Spent the day at a Railway Museum.

[Robert2d6]

Spent the morning at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth Ga, a suburb of Atlanta. After a couple of months running Trainz, it was very interesting. I wound up talking my way into the Cab of a 1600 HP diesel engine that they were using to switch some cars around their yard , and spent about 30 minutes talking with the engineer. We talked about coupling speeds, Steam engines, simulators ( he likes Trainz by the way) , control systems, aligning couplers, coupler breakage, switching engines, starting a steam engine firebox fire, etc, etc,. Also went in an old Army Kitchen Car where they cooked meals for up to 500 World War ll troops in the 40's , old mail sorting cars, old pullman cars, and some old steam locomotives. Had a really enjoyable time there and will probably go back there again.
Here is the loco I was in.
http://www.srmduluth.org/photos/1026b.jpg


http://www.srmduluth.org/default.shtml

 

[Thai1On]

Man I'm jealous.

Dave

 

[slabay]

LOL, that is the loco I used to make my Georgia Railroad CSX heritage unit! Glad you had a good time. I went alone to B&O in Baltimore and tortured my family for hours at Gold Coast in Miami. Great places to completely waste an entire day if you're not careful!

 

[ish6]

Cool - thanks for sharing!!!

Ish

 

[Euphod]

Did you bring your camera?

 

[Robert2d6]

Did you bring your camera?

Yes I did , and will try to load some photos up tomorrow. I am not best photo person in the world, so hopefully one or two will turn out OK.

 

[Racn]

Awesome day, looking forward to your pics

 

[Robert2d6]

As I suspected, my picture taking skills on a scale from 1-10 are about a minus 23. Will go back there again in a couple of weeks and try again...

 

[bl4882]

It's kind of old fashioned nowadays, but you might want to take a half hour and type up notes of your experiences, everything you can remember while your memory is fresh to go with your pix, and save them for future reference. You will forget things and you never know what happened today that will be useful a few years from now. The opportunity you had does not happen often.

Just a suggestion.

Bernie

 

[Robert2d6]

It's kind of old fashioned nowadays, but you might want to take a half hour and type up notes of your experiences, everything you can remember while your memory is fresh to go with your pix, and save them for future reference. You will forget things and you never know what happened today that will be useful a few years from now. The opportunity you had does not happen often.

Just a suggestion.

Bernie

I guess one of the things that I noticed today is how slow and careful everyone was moving the rolling stock around. You can see that safety is their number one concern, and nobody is in a rush. Watching them couple a diesel to a small switching locomotive and push it back about 60 feet, took them quite awhile, due to balky couplers that were a bit out of alignment. Nobody seemed in a hurry, just very deliberate and careful.

This is the loco that they were moving. http://www.srmduluth.org/photos/2.jpg

 

[JCitron]

That looks like a really fun and awesome day.

I'm glad you had an opportunity to visit I would love to visit there some day, but I'm 1200 miles away. From one of the pictures I can see they're running a couple of old MBTA (Boston and Maine) Budd RDCs that were painted in the TVRM paint scheme.

John