June 28th at 8:00 pm U.S.A. Central Time on the History Channel is sheduled to air "Railroad Bone Yard". It covers the scrap yards across the U.S. that salvage used and wrecked locomotives and rolling stock. Check your schedules !!! Enjoy !!! Comment !!!
If things work out according to plan, it should rerun at 11:00 PM EDT. If it does, this is just enough time to get back to my motel room to watch it. SHould be better than a "Mythbusters" rerun......and I LIKE that show.
Here's the complete schedule for Boneyard: Railroads Thursday, June 28 (8 pm central/9 pm eastern) Friday, June 29 (12 am central/1 am eastern) Sunday, July 01 (10 pm central/11 pm eastern) Monday, July 02 (2 am central/3 am eastern) Friscobob, hope one of he above suits your schedule. verse
Watash ,I wish I could watch..But I still have standard TV..Dang!May be heartbreaking anyway...Hey,I guess when TV goes internet it'll be downloadable,too...
Not a bad show. Well worth watching. Would be very good for someone new to the RR enthusiast hobbies. A couple of faux pas near it's end. During the RARUS/BA&P portion. When the speaker seemed to be indicating that transition for railroads in general, steam to diesel, came during 1949. (Not just for the diesel behind him.) Of course this is not true. And also when he indicated that BA&P changed from steam to diesel in 1949. Again, not true. He forgot those many decades in between steam and diesel. When the BA&P was purely electrified. 1913 to 1967. Boxcab E50
RR Boneyard The program was in general quite good. As mentioned there were some errors. The BA&P was electrified for a time. Also the first EMD diesels came out in the late 1930's not 1949. The GP-7 came out in 1949 though as did the F-3. Steam lasted until the late 1950's on most roads. Santa Fe closed out steam a bit earlier in the desert areas with F and GP units. A great part of the program was the segment on Beach Grove and the Amtrak shops.
I guess I thought more detail would have been nice. I really did like the portion about the Pueblo, CO facility...did not know it existed!! The refurbished car section was nice...a lot of talent in thast shop! Kind of sad watching those engines get torn up though. Seems like the never ending cycle of tearing it down because its only worth scrap then 50 years later regretting that they are all gone! Anyway, my 2 cents worth. John
My favorite was them talking up the P42 with pictures of F59PHIs in the background. That was choice. I missed the first portion of it which sucked.
It was good but I did not like the parts when they tore apart those locos and that hopper . It was hard to watch at times on mythbusters they did a train myth that a passing train at high speeds can suck you under if you stand too close to it at a station just wanted to let you know
I've seen this episode. Was glad to watch them prove to the public, what I already knew. It's a myth. Boxcab E50
Too bad I'm too cheap to buy cable....only two stations off of the antenna. And their not ESPN and the History Channel......dang it.
Thanks Watash, for alerting me to the show. I particularly liked the first part about what they are doing and have been doing with old ties and rails. The Pueblo facility was also very interesting. Seeing a locomotive chopped up for scrap does not affect me as much as seeing what they did with all the B58s etc in Tucson, but then, even 57 Chevy's wear out, right? Joe
I just wish they would drop off a Big Boy in my front yard! I promise to scrap it out for them after awhile. In the mean time it sure would make a nice ornament, and the neighbor kids on both sides could enjoy playing 'Train' on it too. (I would sleep in the cab!)
Are you guys getting any notices after you have posted, or some else does? I am not receiving any anymore. ???
