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06-13-2022 - 07:29
Peter D.
D. B. Arthur Wrote:
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05-21-2022 - 12:41
D. B. Arthur
Peter D. Wrote:
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> With rods down to! You should have asked someone to remove the ladder for a clean shot. But shot non the less. Were you old
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05-21-2022 - 12:08
Peter D.
With rods down to! You should have asked someone to remove the ladder for a clean shot. But shot non the less. Were you old enough to be out and about when the Flying Scotsman was on the west coast?
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11-15-2021 - 13:56
Trigger
Flying Scotsman in the US
Authenticity link
https://youtu.be/Z84gDPSTZ_A
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12-06-2020 - 20:51
FUD
I wonder about that 1965 date. The foreground looks like the northern part of the old produce market district that was bulldozed for the Golden Gateway project in the early 1960s, so it might be a tad
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09-11-2018 - 23:44
David Dewey
It stayed in the Oroville Roundhouse a while, under the care of Solano Railcar & Sam Girdler. Shortly after it left, the roundhouse burned down in a dramatic fire. Some historical equipment went with
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09-11-2018 - 17:03
Peter D.
I picked up a slide on ebay, shows it coming off the Bieber cutoff onto the Keddie bridge heading to Oroville.... Interesting!
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09-10-2018 - 11:02
Pdxrailtransit
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-43755611
Always thought it remarkable this engine went down the Oregon Trunk.
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06-08-2017 - 13:35
Inspector Hickey
In 1972 the Flying Scotsman and two wagons went back and forth on the State Belt RR between Jefferson St. and The Embarcadero to where the SP began at Townsend St. NIMBYs shut that down after a few w
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08-22-2016 - 13:09
wsabo
There was a last track.. don't know if it was 14 or one not numbered that continued past the Doggie Diner across the street from the Fourth Street station and on to the State Belt tracks. The track ma
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02-25-2016 - 21:19
Richard Elgenson
Thanks Web, I did find that same video but didn't link it. The broadcast story was 3 or 4 minutes and had narration and interviews with the "train drivers". Search in the BBC web site only displayed
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02-25-2016 - 19:18
WebDigger
Richard Elgenson Wrote:
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> If anyone can figure out their site, please post link.
Didn't see it. Couldn't figure out the site, but will this
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02-25-2016 - 18:37
Richard Elgenson
Caught a video story on this evenings (February 25, 2016) BBC World News America which was well done. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3csxxbb. It was the last story in the 30 minute show. Th
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02-25-2016 - 08:53
Hogger
https://www.yahoo.com/news/photos/flying-scotsman-back-tracks-100133716/
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05-13-2014 - 21:22
mook
17. Re: hoonish ?!
Possibly. Or else something the new staff made up after they moved the magazine's offices from Newport Beach to someplace in the general vicinity of Detroit, apparently down the street from Car & Driv
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01-29-2011 - 12:12
Margaret (SP fan)
What a neat-looking engine! Thanks so much for
posting the lovely shot, Drew, and for being willing
to take photos with the crew in them, and to name them.
(Without the people, our beloved locomot
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01-23-2011 - 07:25
Bill Kohler
The Flying Scotsman on the way to her stay in San Francisco. September 27, 1971.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5284/5381115864_24492268cb_b.jpg
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01-22-2011 - 19:46
Drew Jacksich
Former LNER #4472, "The Flying Scotsman" arerived in the Bay Area in the fall of 1971 and was taken to San Francisco on the WP car ferry "Las Plumas". In the spring of the following year, Pegler start
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03-13-2010 - 17:10
Espee99
Trainnews - volume 3 - issue 55 - 03/13/10
Notice -Trainnews will publish at odd times over the next week. I am going to spring training and will publish at different times depending upon the Baseb
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02-08-2010 - 19:56
Espee99
Trainnews - volume 3 - issue 29 - 02/08/10
This day in Railroad History
February 8, 1986
Twenty-three people were killed in a collision between a Canadian National Railway freight train and a VIA
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05-14-2009 - 21:24
Jim
Good photo. I remember that short operation as a young child. The Flying Scotsman's southern terminal was track 14 at 3rd and Townsend. That was the track that continued past the station onto King
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12-01-2008 - 13:44
Bill Kohler
My wish list would include 5021. It would be great to have a 3 cylinder locomotive running around just to listen to. I know, shays are 3 cylinder but a rod engine develops a lopeing(sp?)exhaust that
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05-29-2007 - 23:56
OldPoleBurner
This ain't the first time! And it won't be the last!
The almighty news media often displays a much worse, even "Professional" obnoxiousness, than is typical of some railfans, who are most often mer
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