The Queen City Trailways Bus bound for Charlotte too. How cool is that? David

Welcome Royce - I have two of the Bachmann On30 4-6-0's........ a number 11 in black and a number 12 in green...... I enjoy playing with them and have a basement layout but nothing you'll ever see fea

Hi Don - Both of your messages..... your initial intro and now this one....... have shown up in my inbox today. I'm not sure why the first one floated around in cyberspace for several days. Maybe it g

As an addendum - Please - Do not misunderstand me to suggest that John Waite was promoting any revisionist agenda other than preserving and sharing the history of the ET&WNC. Absolutely not my intent.

This is kind of an OCD linguisticss debate now - I would not consider a railroad car itself to be a 'Jim Crow' car unless there was a partition creating two separate (but equal) passenger seating area

Ken, What more can you tell me about the Southern Appalachian Railroad operation? I would be thrilled to find a photograph somewhere. I grew up in Mars Hill and actually rode that train - sort of. My

The crowds trackside were unreal and only increased the nearer we got to Roanoke which remains proud of their steam locomotive heritage. I would imagine that the reaction is catching the attention of

I was aboard the train yesterday. #630 is looking good and sounding good. Of equal interest to me was finally having a chance to ride the famed 'pumpkinvine' route where scheduled passenger service en

Tim - Congratulations on this. I knew that it would have to be something really great to pry you away from #12 and THIS is really great. Now you've got 45 miles of mountain railroading to challenge an

My wife has accused me of having an affair. She points out that every so often I call 'Julie' (Amtrak's automated ticket agent) on the telephone and then a few days later I disappear for three or four

Got mine yesterday and had to check out every photograph. For a couple of minutes I thought that what I had always thought I knew about Elk Park was backwards....... I mean here it is obviously mornin

One of the highlights of my 'railfan life' was in July 2005 when I made a 'donation' to the locomotive preservation fund at the Nevada Northern Railway Museum in Ely, NV and got to run locomotive #93,

Have they started removing crossties too or will that come later? David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Hi Johnny, Some thoughts - I have ridden the domes at both Rio Grande Scenic and Royal Gorge. I also splurged once and did the cab ride at the Royal Gorge. Both are stunning, stunning trips and I beli

Agreed! Had my first visit to the Link Museum in Roanoke this past year and enjoyed that as well! David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

All of a sudden I'm reminded of that scene in the movie 'October Sky' when the boys start financing their rocket experiments by lifting rails from abandoned mine spurs.................................

Agreed. This will pretty much do it. Once the rails are lifted, they aren't coming back. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Very nice footage. It's interesting to see what that trackage looked like when the train was THE attraction. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Very Tempting as we are partial to orange cats in our house. We need to pass on this one though as we were adopted in early October by a very friendly stray gray cat. Turns out that she was already in

I can honestly say that I hope to never stop doing odd jobs and things that interest me...... particularly things that involve riding trains and looking at steam locomotives. There is plenty out there