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I have an old N scale Minitrix Pennsylvania 2-10-0 Decapod. It runs great! I just don’t know what to pull behind it. I prefer passenger consists. I presume just some typical heavyweight Pullmans from the 50s? I’ll post a video in a bit of it pulling some old Bachman built American Flyer coaches.

OK. This has been touched on in various threads over the years, and honestly, I can't find the one most related to Amtrak in this category. So, moderators, if you want to combine this with an existing relevant thread, go for it. I'm really perplexed why Amtrak hasn't had the engineering...

This is what I call Japanese Apartment Style model railroading. Temporary layout in the living room, leave it out a few days, put it back up. Track is all Tomix. Shinkansen 0- Series is Kato with an internal light kit.

I am going to miss the Palm Tree livery. That is all.

In less than 15 hours, I'll be on a flight with my son, leaving Orlando, headed to Detroit then onward to Tokyo. In about 36 hours, I should be on a bus, riding through the crazy evening Tokyo traffic and in about 50 hours, I'll activate my JR Pass and then enjoying the next 7 days riding...

My wife on Dart last night took this nice picture.

Here goes nothing. I'm just a cell phone call away. She can do it without me. *me holding breath*

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In California on business and had today off so I bought a $10 day pass. Could have exploited it a lot more, but decided to keep it to daylight hours. Basically rode the Antelope Valley line round trip. Walked around the City Hall. LAUS is still beautiful, but the waiting areas are cordoned...

DC Suspends Most of Its Metro Trains Over Safety Issue | Newsmax.com I didn't even hear about (nor can I find - yet - the "dramatic derailment" that caused this. Very disheartening to see a Japanese manufacturer fail like this. EDIT: Original derailment news: Metro Train Derails Outside of...

Boris Johnson hops on Amtrak for White House meeting with Biden | Daily Mail Online

As a sister thread to Nostalgic and Historic Amtrak Stations Still Used Today, I would like to start one for ugly stations in Metro areas. I'm not going to define Metro areas. Like, I wouldn't want to include Longview, TX which is ugly and soul-less yet in a city of over 70,000. I'm thinking...

Does anyone know anyone who works at the GE facility at the Melbourne airport? I hear there is a train simulator in that building and I would love to see it.

As I settle into my new life as a Floridian, I had an opportunity to take my kid and a friend of his to the Everglades for some swamp rompin' in an airboat. Afterwards, I discovered his friend really wanted to ride a train. So I took them to Hialeah and "raced" them to West Palm. Even with...

The Silver Meteor was hanging out in Kissimme for a few extra minutes blocking traffic, so I snapped this. Note that the two new Sleepers are sandwiching the older VL1. I guess getting into a VL2 is random luck.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-bullet-train-high-speed-bathroom-break-lands-driver-in-hot-water/

On the 3:15 NB out of Poinciana headed to Debary. HEP went out before we left the station. Don't know why they have the mid level seats behind the cab blocked off. Security is their excuse.

Many years ago, this forum regularly posted articles from Bruce Richardson's "This Week at Amtrak" publication. Like me, Bruce is a paradigm - politically conservative while being very pro passenger rail service. You may disagree with him, but the system ain't working well right now. His...

New U.S. train journey from Moab to Denver will feature glass-dome carriages | Daily Mail Online

Here's a cool video by Noel Philips, primarily a Flight vlogger, but occasionally adds some trains in his repertoire (including a nice ride on the Empire Builder). This video shows a phenomenal railroad that goes across Kenya. Politically darker is the investment that was made by China that...