That Time I Drove A Steam Locomotive (The 2472)
When the Southern Pacific 2472 steam engine was still at Hunter’s Point railyard in San Francisco, I had the opportunity to be engineer for a few moments as part of …
Category: Railroads
Osgood Bradley Coach
I recently acquired and assembled an old Eastern Car Works kit of an Osgood-Bradley coach. I was reminded of these coaches when Rapido recently produced them in their line. However, …
Growing Up With Model Trains
Grew up with trains. Not the real kind, though. Not at first. There’s a photo of me at age one, playing with a push train on the floor. Brio-style. Plastic …
Is it a bus or a streetcar?
I have to admit, it bugs me when people call a streetcar a bus. Don’t they know the difference? Rubber tires versus steel wheels. It’s not that hard. But I …
Rocky Mountaineer Train – Rockies to the Red Rocks
In September 2022 Joyce and I took an amazing trip on the Rocky Mountaineer. It traveled from Denver to Moab through some of the most spectacular scenery on the old …
Ferry Slip Headwork Built from Coffee Stirrers
In this 4 minute video I show how I built a ferry slip headwork for my Redwoods and Pacific Railroad. Even though the tracks of the ferry slip end at a …
Army Hospital Trains at Crissy Field
In the summer I go fishing at Crissy Field at least once a week and I often think about some of the fascinating history of the field. During WWII the …
Drawing PCCs As A Kid
There are a few things I wish I still had from my childhood. Or at least a picture of them. One of those is a series of drawings I did …
That Last Time I Rode Caltrain
I’m actually kidding! Until a few days ago, I had never ridden Caltrain. OK, I did ride the Penisula rails twice, but both times were behind the venerable Southern Pacific …
One of my first websites
Back in 1996 I built the website for the Golden Gate Railroad Museum (GGRM) and I just found one of the pages on Archive.org. It’s essentially all text, no design, …
U.P. 844 videos for April 20, 2009, Sacramento to Oakland
Newcastle Tunnel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z3Nd3CmJso Yolo Causeway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8LZDA5fUUw Davis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFcB4gPwLEg Elmira Junction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLiMwnFIgqY Martinez: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysC4fZALNVg Richmond: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXd71-Sr9pc Emeryville: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFSD7cMUVm0
Brand new steam engine built in Britain
This is totally cool… a brand new steam engine was just completed in Britain and is undergoing testing. They used parts fabricated all around the world since the skills of …