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Who needs electric trains when you have a brand new 3,000 HP Amtrak F59 to play with? |
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The Steam Trains at Tilden Park Rocky's first train ride.
BART
Rocky's second train ride.
Amtrak! The real thing.
East Bay Composite Amtrak Schedule
We've combined four schedules into one easy-to-use guide for short
hops in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Railroad Museum in Sacramento
One of the best and biggest in the worldd, Run by the California State
Raiload Museum Foundation.
Railtown 90 miles to the
southeast of Scaramento. Also run by CSRMF.
"Age of Steam" Railroad Museum, Dallas, Texas. Good sound effects.
Illinois Railroad Museum. The
picture gallery is Rocky's favorite.
Via Rail
Canada another good photo gallery.
New York transit info
Union Pacific RR Our local tracks.
UPRR's rail links
TRAINS Magazine Everything else stops whenever
another issue arrives in the mail (thanx to Grandpa).
Cyberspace World Railroad An online railfan magazine.
Cyberoad's Directory of World Wide Rail Sites
AC Transit
"BUS!" was Rocky's first word.
Bay Area Transit Info
Schedules and maps for all Bay Area public transit.
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A train ride with Kira (and her mom Isa) and Sylas (and his dad Kirk) |
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For the local system we decided on "Playmobil 123" over Brio, Wood Town, Leggo, and Thomas the Tank Engine products. |
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While visiting a friend in Vancouver, a train appears on the freight siding below the balcony. We went down for a close look and some pictures. |  |
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We think it's an EMD SW-1500, but anyone who can provide a positive ID is encouraged to correct us. |
The crew invited us to tour the cab. Look carefully to see who is in the engineer's seat! |
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Rocky checks out the view. |