Traditionals & Trains

[Jack Black]

Railroad tracks just behind Pearl here, running along the shore of Lake Minnetonka in Wayzata, MN. (The lake is all that frozen white stuff just behind the tracks.)

Do train tickets count? These were from my visit to Sheffield in 2018.

I thought I had knife pics with this next one, but I guess not. I’ll share it anyways, because I think it’s kind of interesting. In the mid-90s, Amtrak stopped providing passenger train service to Phoenix and Tempe, AZ and instead began servicing a single stop in Maricopa, AZ, a suburb about 30 miles south of downtown Phoenix. It’s a stop on Amtrak’s Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle routes.

The dome car shown below (“Silver Horizon” from the CB&Q’s California Zephyr line) was originally meant to serve as the station itself, but that didn’t work out and it was replaced with the modular building seen in the background of the first photo, and remained for display only.

We lived in Maricopa for about 5 years before moving to Minnesota in 2018. In 2019 they moved the dome car (not far, from the sound it) to make room for a road construction project.

Great pics Barrett

 

[Jolipapa]

The Mechanical Horse was built under license by FAR and in my youth every week end one was parked in my street, most of time with a freight wagon.

 

[Jolipapa]

©J.G. Jeudy

 

[Jolipapa]

 

[dantzk8]

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The BB locomotive! A legend!

Dan.

 

[Captain Howdy]

below 86th street nyc.

 

[Jolipapa]

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[Gonzalo]

Knife in good company of dog and screw spikes.

 

[5K Qs]

A "billboard" in the Madrid Metro and a knife display at Vinas Cuchilleria in Madrid, which unfortunately was closed when my daughter who lived in Madrid for several years took me there.




- GT

 

[cbach8tw]

Jolipapa , any Laguiole with a cork screw and a bottle of wine on a train? That would be neat to see. Or in a picnic with the train in the background.

 

[Headwinds]

 

[Jolipapa]

 

[echoscout]

 

[cudgee]

below 86th street nyc.

Great shot. .

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[Headwinds]

 

[cudgee]

There would be a stack of now defunct lines in that publication.

 

[BuckShack]

First in line at the crossing is always cool. Not much time to get a knife and camera ready though. This is a Norfolk Southern line in PA.

 

[Jolipapa]

All what remains of the track, from the bridge down my street. More chances to meet a fox than a train by these days.

 

[Hibou Canne]

Quebec Central #437234

The Quebec Central Railway (reporting mark QCR) was a railway in the Canadian province of Quebec, that served the Eastern Townships region south of the St. Lawrence River. Its headquarters was in Sherbrooke. It was originally incorporated in 1869 as the Sherbrooke, Eastern Townships and Kennebec Railway, and changed its name to the Quebec Central Railway in 1875. In 1894, it built a line southward to Mégantic to connect to Canadian Pacific Railway's east-west line, the International Railway of Maine. It would eventually own around 300 miles (483 km) of track. In 1912, the Canadian Pacific Railway leased the Quebec Central for 99 years but continued to operate as Quebec Central Railway, including passenger service to American cities.[1] The Quebec Central in turn leased the Massawippi Valley Railway, a short line from Lennoxville to Newport, in 1926; this allowed passenger service from Quebec City via Sherbrooke to the United States.