Do you have Train Day Plans?

Will see you there

 

Attending the National Train Day activities at Chicago's Union Station with my son. They are supposed to have a lot of private owner passenger cars there that we want to see.

 

Art

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@SJC,

 

I love that picture.  What is the name of your group?  Do they have a website?

Take my son to baseball, mow the lawn, shop for mother's day, then get ready for Rangers vs. Caps Game 7 - Unfortunately no trains for me today.

My "train day" plans consist of getting all the errands and chores done this morning and then having an afternoon upstairs in my train room completely unfettered by the demands of any other human being in this household!

That's a beautiful photo Scott - Your 'new' K-Line Hudson I must presume?

Already celebrated this morning, watching my trains run in the garage 'til the sweet smell of Mega Steam Christmas Tree scent filled the air!!  

 

- Mike

 

PS  I echo c.sam's comment...that is a nice photo!

Absolutely!

The Detroit 3 railers are getting together tonight to run some trains. Its going to be a Hoot! (no pun intended)

 

 

I just got back from teaching martial arts, and now I get to go cut the lawn. Checking the forum is about the extent of train stuff I get to do today.

Hopefully Mom will let me run trains tomorrow...

Yes. I mowed the yard, put lawn furniture out, and coached a baseball game. Now we are heading out to a cookout.

I had planned to visit Philly's 30th Street Station today and join in with the festivities planned at that site and at one point, incredibly enough, I had actually convinced my wife to join me.  The plan was to take the PATCO High Speed Line from South Jersey to Center City Philadelphia and then hop onto the Elevated line and take it to the 30th Street Station.  A round trip train ride and a chance to walk the hallowed halls of the 30th Street Station seemed like a great way to spend National Train Day.  Unfortunately, when my lovely spouse awakened this morning and saw the beautiful weather outside she thought a ride to Cape May and a nice long stroll through South Jersey's nicest beach resort would be better way to kick off Mother's Day weekend.   I couldn't deny her so I ordered some Tinplate from SideTrack hobbies instead before we left.  

Went to the TCA Museum and PRR Museum in Strasburg.  Beautiful day here.

I was at the Virginia Museum of Transportion. Mr. Smith I was gong to intoduce my self to you today but turned to look at somthing and I turned back around you were gone. 

I was at Greenfield Village running trains on the Glancy layout for the "Day out with Thomas" festivities this afternoon.  I was also busy checking out their 1914 Michigan Central steam crane (steam courtesy of their 1873 Mason Bogie "Torch Lake") operating.  First time I saw it operating since it was getting steam from their 1913 Baldwin 0-6-0 #8 back in 1998 (also the last time #8 was under steam)

 

It was a fun day of playing trains... 

Thanks!  Hopefully I will be able to visit the next time I come to MD.

I visited Philadephia 30th Street Station like the past several years. The traffic was down this year and also the activities "without what seemed to be much of a focal point". The things that seemed to be different was about half the rail equipment was different.

Dover Harbor was at Philadelphia a couple of years ago, and had 1700+ people go through. Saturday's count was 2384. Of course, that may or may not reflect the total attendance.  Sometimes the long lines keep some folks away from the train displays.

I'll put some photos in the "Real Trains" section later tonight.

 

BandoB

BANDOB your numbers are very interseting the line upstairs was shortter this year than years past and kept moving, in years past the line was longer with waiting periods, and a second line for those that had reserved times to go see the equipment (most likely causing the waiting periods); there were no reserved times this year. There seemed to be less people everywhere this year. The long lines were those riding regular Amtrak trains.

I hear National Train Day is bypassing Portland, Oregon this year.

Home of the SP4449 and SPS700, junctions of the UP, BNSF and home of Light Rail.

I must have missed something ...

For NTD, I went to Grand Central.

 

 

Enjoy!

~Jeffrey

Redball notes how things seemed less crowded, yet Dover Harbor's visitation numbers in Philadelphia increased compared to two years ago. I wasn't there last time, but I heard that the Dover Harbor was a major bottleneck for people touring the displays. I think it may have been in a different position, and its long hallway past the bedrooms jammed up as people were able to go in and out of the rooms. This year, there were several changes. First, "Keep the Line Moving" was a caveat to all the volunteers. Then, we roped off the two rooms open for display, so people could look in but not wander in (and thus linger). Besides, we had real Pullman blankets on the beds. We were to give short answers, and for people who wanted more details, we'd try to take them out of the line of traffic. We used the kitchen for that, as well as the vestibule side where I was standing with the counter. Also, someone might on occasion go out on the platform for further discussion. We did not want to cut people short, but tried to find ways to accomodate the questions while keeping the line moving. Perhaps we were successful. If numbers were down, that certainly helped as well. Here's one view of people going through the car. I will have many more photos from the day in Philadelphia over in the Real Trains forum.           B&OBill