THREE EPISODES OF "TRICKED OUT TRAINS" TONIGHT

I watched it for 10 minutes and had to turn it off.  The information is good but the extremely quick editing was making me nauseous.

Watching and recording it now. The cars are amazing. Love that 20th century observation.

The CZ passenger cars look incredible. That guy has restored 3 of them. 

AMEN!

I often wonder if the idiots that produce these shows ever actually sit down and WATCH them. How are you supposed to appreciate the lavish interior of an old railcar when the producer has decided that he will not show a scene longer than a half-second!

Absolutely horrible and totally unwatchable. I would fire the entire crew.

ChrisD, thanks for the info.  Original post edited to include the info.

Carl

In Utah, it's 196 on dish. 8 pm until 1 am Monday.

DRY, thanks for the Dish info; original post edited.

As pointed out in this TV show, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, planned parts of WWII from this Pullman Car. If you love Railroad History, this is a TV program for you.

Pingman, you are welcome.  I had to come down to the cave to watch it after diner.  The wife, like others have stated, can't handle the rapid scene changes, lol.

It was nice to see all the passenger cars that have been saved.

 The cars are beautiful and well preserve. Nice to see them still used.

 Wish I had the money to save some of the old cars I see on the web for sale to restore.

  I Have the skills to do it but not the cash to do it. It is nice to dream about doing that.

   Great show love the NYC 20th century limited and the story behind saving it.

The owner demands that every detail be authentic.Pulled by a diesel?

I though it was a good idea, liked what I saw, but a bad presentation.

Jack

can't get over the ferdinand magelin car weighing 250,000+ lbs---and all the safety stuff in there for FDR during the war

One thing for sure, if you have the bucks, that's the way to go. The doctor buying the blunt end Observation Car twice was a hoot.

The editing criticisms are well taken......but it was still interesting and informative.

It would have been better if done in the manner Rich suggested, but it did take me into several cars that I would have never had access to or ridden in/on. 

Something of a good thing is better than nothing of a good thing, so to speak.  Not all of us enjoy the type of access to these "things" that others do so this may be as close we ever get.

There were numerous segments that I enjoyed for various reasons.

Until recently, I'd never heard of the Skytop lounge on the Hiawatha.  I had seen a similar car made for TCA when looking for a smooth-sided, 15" observation car on ebay about a month ago and, due to its unique windows, thought it was a fantasy car.  Then I saw photos of the prototype in "Streamliners" and understood the TCA car wasn't completely fantasy.

Getting to see the interior of the prototype was very interesting and, but for this program, I doubt I would have seen it otherwise.  I'm old enough to remember using a slide rule, so learning they were used for designing the flat window arrangement of the rear was something of a flashback.

Glad I recorded all three episodes and hope they to see more.

To be honest , I found three-hours of pre-recorded, HEE-HAW on RFD-TV more entertaining .

God's Blessings,

"Pappy"

Gentlemen,

    Although I wish they showed the cars longer and did more history on each car, at least they made a tricked out train show.  The problem is they did the show for modern people who have no attention span, when their audience happens to be a well educated bunch of train nuts.  I wanted to strangle the producers for not staying longer on each incredible privately owned car.  My father worked for the Union Switch and Signal, some of the guys who owned and restored these cars had him travel with them as the cars were brought on line, his last trip was to see me in Slidell, La where I lived building the NASA Space Shuttle External tank, he and my mom had their own private double drawing room aboard one of these incredible private cars, what a way to live and travel!  All you need is the money!  As my father taught me, really rich people in the USA never fly very much, they own their own rail cars which are like their moving home.   I do wish they would have done a better production job on the show, there is so much to actually see in each of those restored cars.

PCRR/Dave

 "Although I wish they showed the cars longer and did more history on each car, at least they made a tricked out train show.  The problem is they did the show for modern people who have no attention span, when their audience happens to be a well educated bunch of train nuts. "

Dave

I agree. The non train enthusiast ( on commercial channels ) expects hype versus content. I still remember "Extreme Trains" as a awful hyperbolic distortion of reality, thanks to a Hollywood type director. The hapless host was made to sound over caffeinated while the train crews he was with were seen chuckling under their breath or just tolerated the film crew. Cest La Vie.

Bruce