Thursday Proto Photo Jul 31/14

[Lenny53]

[lock4244]

Pair of former SOO SD60's on CP's eXpressway:
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=15796

[Ntrainz1]

WW 517 ex NKP 517
taken with permission

Bob.

[pjm20]

Here is a mile marker on the former C&O Lexington (Va) Branch:



In car snap of some power at CSX's Collier Yard outside Petersburg, Va:

[C855B]

Caught this UP engine on a rarely-used branchline this morning, running light:

[tappertrainman]

Caught this UP engine on a rarely-used branchline this morning, running light:

Were they trying to find their lost Central Pacific counterpart? 

James

[C855B]

Were they trying to find their lost Central Pacific counterpart? 

Didn't get a pic of the Jupiter because the park ranger/presenter was treating everybody like seven-year-olds if they wandered away from the escorted group, and was chasing them away from the rails. I only got these by leaving the visitor center and walking the 300 yards down the road to the grade crossing.

It might have been an interesting presentation had she dropped her usual mind-numbing tourist schtick and spoken to the group of 100 UP historians as adults. 

[R L Smith]

Vacationed in Nova Scotia a couple of weeks ago, and stumbled upon the Station Inn in Tatamagouche.  We stayed in what was originally a boxcar that was converted to a caboose by CN in the 1950's.  It has been refurbished into a delightful and comfortable hotel room, and the breakfast in the station the next morning was great.  the staff was very polite and friendly too.  Although we didn't go into any of the other cabooses, there are several modern CN cabooses similarly converted.  If you're in the area, I highly recommend it!

RLS

[R L Smith]

Caught two heritage units this week near Enola.  The Southern was stopped waiting to enter Enola yard with an oil train, and the Norfolk Southern unit was the second unit on an autorack train.





(sorry for the lousy focus, but it was on me before I knew it...)

[Ike the BN Freak]

It might have been an interesting presentation had she dropped her usual mind-numbing tourist schtick and spoken to the group of 100 UP historians as adults. 

She's a government employee, you can only ask so much before they go nuts because the script is being broken.

[Philip H]

She's a government employee, you can only ask so much before they go nuts because the script is being broken.

Dude, that's just not cool. Being a government employee I'm getting really tired of stuff like this. My guess is no one told her what sort of group she was speaking to.

[davefoxx]

Dude, that's just not cool. Being a government employee I'm getting really tired of stuff like this.

Haha!  Oh, boy, if I had a nickel for every lawyer joke I ever heard.  I'd recommend getting used to it, Philip, because there's a lot of government employees that give workers like you a bad name.

My guess is no one told her what sort of group she was speaking to.

Please tell me you're kidding.

DFF

[C855B]

... My guess is no one told her what sort of group she was speaking to.

Please tell me you're kidding.

Truthfully? In this case, even if we did, she wasn't going to listen. Sad. She was so friggin' full of herself and in love with the sound of her own voice over the P.A. that deviating from the script was simply not going to happen. In reality, that's what drove us out of the visitor center and reenactment area to seek other vantage points. If I wanted to be "managed" and talked down to like that, I'd go to Disney World.

[Bob Bufkin]

Empty stone train returning to WV.  Got caught at the crossing. 

[Philip H]

Haha!  Oh, boy, if I had a nickel for every lawyer joke I ever heard.  I'd recommend getting used to it, Philip, because there's a lot of government employees that give workers like you a bad name.
DFF

Statistically no more so then in any other profession.  And really, what got me going was the purveyor of said comment was (or still is) in uniform and ought to know better.

Please tell me you're kidding.

DFF

Actually happens all the time in park settings where a lot of groups cycle through, and the interpretive staff are either interns, temps, or contractors.  No one tells them who they are talking to because no one cares enough to do so.

And, many times, (especially if they are contractors) deviating form the script gets them reprimanded or fired.