Chaski Railfan

I'd say you're gettin' old, Mark, but if you are still stuck behind (instead of leading) the slow drivers then you ain't that old enough yet to know to slow down in bad weather. I posted the following on another web site and feel like sharing it here... ----------------------- I have turkey 3 or 4 t...

Had an early lunch out with family... A happy day to be sure. Hope you have a happy Thanksgiving too.

"MORE COOL THAN TRAINS"??????? Go wash your mouth out with some steam oil. My problem is that my left ear hears low frequencies better than high, and my right ear hears high frequencies better than low. Makes it very difficult to find something in the sky because I can't locate it by sound...

My grandfather (a farmer) used to be able to tell the weather by train sounds. If he could hear the train whistle (yes, steam whistle) as the train crossed "Rush Creek" then it was going to rain the next day. As for you -- well... you have trains in your blood, thus you can hear them. Your...

Water flowing down a river is natural, but transporting it from one aquafer to another is different. Remember the reversal of the Chicago River by building a canal to the Mississippi river? Now there is an electrified net across the river to keep a fish indigenes to the Mississippi from reaching Lak...

There federal and state laws and treaties (with Canada) about water usage and how much can be taken from or diverted from the lakes. There is also a concern with pollution control and biological contamination that could occur transporting just ground water without treatment of some sort.

Nobody here but us chickens! Cars are too dirty... I'd rather work on a Steam Locomotive. But, you and my son should get together... he has swapped a few engines in cars. He lives in North Dakota and sends all his weather your way (actually he sends it toward his brother who lives north of the Mini-...

I've been out waiting for the mother ship to take me home, but I still log-in every day to see whutz happinin.

That's it! Thanks Tom C. 40°28'15.24"N, 80° 3'25.54"W Looks like it is on the property of "AGF Company, a division of Perl Enterprises Inc.", Cleaning products Supplier, 101 Munson Ave. -- according to the clicking on the little square icon on Google Earth. It is barely visible f...

Anyone have a close approximation of just where this engine presently resides? (Nearby streets, lat/lon, etc.) I have followed several tracks through McKees Rocks PA but cannot find an engine beside any tracks (not that it is that easy to recognize a steamer from the top... until someone points it o...

Google Earth shows a container transload site that seems to have taken the Railyard (I see a sign in the Street View that I think reads "Empty Container Depot". I doubt if any of the land is RR owned.

WHOOPS... I now see that the top of the sign reads, "Canadian Pacific Railway".

Doesn't Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) cure stuff like this?

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.