The locomotives from The Fugitive, left to gently decay where they landed after the stunt was filmed.

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Also, at 3:29...playing chicken with the train.

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(Not my video)

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For those of you here who have an interest in Canadian rail, particularly passenger rail, I've got an LJ community for you:

viarail_fandom

I did choose the name specifically with the idea of focusing on VIA Rail alone, but have since rethought that, given the passenger rail systems operating at the provincial and regional/municipal levels across Canada. ( Read more... )

And perhaps a Darwin Award. For grief's sake, people, this is why you stay OFF railroad rights-of-way. ESPECIALLY TRESTLEShttp://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/27/north.carolina.ghost.train/index.html?hpt=T2Read more... )

Looking for recommendations from the rest of the community on this one!

I swear Amtrak could not PLAN to make me this annoyed. I was out running some errands today and since I was driving past the station I thought I'd stop and see if there was a train scheduled. And, as it turned out, there was one due in five minutes. So I went out onto the platform with my camera and waited. And waited. In bitter cold weather with a ( Read more... )

Of railroad things, that is. I have a dish that was given to me by my grandmother. Her brother worked for the Michigan Central Railroad all his life. And at one point during that time he acquired a piece of china from one of the dining cars. I'm not sure if it's a tureen or a bowl or what, but I love it. Pics and more information beneath the cut:

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"XXL" performed by Mylène Farmer and directed by Marcus Nispel (1995)

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Straight out of a family album, actually. I have no information about it whatsoever, other than it looks a bit like a mogul, and might have been taken anywhere between the late 1800s and the early 1900s, and either in central Ontario, Canada, or somewhere in Michigan. I don't even know if the person leaning out of a cab is a relative. It stands to ( Read more... )

"Last Friday in Kent, Washington, a train hit a car transporter stopped on the rails. Nobody was injured in the incident, but the train engine made off with a sweet new Cadillac DTS hood ornament."


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