Re: Favorite observations and caboose
Author: ff
Date: 06-03-2012 - 11:07
Nice experience Tom.. Incidentally the cross Guatemala double track electric rr for container movements... the dry canal.. project is very much alive and progressing toward land purchase... Favorite obs rides.. you have to be old for this. but try the Overland Ltd Berkeley to Chicago using train ferry to Benicia.... Sacramento Northern.. regular service .. spls to Colusa....Thermolito and Chico...Shasta Oak to Portland - AT&SF "Ranger" Chgo to Wichita...Scenic Ltd.. WP..open platform SLC to Oakland ... D&RGW Colorado Springs..to SLC... NWP all nite long.. bay to Eureka.. SP excursion.. 3rd and Townsend to Santa Cruz by way of Felton and back thru Watsonville.. ATSF Oakland Mole to Riverbank.. at over 100 mph thru Hilt ... SP Oak to Placerville..favorite caboose...Pickering Lbr and Santa Cruz to Davenport.. Tennessee Pass to Glenwood.. after that working as a brakeman on the RG .. the caboose lost its glamor..