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Old trains and old trucks!

That Pic

Always gives me the willies because it looks like my truck :eek:

Many decades ago when I was even more foolish than now , I nearly got hit by a train like that late at night , in a '56 F-1 , it was white too and to this day I don't know how I wasn't killed .
 
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Thanx !

I lost count of how many times I've camped up there in various old cars , trucks and Motosover the years...

I'm not quite sure what tree line , could you maybe diagram it on the pic so i can share with my RailFan freinds / .

BTW : I like and want , that shortie '57 Chevy Coupe .
 
The trees behind the old cars across the road and extending to the right alongside the highway. The clear in front of them is the old roadbed.
Just for you, I stopped this morning and took a few pic.s standing in the roadbed in the town of Blackville, the overnight stop along the line. Named after mr. Black, who was in charge of laying out the route. I'll post the pic.s soon.
 
This is Main st. Blackville, SC. looking down the railroad bed.

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And looking toward Charleston.....
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The town was the overnight stop of the SC. Canal and Railroad co., the first railroad in the country and the longest in the world at the time. Founded by Mr. Black, who was in charge of surveying the route, who also bought a large amount of land in the railroad barron style, and set up a major shipping business. The engine was the Best Friend of Charleston and the line ran from Charleston to Hamburg, now N. Agusta. The Best friend exploded after the engineer tied the pressure valve closed to stop the annoying hiss. The rebuilt engine was called the Phoenix and continued service. This eventually became Southern Railway, now Norfolk Southern. If you look on S.C. maps, the roadbed followed Hwy 78 through Bamberg, Branchville(the first railroad branch in the country), Blackville, Williston, etc.
 
I'm at my grandmother's in Orlando this week. I just went through my late grandfather's railroad things....I have 4 bins of Southern railway and Norkolk southern stuff......promos, pads, schedules, fee schedules, maps, etc. From the 20's through the 70's, even a 1901 train schedule. Lots of books and history. When I get home, I will try to go through and catalog, eventually scanning in some of these things. Nate, whats the railroad group you were referring to? I may be selling some of the things I have multiple copies of.
 
I'm not with any particular group , I just have some foamer RailFan buddies...

Pikers mostly :rolleyes: .
 
Stop!!!!!!!!!

It's a trick!!!!!!!!!! Just to get you to sign up to a G*C site!

Interwebs full of disgusting sites like this, you perverts should be ashamed of trying to spread this kind of muck:rolleyes:
 
Hello Brother Truckers,
I have the privilege of running a locomotive almost every day.
I still enjoy it after 32 years.The last 22 as a Locomotive Engineer for the
Union Pacific RR. If you ever get a chance to come around these parts don't forget about the Texas State RR out of Rusk TX
 
Twisters 4x4 said:
Hello Brother Truckers,
I have the privilege of running a locomotive almost every day.
I still enjoy it after 32 years.The last 22 as a Locomotive Engineer for the
Union Pacific RR. If you ever get a chance to come around these parts don't forget about the Texas State RR out of Rusk TX
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Hey Twister! I've got a 2 part question for you. Do you ever make the run from Lufkin to Spring? and if so, does it pucker when you get to Urbana and have to cross the Trinity River bridge after this happened?

www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=50742&nseq=40

That was a hairy situation. Hard to believe it's been almost 7 years now!

Ken
 
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