Train footage from vacations past.

[Terry Toenges]

Tehachapi Loop. I corrected the spelling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDuSfXtqMlE

[Terry Toenges]

San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park from 2001.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppgx0Ewi8QA

[Terry Toenges]

Riding on the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad just outside of Yosemite National Park in California.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKy4QbzP2Cg

[Terry Toenges]

Railtown 1897 Jamestown California - Home of the Sierra Railroad and old #3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9crA-jD10Y0

[Terry Toenges]

California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. See Jupiter, C. P. Huntington, J.W. Bowker, War bonnet Santa Fe diesel A & B. The depot where the Central Pacific started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqyvJVJP1Dg&t=7s

[Terry Toenges]

Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwHAHEyzahU

[Terry Toenges]

Patee House Museum in St. Joseph Mo. from 1997. Hannibal & St. Joseph 4-4-0 #35, a replica of the first railway mail car, a model train layout, Pony Express stuff, and other railroad items.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI-1LJ1n7pU

[Terry Toenges]

This is from June, 1997. The Black Hills Central Railroad in Keystone, South Dakota. It's about two hours long. We rode the train one day and the next day we followed it on it's run between Keystone and Hill City.
For the ride, the loco was pulling backwards and I was riding up front so I had an "up close and personal" view of the front of the 2-6-2T. They call it the "1880 Train".
She was blowing out a lot of water. I'm sure they had plenty of water but to a person like myself without an "in depth" knowledge of just how many miles they get to a gallon of water, I wondered if they had enough for the ride.
The day we followed it, I knew the road zig-zagged back and forth across the tracks so I would shoot video when it passed. Then hurry up and drive to next place and shoot video and keep doing that the whole way.
I roamed around the yard quite a bit while we were there, checking out their neat stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU50T5jpURQ

[Terry Toenges]

The "caboose motel" in Two Rivers State Recreation Area just West of Omaha in June, 1997.
It was the first time I had seen a caboose turned into a little apartment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5YDaighfWE

[Terry Toenges]

Union Station in Omaha, Nebraska was turned into a museum. At the time it was Western Heritage Museum. Now, it is called Durham Museum. They have  a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy and a DD40AX on display outside.The main lobby area had statues is various poses with sound like they are talking to each other. The have a model railroad layout, too. My camera was messing up so I had to delete some bits of it where the video was jumping and getting some weird lines. Part of it might have been because the tapes are so old and the video and audio is getting messed up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHB68KuogGg

[Terry Toenges]

Rails West Museum in Council Bluffs Iowa and the Golden Spike Monument. Council Bluffs was considered the Eastern terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad. There is a model railroad layout inside and rolling stock outside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtqZDzX4NXM

[Terry Toenges]

Here's a compilation of a few different train things in Nebraska from Stuhr Museum, Pioneer Village, Trail & Rails Museum, Dawson County Historical Society, Brady Island Depot, and Union Pacific's Bailey Yard in North Platte.
There is footage at Pioneer Village that shows a lot of model freights cars up high, along the walls. They were all built by one man and built to exact scale.
I had it done last night but I had to go back and change a couple things. I found a little clip from Gering NE. and some track and a plaque from Fort Robinson that I just added to the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4yAN_id0kA

[the Bach-man]

Wow, Terry,
You sure get around!
Thanks for the vids!
the Bach-man

[Terry Toenges]

I'm thankful that I had the opportunity in my younger days to see all these places. All these VHS tapes have been sitting in boxes for years. I'm finally converting them to DVD's and uploading them. There is so much neat stuff that it seemed a shame not to share it.
Some of these folks would never get to see it otherwise. Some of these places have web sites but some don't show a whole lot. Fred Lundgren posting all those videos gave me the incentive to do it.
I've been going through them and just pulling out the train stuff and compiling it for now. There's a lot of other stuff like from Yellowstone, Yosemite, Florida, Texas, the Northeast, and a lot of old military forts like Fts. Robinson, Laramie, Apache, Bridger that I'll just put on Youtube.

[Terry Toenges]

Here's another one with stuff from Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming. The model railroad at the Miniature Museum was pretty neat. The one at the end with the Tecumseh's Western history museum was the neatest. The O27 ones were just going around and around but they had so many things going on there. I cut it down and cut a lot out of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXHM0vWhw8g