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trains · **Joined:** Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:06 pm **Posts:** 38

who here has driven a real life? i have buts its shocking because i was 12 when i did(only been a year) American diesels are harder to drive than i thought.

bobluzok · **Joined:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:54 am **Posts:** 56

My uncle has his own railroad in Mexico, and he'll teach me how to drive some of his engines!

trains · **Joined:** Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:06 pm **Posts:** 38

cool...mexican trains

but i'd rather the CSX AC4400 with more power *Tim the Toolman Taylor grunt*

bobluzok · **Joined:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:54 am **Posts:** 56

Same here. I forget which museum in California, but one of them allows you to drive a diesel for 120 dollars.

trains · **Joined:** Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:06 pm **Posts:** 38

isn't it like a switcher?

bobluzok · **Joined:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:54 am **Posts:** 56

No, something like a Dash 9, I think.

ryan29 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:47 am

one of my dads friends has one of those seven and one quater gauge ride on steam engines i'm already learning how to drive it

TEngine · **Joined:** Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:55 am **Posts:** 50

I Once RODE ON BOARD A BLACK 5!!!

Dean_Forest · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:37 pm

I have driven a DMU and ridden on a Pannier, and 08 and a 31 (no passengers on board of course!)

StanierJack · **Joined:** Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:35 pm **Posts:** 18

Cabbed Russel on the WHR, The Mid Hants Thomas, a few other engines and Rocket at the NRM museum.

soupdragon90 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:10 pm

I've never been in the cab of a steam or a diesel engine, but when I was little I stood on the footplate of a mostly accurate Thomas replica. There were 2 problems with it though: 1. The wheels were way too small and spaced apart, and 2. it had no side rods on its wheels.

trains · **Joined:** Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:06 pm **Posts:** 38

where was it? do you have any pics of it?

soupdragon90 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:33 pm

Trains, It was up at the Conway Senic Railroad in New Hampshire, and yes, I do have some pictures. However, they are all one my Windows 95 computer in my room, and since the floppy drive on the compputer in my attic (which I am using at the moment) no longer works, I shall have to upload them to a pc in my schoo, during my computer class, then load them onto my flash drive, then to my photobucket account.

TEngine, it must have been great to actually ride in a Black Five. Isn't Henry supposed to be a Balck Five?

StannierJack, you got to be in Russel's cab on the Welsh Highland Railway? Very nice, too bad it hasn't been repaired yet. And the Watercress Line(MHR) Thomas is my personal favourite Thomas replica, mslty because of the moving eyes.

trains · **Joined:** Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:06 pm **Posts:** 38

ah....good old Conway...saw Thomas there years ago but he had pistons and the wheels were normal...dont know when you went..

soupdragon90 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:15 pm

I went a very long time ago, i was only six or seven, i don't remember :p
But here are the pictures. I swear I had my picture taken with Sir Topham Hatt/The Fat Controller as well, but I've never found the picture...but here they are anyway.
http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff350/soupdragon90/JimThomasdriver.jpg
http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff350/soupdragon90/Thomas.jpg
http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff350/soupdragon90/UsThomas.jpg

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