This probably best fits here. Fifteen Beautiful Sights Best Seen By Train.
Got a problem with #14 …if that train is passing over the Market St bridge there is gonna issues! That would actually be the old Reading or the now NS Lurgan Branch viaduct over the Susquehanna River. The market st bridge was originally a trolley line 2 more bridges up river and was taken out buy a flood in 1996(I believe)
I got paid to see this one (Number 8)!
Spent a month working a work train between CTC Townsend (just South of Vancouver, BC), and Everett, WA. We dumped a ton of rip rap and ballast along the line. Spending 12 hours a day dumping ballast at 1-2 mph ain’t my type of a fun trip… But with OT after 8 hours, plus work train rate, plus no lunch, and a Road Master that was willing to open his budget to pay the train crew it made it worth while. 
WOW!!!
They managed to get the WP&YR twice into those 15 sights. My money is on: “Some dummy doesn’t know that it runs from Skagway, Alaska to Carcross, Yukon, crossing the border from the USA into Canada near White Pass Summit, which is located in British Columbia.”
Yep, way to complicated to grasp!
OTOH Monday and Tuesday we were on a bus trip and I had to correct the tour director three times (just the most glaring errors). Always amazes me how they get things “mixed up”.
They are still pretty pictures…
HJ - If it wasn’t for misinformation there would hardly be any information at all :]
Well it does say " Fifteen Beautiful Sights Best Seen By Train.’" it doesn’t say “Beautiful Sights Best Seen from 15 Different Trains”.
Yeah, yeah, whatever.
Point is that some people look at pictures and/or read a book, but can’t relate to what they’re looking at or reading about.
Jon got it spot on.
Steve Featherkile said:
This probably best fits here. Fifteen Beautiful Sights Best Seen By Train.
They are nice pictures, but they sure don’t seem like you need to be on the train to see them.
In fact, most seem to be pictures of a train.
Oh well, as Jon said…
BTW the train in the “Jungfrau Bahn” picture belongs to the Wenger Alp Bahn (WAB) not the Jungfrau Bahn (JB).
This is a picture of their historic rolling stock.
(http://www.htr.ch/images_htr/35052_6.jpg)
And this is the modern stuff
(http://www.bahnbilder.de/1024/jungfraubahn-jb-triebwagen-bdhe-48-548353.jpg)
The mountains are the same, except the glaciers are retreating.
The line is 9km long, 7 of which are in tunnels.
If God made a perfect day, you guys would be pissed because it wasn’t a day sooner.
Steve Featherkile said:
If God made a perfect day, you guys would be pissed because it wasn’t a day sooner.
Yeah well, yesterday was another “just about perfect” rail fanning day.
Really perfect would have been the two trains crossing the Cisco bridges at the same time.
OTOH it could have/would have/should have been the case if … oh never mind. It will happen one day … while I’m filming
BTW I’ve been asked umpteen times if I’ve been on the Rocky Mountaineer or The Canadian, my standard answer: “Not yet, I like to get the trains in the glorious landscape they run through.”