Doing the bills here, I had to take a break....
Wanted to share with my train friends, I took my 6yo son Nick to the Houston Train Museum last weekend. It happens to be spittin' distance from UP's Englewood Yard A hump yard, at that :thumbsup:
He really liked the museum. You walk thru about 6~7 coupled passenger cars before exiting that part. They have all sorts of old memorabilia, videos going here and there, display cases. Most of the cars are still in need of restoration, but it still way-cool to see the old accommodations, the sleeping areas, etc., especially for a kid ("they're so small!!"). They also had a new arrival, a passenger coach, almost in better shape than the rest but missing trucks, sitting on a flat car. Three switcher locos, a really cool helium-tank car, a few other items... a little speeder-like thing...really cool. And I was told they had two cabooses sitting on a siding off site because they couldn't get their switch to work or something. We'll have to go back
They also have an HO layout (with the museum and it's cars modeled, of course) in a passenger car, off by itself. Thomas and the crew are there for the youngins'... It wasn't running too well, but still cool.
Then off to Englewood... man, that place is freaking HUGE!!! A sign of the poor state of railroad business (tho I hear it's picking up) were thirty-something UP locos, looking coupled, sitting off in the back, unused. It looked pretty cool to see such a lash-up!!! We watched the hump in action- too cool for a little dude. He thought it was great. We saw three or four of the new ultra-low emissions GenSets... funny looking, but in a cool way.
Anyway, things weren't hopping as much as I hoped, he was starting to get bored, I guess, so we decided to make one more stop for a couple minutes and if nothing happened, we'd leave.
We ended up staying another hour or so It was kinda funny. Then out of nowhere, one of the guys from the museum pops up We end up running around chasing trains, checking old crossings and towers, a dismantled yard, a point where three main lines come together to head into town and the yard... (I think that's right, he was a little tough to understand at times.) Saw one of the trains we saw leave the yard (we had been watching him all day and actually gave up on him) coming and chased him a bit.
A good boys-day-out :thumbsup:
Anyway... I gotta get back to work here :lol_hitting: You know how it is... I could go on all day :laugh:
I'd been to the museum once before (oh yeah, we even got freebies when leaving!!), but been to the yard countless times before with my wife and daughter, but that was 10 or so years ago.
Cool, now me and the boy can do it...
Yeah, yeah... pics!! The doggone camera was in the car and we ended up taking the truck. Next time So much to see... it'd be a hundred pics+ !!!!
Welp, y'all have a good one I'm going back to crying on the kitchen table, er, I mean, doing the bills!! Whaaaa!!!!
L8R
(sheesh... did a preview post... sorry, guys!!! Like I said... could go on all day!!!)
Wanted to share with my train friends, I took my 6yo son Nick to the Houston Train Museum last weekend. It happens to be spittin' distance from UP's Englewood Yard
A hump yard, at that :thumbsup:He really liked the museum. You walk thru about 6~7 coupled passenger cars before exiting that part. They have all sorts of old memorabilia, videos going here and there, display cases. Most of the cars are still in need of restoration, but it still way-cool to see the old accommodations, the sleeping areas, etc., especially for a kid ("they're so small!!"). They also had a new arrival, a passenger coach, almost in better shape than the rest but missing trucks, sitting on a flat car. Three switcher locos, a really cool helium-tank car, a few other items... a little speeder-like thing...really cool. And I was told they had two cabooses sitting on a siding off site because they couldn't get their switch to work or something. We'll have to go back
They also have an HO layout (with the museum and it's cars modeled, of course) in a passenger car, off by itself. Thomas and the crew are there for the youngins'... It wasn't running too well, but still cool.
Then off to Englewood... man, that place is freaking HUGE!!! A sign of the poor state of railroad business (tho I hear it's picking up) were thirty-something UP locos, looking coupled, sitting off in the back, unused. It looked pretty cool to see such a lash-up!!! We watched the hump in action- too cool for a little dude. He thought it was great. We saw three or four of the new ultra-low emissions GenSets... funny looking, but in a cool way.
Anyway, things weren't hopping as much as I hoped, he was starting to get bored, I guess, so we decided to make one more stop for a couple minutes and if nothing happened, we'd leave.
We ended up staying another hour or so
It was kinda funny. Then out of nowhere, one of the guys from the museum pops up We end up running around chasing trains, checking old crossings and towers, a dismantled yard, a point where three main lines come together to head into town and the yard... (I think that's right, he was a little tough to understand at times.) Saw one of the trains we saw leave the yard (we had been watching him all day and actually gave up on him) coming and chased him a bit. A good boys-day-out :thumbsup:
Anyway... I gotta get back to work here :lol_hitting: You know how it is... I could go on all day :laugh:
I'd been to the museum once before (oh yeah, we even got freebies when leaving!!), but been to the yard countless times before with my wife and daughter, but that was 10 or so years ago.
Cool, now me and the boy can do it...
Yeah, yeah... pics!! The doggone camera was in the car and we ended up taking the truck. Next time
So much to see... it'd be a hundred pics+ !!!!Welp, y'all have a good one
I'm going back to crying on the kitchen table, er, I mean, doing the bills!! Whaaaa!!!!L8R
(sheesh... did a preview post... sorry, guys!!! Like I said... could go on all day
!!!)
