Western Railroad Discussion > Todays Where is it

#1-The train.

#2-View north.

#3-View south.

And it was 112 degrees, in the shade!-BMT

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Have no idea BMT, thinking Salton Sea?

Bertram ???


TCS - not well-versed on my SP station names

Ludlow, CA

NscaleMike Wrote:
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> Have no idea BMT, thinking Salton Sea?


That's the view to the south, Mike. Just need a station name.-BMT

West end of Bertram.

Between Salton and Ferrum, unless that's the Pacific Ocean and you're on some major detour.

TopcoatSmith Wrote:
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> Bertram ???
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> TCS - not well-versed on my SP station names

Bingo! Give that man a cigar.
Train was the MFWWC-10. Was a little on the warm side though. I don't know how the old railroaders did it, sitting in the cab of a steam engine going across the desert in this kind of heat. It was bad enough before we got air conditioned cabs, now we're spoiled. No A/C, no go.-BMT

UPNW2-1083 Wrote:
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> TopcoatSmith Wrote:
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I don't know how the old railroaders
> did it, sitting in the cab of a steam engine going
> across the desert in this kind of heat. It was bad
> enough before we got air conditioned cabs, now
> we're spoiled. No A/C, no go.-BMT

Hell, that's easy Brian. They were all a bunch of cantankerous old Buzzards.

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SLOCONDR

When was the last time there was ever **any** water in the dry lakebed near there, much less that much?!?! AAAAHHH - buzzer! But thanks for playing....

Mortmar of course.
—Mac

When I was in high school, I got to know one of the custodians who had been a fireman on the Lehigh Valley, then he came out west to work for the SP. He said he lasted about two weeks working out of Indio in mid-summer on steam engines.

D F W


> Train was the MFWWC-10. Was a little on the warm
> I don't know how the old railroaders
> did it, sitting in the cab of a steam engine going
> across the desert in this kind of heat. It was bad
> enough before we got air conditioned cabs, now
> we're spoiled. No A/C, no go.-BMT

Being in a hot steam engine cab had a plus side to it- it seemed downright breezy when you got out of the cab! My late uncle worked El Centro for awhile, probably late 40's or early 50's, and mentioned a yardmaster or trainmaster that always wore a Panama hat. The train crew got a kick out of it when the steamer popped off and "oiled" the Panama hat!

mapboy

MacBeau Wrote:
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> Mortmar of course.
> —Mac


I'll save that one for another day.-BMT