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Jerry Barnes
1st Class Member
Lexington, NE
Conductor
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 | | 09/22/2008 3:38 PM |
| Challenger stopped in Cozad, NE for maintenance. I shot a little video of it moving out. This still is of it coming in. Jerry
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| livesteam5629
1st Class Member
Elkton, MD
Foreman
Posts:128
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| | 09/22/2008 4:05 PM |
| Dadgumit Jerry! You have all the luck. Thanks for posting. Gosh that bought back memories. Challangers in Grand Island in the mid 50's. Big Boys going through Columbus. Did I get to see it? Very little. Couldn't afford the money for film or gas at 35 cents a gallon. I was still in High School and generally flat broke. Thanks again. Just wish BNSF could see fit to bring back a 5600 (4-8-4) or one of the 4000 class Hudsons. Sigh.
Noel
PS Liked the early morning run of the Pioneer Zephyr. It sat at the Lincoln station when I started at the U of N in 59. Pictures....nah! Not me. Another sigh.
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| Jerry Barnes
1st Class Member
Lexington, NE
Conductor
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| | 09/23/2008 4:09 PM |
| Hi NOel,
Just noticed, on the Challenger video, you can click on a higher quality viewing, I uploaded it at a pretty high resolution.
I know what you mean about lost opportunities. I was in Farmington, NM, when the narrow gauge was still there, but I was in 8th grade! Then, in 9th grade in Cheyenne and I think some steam was still going on Sherman Hill, that would have been 1959? Wife remembers playing in the cinder piles, in the winter, near her house in southern Cheyenne. Jerry | |
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| Terl
Colorado
Brakeman
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| | 09/23/2008 5:32 PM |
| Jerry
Thanks for the pics. Yes 1959 was the last year for working steam on the UP.
Noel
I think that some guys in Washington or Oregon fixed up a CB&Q 4-8-4 but for some reason were never allowed to run it on the mainline.
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| leonpete
1st Class Member
Holstein, IA.
Foreman
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| | 09/24/2008 1:59 PM |
| Jerry
Thanks for posting the video of the #3985. Great!! | |
THE B&L RAILROAD
HOLSTEIN, IA.
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