trains on my mind...

[kinzel]

So. Bored?

Want to travel?

We'd love to make a trip like by private rail car... Who knows, maybe on the way to some convention...

speaking of travel, off to the PO with hope in my heart.

Oh yeah... about those trains... more to look at:

Yes, this is one I've showed folks before... but they are worth looking at!


and for the real geeks:
Wouldn't these be fun? Makes me want to buy a 5 mile stretch of to-be-abandoned rail...

Comments

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

GEEEEEKKK!!!!

*resembles muchly*

I've managed to miss riding in the little gas powered cars, although I've ridden coasters...one of the local tourist RRs has a long sustained downgrade through a wooded canyon...with a single road crossing (which our little handcar triggered, heee!) and once upon a time we would go down and do a few laps (van shuttle back up).

Then I skip to a trolley flatcar, being used for clearance testing in and out of the Muni subway (Work car C-1 (http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/fleet/antique/c1/index.html)), only without sides, I spend the day sitting in a chair in the back, making sure the pole stayed on the correct overhead, especially in the subway where the overhead isn't pole compatible.

Oh, wait! The Western Railway Museum has a single truck trolley scooter (think of the movie Malcolm), only without the facade. I got to operate that one.

[od-mind.livejournal.com]

About 10 years ago, my wife and I took a (Not Cheap) "land cruise" called "Montana by Private Rail". There were hotel stays at Glacier National Park (Glacier Park Lodge (http://www.nationalparkreservations.com/glacier_parklodge.htm)), Yellowstone National Park (the Lake Yellowstone Hotel (http://www.yellowstoneparknet.com/lake_village_area/lake_yellowstone_hotel.php), not the Lodge), and in Billings, MT at the end. Every other night was spent on board the train, which was a refurbished private train that some mining baron had owned. There were a few side expeditions by bus (including the National Parks).

Highlights: the food was fabulous, the views were spectacular (I love observation cars), the train itself was a lot of fun.

Lowlights: communal shower down the passageway (which was actually preferable to the contortionism endured by the poor suckers who paid extra for the 'privilege' of showering in their cabins' facilities).

All in all, highly recommended.

[tardis1963.livejournal.com]

Just remember that owning a private rail car involves a lot of work:
http://www.rypn.org/RyPN/articles/viewarchivearticles.asp?filename=041128204218.txt

Matt

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not planning on owning a private car unless we win the lottery or Mr. Lucas calls wanting to use our stories for a TV series or something. I'm sure they're a lot of work. So sure that I've even noted the name and address of a private chef in case I ever get to rent one for myself...

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

A private train car? Sounds good, especially if it's the one that Artemus Gordon and James West used when they were fighting those ennemies of Democracy, Michael Dun and Richard Kiel.

[filkferengi]

All this talk of private train[car]s makes me want to reread _Convivial Codfish_ by Charlotte MacLeod.