I'musing one of those hotelinternet via the television jobs and it sucks!!
Oh no,no pic's then.Hows the shopping budget holding up?anymore hobby shops on the list?apart from Caboose hobbies of course.
not unless that includes pics of Green River Wyoming. Had a full on day today. Started at Caboose Hobbies, only spent $260 which considering...... it ain't that much but I didn't see any loco's I wanted. SO I bought some Trainworx hoppers, a bunch of Atlas stuff, intermountain and Red Caboose, plus decals. After that we headed out to Golden to the train museum, took a bunch of pics of pretty much all their stuff. I could only find Goose 2 and 6 and both were being restored. We then headed to Forney to the transportation museum to see the big boy. WHY do museums fail to light the subject and give you sufficient room to shoot the object???. I've already got shots of a big boy from Scranton in 2000 but my old man was annoyed as that was the only one he'll see. Weather has been great although a change is forcasted for tomorrow ( Going to Royal Gorge tomorrow) and maybe some snow for Monday. Monday night to Chicago and last hobby shop Des Plaines Hobbies, as I want to pick up a C&NW sleeper they have just released.
What do I miss...... X-box DVD player and TV driving and walking on the correct side of the road/footpath 1 and 2 dollar coins and plastic money in different colours that is easily distinguishable and easy to feed into a machine not having to tip someone for doing their job enclosed sewers that do not give of a sh*t smell on every corner (ESP Philly ) and most important working the train!!!
Oh, we have plastic money that is very easy to feed machines with. Master Card, Visa, American Express etc.. Every now and then we have to obtain some of that flimsy paper stuff so we just put our plastic in a machine that spits out $20 food coupons. Then when redeeming those we usually obtain a pocket full of coins as change.
forgot to add slushy snow in Denver at the moment but alot heavier further west. not sticking to the ground where I am but alot of cars driving past the hotel are rolling snowballs. had a great day yesterday on the Royal Gorge... just had to do it....... in the cab of the ex C&NW F7's !!!!! awesome!!!!! a must do for anyone who can get down there. after the trip headed up to the bridge to look down upon it and saw someone plunge to their death....... but he had a rubber band attached to his ankles so he survived. off to Chicago tonight on the Zephyr, few things planned Des Plaines Hobbies I did this trip last time so I might do it again. South Shore to Hammond - CSX on other side of car park, back to jcnt (can't remember name of station) Met Electric to Blue Island - Iowa Interstate if your lucky, Metra to Joliet then back to Chicago. BNSF racetrack might check out up north for some red stuff (CP/CN) we'll see what happens!!!
arrived in Chicago this arvo, train was 1hr late, but not too bad. alot of snow to the east of Denver. managed to see but missed shooting a triple header D&RGW train and only one was patched doh!!! lost my CityRail beenie. not happy, some SOB is walking around Denver wearing it not knowing what it is.
It's not a beenie Sten but an old fettlers wide brim hat,had the day-glo orange strip band & all,you can have that if ya want?
I don't care, I didn't pay for it. All off New South Wales did when they paid their taxes, so I'll just get another one, just annoying, misplaced it, walked out, came back a short time later and gone in less than a few minutes.
Jason, you now have a Homicide T shirt, arrived just a short while ago in Flagstaff Az off the SW Chief - only train that Amtrak can run on time. bust a hose last night just out off Ft Madison Iowa, so that was cool. Grand Canyon tomorrow then onto LA and home.
WOOT!! Thanks bloke,dunno 'bout you but that was the high-light of the trip for me..... Any more hobby shops on the "to-do" list? Also I have "aquired" a bunch of those yucky green & yellow (CN&W) inter mntn covered hoppers if you want them/swap?
thought you would like that, got myself another one Crime Lab, "If the body doesn't walk, we'll bring the chalk" got 2 Atlas PFE reefers (yellow not orange - SP logos) if your interested, I bought them then forgot what colour they were supposed to be..... arrived in LA this morning just over 2hrs late.... bonus this time, as the decent of Cajon was in daylight....... although abit overcast. delay attributed to broken down train. also while on the Grand Canyon RR, passing their shops I noticed 2 Amtrak F59PHI's attached to some demotored CalTrain RDC's, one would assume that they were used to ferry the cars from San Fran to Williams and to add to it they were attached to the front of my train for the trip home. so for a lashup we had 2 F59's and 3 P42's who Hoo!!!!! passed a tonne of freights mainly intermodal. - alot of swoosh logos around, on cars, locos, intermodal wells and just to boot Metra Bi-levels. seems a choice has been made and they changeover will be a quick one. heading to Tehachapi tomorrow, got to go and hire a car. (had a Pontiac G6 - sweeeet ride!! ) head home on Friday after some 19,000miles of travel in 7 weeks, I'm exhausted and only have 4 days to rest before back to the grindstone.
last day in LA. Americans can't drive!!!!! put 400 miles on a brand new Chevy in 2 days had fun although scary at times...... saw Tehachapi..... with no trains.... so drove to Cajon and got a few there, plus a steel train and a local switching at Oro Grand. head home tonight, can't wait to get back to civilisation. Jason have got 3 Red Caboose PFE reefers if your interested.... will see the Sydney crew when I get back. the end of the trip.
ps... I would once again like to pass my thanks to fellow trainboard member Flash Blackman and his family for their hospitality during my brief stay in San Antonio.
