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- Nostalgic for bar cars? Metra may introduce ‘café cars’
Interesting that commuter railroads can find a demand for nostalgic bar car - and may introduce "cafe cars" - but Amtrak and its state partners don't see value in providing a cafe car for multi-hour train routes
- Trona Tunnel Motor Renumbering
I forget to mention when I posted a few recent photos of the 'new' SD60s on the Trona railway that it seems that someone has been getting a little nostalgic about the Tunnel Motors remaining on the Trona Railway specifically, no 2006 has had its old SP numbers re-applied, including numberboards
- Steam Excursion gt; Coal vs. Oil Smoke - Trainorders. com
The nostalgic whines about missing the smell of coal smoke is most certainly not a complaint of mine I lived in southern Kansas and my town enjoyed the frequent sounds (and smoke) of the Santa Fe, Frisco, and Mo Pac steam engines Both Santa Fe and Frisco were all oil burners and the MoP burned coal
- A couple of Dunsmuir Turntable memorys
Very nice nostalgic scenes You are right Bob, In many towns in the west the railroad infrastructure removal destruction is near complete Only memories of past operations through photos and personal accounts remain
- Steam in the Karavanke Mountains, Austria
The steam locomotive, designated Class 378, was equipped with a leading and trailing axle and four coupled wheel sets 167 locomotives were purchased in Austria alone, with another 25 from the Slovak State Railways When the "Nostalgia Railways in Carinthia" were looking for a powerful tank locomotive for nostalgic trains on the ÖBB network
- Passenger Trains gt; Breakfast on the Autotrain - Trainorders. com
Unlike the other online menus at amtrak com, the Autotrain does not show a menu for breakfast What's on the menu?
- ATSF passenger train at Chanute, KS
This snapshot photo shows a northbound ATSF Railway passenger train at Chanute, KS, in the late 1960s I'm told by a relative that the train was No 212, but I would like confirmation for such a train number Chanute was on the ATSF's Ottawa, KS,-Tulsa, OK, route Tracks no longer ex
- Blue Train Cafe (Toyama, Japan)
Most visitors (according to various sources) visit there for the nostalgic atmosphere It's like stepping into a time machine I was the only one who acted like a train geek - other visitors were coffee shop geeks The second train in the video (and the thumbnail) is an HO scale Kintetsu Railway "Vista Car" limited express EMU
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