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Good morning from the Charente.  on 21st May 2019 the tardis was still in Cheyenne, WY.  It did clear enough in the morning for us to nip out and do a bit of shopping but in the afternoon we stayed in.  Here a westbound is heading past.

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Later that afternoon an eastbound came in with a rather different consist of power.

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Tucked in behind the first two 4000+ HP diesel electrics were a couple of  Gensets.  I think that we saw this pair south of Salt Lake City a few days earlier.

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I asked on the Loconotes forum where they would be heading and the reply was for storage and possible sale.

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I then moved to the south side of the tracks and this westbound came under the C & S overpass.P5220768_resize.JPG.5290edfab52b7b07036d96e8e176ce96.JPG

The motel can be seen under the left hand signal head.

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On 02/01/2022 at 05:18, jamie92208 said:

We finally stopped at Wendover, a strange town with Mormon Utah at one end, the state line in the middle then the casinos of Nevada at the west end. 

 

Jamie, there are technically two separate cities in the Wendover area. On the Utah side of the border, it is the City of Wendover. On the other side of the border, it's the City of West Wendover, Nevada where the casinos are at.

 

Wendell

Idaho, USA 

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6 hours ago, mdvle said:

The Gensets were an interesting idea that sadly just didn't work in practice, and they didn't really last very long.

They are quite strangec ooking beasts.  I suspect that like somevother attempts the pkacing of road vehicle technology on a rail vehicle didn't go as well as they hoped.  It was good to at least see them.

 

Jamie

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I'm gutted it's finished!

 

Thanks for posting these Jamie, it's been amazing.  Whilst I have seen US trains, it was only ever from the edges of the country - being in the Merch at the time.  The interior of the USA is a mystery to me.

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On 13/01/2022 at 22:57, New Haven Neil said:

I'm gutted it's finished!

 

Thanks for posting these Jamie, it's been amazing.  Whilst I have seen US trains, it was only ever from the edges of the country - being in the Merch at the time.  The interior of the USA is a mystery to me.

I think it's a mystery  to many Americans.

 

I still have photos of other railway systems. Several European countries, Germany, Benelux, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece plus Tunisia and Egypt in Africa. Also a few of Australia and a couple of Pacific Islands. I'll probably do a general European thread in chronological order so it will skip about a bit, then a short Rest of the World. Nothing for the next week or so though.

 

Jamie

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Jamie, I have never been to the USA.  Your photos have actually made me want to visit some of the locations you have photographed!

 

I'm looking forward to your European photos.

 

David

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I agree with Neil, Jamie, pH and Wendell (quoted below to preserve context) and like DaveF I'm inspired to visit some of the places featured (fingers crossed for Feb 16th)

I can't believe this thread's been going 8 months. I'm going to have to find something constructive to do now :scratchhead:

 

 

On 13/01/2022 at 16:57, New Haven Neil said:

I'm gutted it's finished!

 

Thanks for posting these Jamie, it's been amazing.  Whilst I have seen US trains, it was only ever from the edges of the country - being in the Merch at the time.  The interior of the USA is a mystery to me.

On 13/01/2022 at 17:10, jamie92208 said:

I think it's a mystery  to many Americans.

On 13/01/2022 at 17:15, pH said:

Some flat bits, some bumpy bits, a few wet bits, lots of space.

On 13/01/2022 at 17:39, Wendell1976 said:

Thank you for sharing all the beautiful pictures, Jamie. The United States is one big, beautiful country. I have been to 43 out of the 50 states. There are many parts of America I haven't seen yet. 

 

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Thanks for that Chris

On 16/01/2022 at 04:14, ChrisH-UK said:

I agree with Neil, Jamie, pH and Wendell (quoted below to preserve context) and like DaveF I'm inspired to visit some of the places featured (fingers crossed for Feb 16th)

I can't believe this thread's been going 8 months. I'm going to have to find something constructive to do now :scratchhead:

 

 

 

The whole of North America is well worth visiting. I was lucky enough to visit other bits apart from the US such as Canada and El Salvador and working through the photos has brought back some lovely memories.  

 

As to the rest of my railway photos I've had a think and having thunk have decided to do a random European thread in chronological order. I'll probably start in early February. That will just leave a fairly short Rest of the World thread for Africa, (Tunisia and Egypt) plus Australia, Fiji and Hawaii. 

 

Now back to thoughts of , ' what did happen to Heidi from Wisconsin and Beverley from Vancouver.'  That's now over 43 years ago.

 

Jamie

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When I visited the US I went on a fly drive and covered quite a distance in two weeks, nearly 3,000 miles. Landed in New York and picked up the hire car and then headed west to Gettysburg and spent a couple of days there then south through the Shenandoah Valley to Chattanooga where I spent a few more days then to Nashville and then I headed up the Ohio river valley back to New York and then spent the final three days with an English friend and his family in Connecticut. Really beautiful country especially the Shenandoah Valley.  

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Enjoyed following your photo journey on the thread Jamie. Many places we have also been but many that we still would like to visit. Our planned 30th consecutive year of visiting the USA did not happen in 2020 due to the pandemic. Cant wait to revisit once things settle down a bit.

 

Hopefully you can continue this thread upon your next visit at some time in the future.

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On 12/01/2022 at 10:17, jamie92208 said:

That's the end of my American pictures.   It's about 8 months since I started uploading them and have thoroughly enjoyed the process.  I hope that you have enjoyed the ride.  You never know, if my dream of seeing a Big Boy in steam can be fulfilled perhaps I will be allowed another trip across the pond.  I suppose that miracles can sometimes happen.   In the middle of this last trip we became grandparents for the first time and were about as far away from Leeds as it's possible to be, somewhere in the middle of the Pacific near the 180 degree Meridian and south of the equator.   The young lady is now a delightful nearly 3 yr old who I will have to try and take trainspotting.   I have a railway to build for her before the summer.

 

Thanks for taking the time to put up all of these pictures Jamie. It has been very enjoyable following your thread and especially the ones taken on Sherman Hill, which I will definitely use for reference as my layout progresses. I can't believe you got a cab ride! Like you, I hope to get to the US to see 4014 in steam; never did I think we would ever see that happen...

 

Hope you get the layout built for your granddaughter :) 

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Just to let people know.  I've started a new thread under Overseas Prototype, which is the rest of my European photos plus a bit of Africa plus Australia and a couple of Pacific islands. It should have started in February but Covid in our family in the UK meant that we are still in France so I started it today.

 

Jamie

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Good afternoon from a rather cloudy and damp Charente.  I haven't actually been back across the pond but I have spent  some weeks reloading my photos in this thread that got lost in the great crash.  Probably about 2000.  It's been fun to catch up with some of the memories again and I've even corrected a few typos.   It's now almost 2 years since I started uploading photos during the first lockdown in late April 2020.   The four threads that have resulted seem to have been well received and I'm now well on with my European and rest of the World thread.  In fact I'm now in Australia in 2019 at the start of the trip the ended up seeing the Big Boy.

 

If anyone has the time to upload the missing photos that they uploaded to the thread it would be appreciated.  The only thing that I haven't done is to reload any of mine that appeared in quotes.

 

Jamie

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