Chaski Railfan

I have read several accounts of the golden spike ceremony, many of which mistakenly identify the location as Promontory Point, and Promontory Peak, as well as Promontory Summit. Some of those accounts have differing descriptions of the event, from Stanford actually hitting the spike to the telegraph...

Contrary to what I was taught in school in the 1950's and 60's the Golden Spike was NOT driven at "Promontory Point". It was at "Promontory Summit". If you look at a map of Utah (or the vicinity) you will see the Great Salt Lake, there is a peninsula that juts into the lake from ...

Mark: You obviously have not learned how to do things in a ham-handed way, and not broken enough new parts to warn them off of you.

I m sure the prices are what the market will bear... if they have actually sold out, then the market sure did bear it!

How many dome seats are there, anyway? How many passengers got a free seat (CEO, VP's, etc.)? What about Coach seats?

I guess there is some value to riding IN a car pulled by a steam locomotive, but you can't see the locomotive from the inside of a car behind it. Steam is to be SEEN! If I had that kind of money, I'd hire a helicopter to fly me beside the engine while it was running... unfortunately, that would caus...

Well... you can't say I didn't warn you that I'd expound on my cogitations later. It do seem to be later now. As I stated earlier, "Measure twice, cut once" as an adage is somewhat incomplete in actual practice. Thus I found it necessary to make an addition to it... "Then buy another ...

Mark D wrote:Knowing better, I still like to switch that old adage to; Measure once, then cut to fit.
Mark D.

No, no, no... it is "Measure twice, cut once, and buy another board."

Well... okay, I'll add something to the board, but I am sort of off topic. Your mention of nobody knowing how to use a tape measure reminded me of this... There is an adage (I assume an old one) that I used to hear a lot on a PBS TV show... "Measure twice, cut once." What does that mean to...

I'll further nitpick... Select one of the images where you can manually rotate the image so you can compare the two sides. On one side the drive pin on the main wheels is at about the 5 o'clock position, turn the image around to see the other side and the drive pin is at the 7 o'clock position (reme...

Winter steam, with its spectacular plumes of steam puffing from the seals, the open cylinder valves and up the stack, to all the fans that have retired to the luxury hovel to sip hot-toddies by the fireside, is well worth the price of admission... but not so much so for the poor hapless chap that ha...

I am assuming then that it is parked off to the right, just outside of the camera's view. Besides, it is so dark and the camera resolution so poor that I doubt if anyone could tell that you are napping in the cab, but I suppose if you were to be lying on the side rods, someone might notice you and c...

Ah HA! I misread the info on the 261 site... I thought the train went west of the depot to the "North Pole". So the photos in this thread (and the ones I sent to you, Mark, in the e-mail) are when the train is at the "North Pole". I was thinking it went the other way and could be...

The "elves" I saw were along side the train at the east end where they park at the depot. Some were carrying 'protest' signs and two others had sticks with some sort of floppy object on the top end and they were walking along side the train moving the top of the post up to the windows and ...

On the web cam, I see some "elves" (I assume) carrying signs along side the first passenger car when it is parked there... what do the signs say?

Don't click on the title... You should be seeing a window below where Milhouse wrote "Ed takes us on a tour of the work on the front frame." In that window it says: "Watch on YouTube" and a button below that, that has the same words in it. Click on that button to go to YouTube to...