The train thread

• redfalcon

  

  
  BC Rail's Whistler to Vancouver route.
  
  
  A high speed passenger train crosses over a slow moving freight near Barcelona Spain.
  
  
  The Union Pacific main line through Wyoming, the original trans-continental railroad route.
  
  
  The historic Cheyenne depot. It is used as a museum, but still receives the occasional passenger excursion, and was a regular stop for Amtrak until the line was cut in 1997.
  
  
  A Union Pacific passenger train crossing the Dale Creek bridge outside of Laramie, Wyoming, sometime between 1877-1901. When built, the bridge was made of wood and was the largest railroad bridge in the world. Originally measuring 135 feet tall and 650 long, the bridge was built to cross a small creek that you could easily step over. The first wooden tressle was built in three weeks and trains had to cross at 2 miles an hour, less they be blown off by the strong Wyoming winds. The metal tressel was constructed in the 1870s, and it remained until 1901, when the railroad was rerouted through tunnels just to the south. You can still see and hear the trains from the site of the bridge. It was torn down in 1901, but the approaches, abutments, and foundations remain.
• Society

  I was hoping for a different route on this thread.
• Al Capone

  Good thread falcon. I grew up next to railroad tracks and always been fascinated with trains.
  One of my dreams was to be a train engineer but it never worked out.
• Con_Alma

  Beautiful countryside.
  
  Nice pictures.
• kritzell

  

  Thanks for something different.
• rookie_j70

  

  
• darbypitcher22

  

  cool thread. Up at school we have a lot of active tracks that pass through town near the edge of campus that you can hear at night
• kritzell

  

  Remember the train vs tornado...
  
  
  
• dwccrew

  

  Al Capone wrote: Good thread falcon. I grew up next to railroad tracks and always been fascinated with trains.
  One of my dreams was to be a train engineer but it never worked out.

  I was a conductor for Norfolk Southern before I was laid off last year. The job was good pay and benefits, but the hours sucked man.
• Al Capone

  Nothing like sitting on the porch at night listening to a train come up the tracks. We used to put coins on the rails and let the trains run over them. It flattens them out to about 5 times their normal size.
• Angel

  Really like the 1st pic.
• redfalcon

  

  That video of the train and tornado is SICK!
  
  
  Along the Bow River in the Canadian Rockies