National Train Day on May 9, 2009

[Santa Fe buff]

Exactly.

[jettrainfan]

Yay its on Saturday! i got to learn how to read!(lol)The round house at Cleveland steel mill is open and i will only go if their steamer is out. I see the rs-3 all the time so why pay? Also i got my layout up again!:D Again here it's suppose to rain ! Oh well tough it out like true railfanners!

[alex wittman]

I'm working on Thomas' branch line in G scale ready for the range to come out.

[Cheeky_ULP]

Exactly.

And National Train Day is on Saturday.. So theres no problem.

[jettrainfan]

Alright, I'm back. First i went to the roundhouse and the steamer was not there. And i had no luck at Wendy park. Then at 2:30 i went to berea. My dad and I got stopped at a rta station to watch a passing train as soon as that left yet another came! So i waited and taped. As it began to end yet another came!(Note: this is the NS chicago line and this part has 3 tracks) So all the lines were full! We get to Berea and it was almost like New york city traffic!(no offense) Your average stuff till about 4:00. 2 CSX diesels were coming so i headed to the east bound one. I fell when running(lol)but I got a rare grain train and was being hauled by 2 older CSX EMD SD40-2 diesels! And the other was a intermodel. But the best part was about 5:00-5:15 when these two dash 8s were trying to be steam engines.(smoke show) and as soon as i was about to get my cam corder off my dad's car, I saw a Illinois central 6 truck Pullman coach! No joke! I picked my camera up and followed it as much as possible till a CSX diesel got in the way . I stayed at Berea for another 30 minutes and left. This is the best train day for me ever!

How about you guys?

[Santa Fe buff]

Oh, god. I thought it was on May 10th like last year!   

I guess it's happy National Train Day everyone...

Joshua

[Anthony P2]

what convention and where in philly

idk. i didn't get to go. i have no idea why. but i did go to my local hobbie shop and got a bachmann split level house, and some woodland scenics underbush.

[Guilford Guy]

It appears National Train day will be the 2nd Saturday of May (May 10th- Completion of Transcontinental Railroad)
If you are in a city that day, and see lots of different colored balloons or a long line of people, they are also part of the celebration. I went into Boston on Saturday and hung out for a while talking about the future of MBTA...

[panniertankboy8751]

Wait a minute... National Train Day was on the 9th? Dangit!  Well at least the NMRA Convetion will be close to me this year so mabey i can go

[shining time]

i thought the nta day by me stunk!  but i did run the engines on my layout