RAILROADS IN PHOTOS AND PAINTING

If you wanna see what it's like to drive a Japanese train, try this site.
http://www.realrailway.com/en/ikebukuro/simulator.html

That is sooo wicked cool!

I overran 3 times and came in 7 seconds early once. Not easy being a motorman.

Bookmarked it. Will practice and play it. Perhaps even download the game even though it's in Japanese only.

<<HUGS>> to panzade for such an introduction to a wonderful new online addiction!

Great stuff folks. We older folks don't play those games as well as the younger people. But, we were young once also.

Here's a pic of our "Outfit Car" during a winter in W Texas.




Here's a shot of my Dad and the burro crane he ran with me standing in front of him and one of my brothers.

I'm glad I'm not the only dangerous one driving the train. I wonder if you can derail the train in the simulator?

Knowing you I'd say you'd be the first to try

Another shot of the crane loading equipment so they can clear the "Main Line" and let a train go by - then, back to the spot and back to work.

I see these photos and I think about the harsh environment you grew up in compared to mine.But I guess it was all in a day's living.

Hi panz, not really a harsh environment at all - we moved a lot - in fact I didn't finish a year at any school - we moved to a different town about every month or two. Had to make friends fast - and, here's the kicker, they all wanted to come to my home and play. Grin

This was my "girlfriend" in Baird, TX




We did have a few exciting times though - like this day, our home and the water car is on the GROUND!! It broke loose of the switching engine and ran off the end of the siding rails. Nothing was damaged and they pulled the cars back onto the rails.

"The City of New Orleans" was written and frequently performed by Steve Goodman.



The City of New Orleans itself was a passenger train run by the Illinois Central between Chicago and New Orleans. There's now an Amtrak train with the same route and name.

Hey, that was good, Joe! Thank you.
And now I know who actually wrote it.
(I may have to post the Arlo version, so's we can compare them all! )

These are wonderful old photographs, danon. Finding them very interesting. Thanks.

There're also versions by Johny Cash, John Denver, and The Seldom Scene.

and the highwaymen...





(i was gonna make a deer noise, but I dint want you to pull a rib again)

Great thread! I'm enjoying the photos, the paintings, the music, the memories. Niiiice.

This is a pretty amazing photograph, too, Letty. (I'm wondering what happened to derail the train. It must have been a pretty significant event in that little town!)



We seem to have quite a few offspring of railway folk on this thread. My father's first job (in the 1950s, after migrating to Oz) was on the railways. But as a worker. Building & extending the rail lines as part of a huge post-war development program in Oz. The railway went smack through the little country town we first settled in.

Oh I think we should post them all here, farmer!

My own railroad image is the one by Turner:



The title is Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway. Turner painted it in 1844.

Here's a wreck close to our home in W TX.



I don't know what that black object is!!!