Posted by Thanks for posting on July 16, 2008
Thanks for posting! If it's the return trip to LAS, SLC, etc (not the Barstow trips), I was riding the train - in one of the rear domes. Great trip! Chuck/Las Vegas |
Posted by Eric B. on July 16, 2008
Wow, I wish I could have been there! Thanks for posting, simply amazing! |
Posted by on July 16, 2008
WOW! That was awesome I can't believe the noise that beast was making just with the exhaust! I wish I was alive for the steam era my grandpa always tells me how awesome it was seeing steam trains running sixty miles an hour and now I can appreciate the romance of the steam days alot more:)
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Posted by Why..... on July 17, 2008
....the E units? I can see where they might be needed as backup in case of a breakdown of 3985, but surely the Challenger is more than a match for that train. |
Posted by Eagle on July 17, 2008
Awesome!!!!! That was awesome!! With the 3985 looking so black and the wear on the e units it looked like it was a warp back to the 1950's!!! |
Posted by on July 19, 2008
Awesome runby! This is the stuff we want to see. I shot the trin at Kleghorn road higher up the pass and she was talking it up there as well. I always wondered what it was like elsewhere on the climb. Thanks for sharing!!! |
Posted by Chris Tokarcik on July 19, 2008
A lot of traffic that day it seems. Just a few railfans trying for that pacing shot? Very nice video. |
Posted by UnionPacific4ever on July 21, 2008
Even with the "B" unit off-line, if those E units were off-line even - that locomotive is hardly breaking a sweat. that's what she was built for - Hauling a--! I wish I could have been there! I miss NS running the 611 and 1218! Like someone said before - I wish I could have been around in the steam days! I really appreciate those steam engines, and I wish UP would restore a "Big Boy" too! |
Posted by DRGW3129 on July 21, 2008
Wonderful, sort of funny how there is a large group of railfans following the train from the road, but again great video. |
Posted by Eric Karr on August 12, 2008
WOW! You don't get that kind of a shoot that often! |
Posted by Tim on January 6, 2009
To those who wish they'd been there in the good ole days of Steam......i grew up along the N.Y. Central System in the early fifties and we'd play down by the tracks and built a fort and hung out there all day long in the summer.We would watch Mohawks and Niagras and 2-8-0's rumble by and feel the ground shake and smell the coal smoke and call for the engineers to blow that whistle and they always obliged. Then one day we saw a headlight coming and get excited and it would be a diesel and then another until suddenly there were no more "dragons". We stopped hanging out by the tracks after that day. I'm lucky to have been born in time to see what was truly another Age. |
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