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"Trains and Locomotives" airs Monday, 4/20 @ 6:00 -7:00 PM EDT; and Tuesday, 4/21 @ 4:30 - 5:30 AM EDT on RFD TV.  The show's title is "The Magnificent GG-1:  The World's Most Famous Electric Locomotive."

 

RFD TV airs on ATT U-verse channels 568 and 1568; Dish channel 231; DirecTv channel 345; Verizon channel 247; Time/Warner Kansas City channel 297; Charter Cable (west TN) channel 870; and, Armstrong Cable channel 488.

 

Note:  A forum member reported that Verizon no longer carries RFD TV; and another member reported it is included only with a premium subscription.  So, check your local listings.

 

If you get RFD TV in your area on a carrier not listed, or if the channel listing above contains an error; please post the information.  Thanks.

 
 
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Just yesterday I took my train-loving daughter to the B&O Museum. As always, we rode the "first mile" excursion train where I saw the rusting hulk of a GG-1 on a spur. It will take a LOT of work to get that one display worthy but hopefully it will happen.

 

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As an aside, it was also the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln funeral train stopping in Baltimore so they had a fitting reenactment of that solemn event.  

  

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is there anything else on RFD worth watching.

 

Depends if you are into farming or ranching, Rich. If you are thinking of a new John Deere as a primary mover, it might be worth it. 

 

When I lived in the Chicagoland area, I had Direct TV though cable was readily available. Where we live now, this is are only option, though a good one.

Love the GG1.  Even though I have seen this before, I had to watch.

It answers a couple of questions I've seen in the Forum such as what the bell and horn sounded like.  It also makes you wonder why, if there are so many recordings, was no one able to get the sound files right?  The horn and bell are ok but the rest of the sounds might as well be an electric fan.  The same sounds are used in every electric locomotive.  In the real world the EP5's were nicknamed "Jets" for a reason also they were originally equipped with a Hancock chime whistle not a Leslie A200.

I particularly enjoyed the scenes from Metuchen, Metro Park, New Brunswick, etc. since I grew up in that area.  Regrettably, I never went to those stations to see the great GG-1.  As an adult w/ wife and kids, we'd use Metro Park for trips into NYC during visits with my parents; but, this was long after the GG-1 had been retired.

Originally Posted by Passenger Train Collector:

is there anything else on RFD worth watching.

 

Depends if you are into farming or ranching, Rich. If you are thinking of a new John Deere as a primary mover, it might be worth it. 

 

When I lived in the Chicagoland area, I had Direct TV though cable was readily available. Where we live now, this is are only option, though a good one.

If I decide to plant my back yard I'll keep that in mind Brian..  from what I hear John Deere is the Rolls Royce of the tractor set.

Maybe you could use one to push around all that snow you get up there..

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