Monday, April 19, 2010

About the Most Fun You Can Have With Your Clothes On

The Your Hand on the Throttle course at the Essex Valley Railroad.

This is the locomotive for the 2010 course; different engine will be used next year, as #97 is going in for rebuilding.

This is the "office", as it were:

The lever at the top is the throttle. The vertical lever with the red handgrip is the reverser, also known as the "Johnson Bar". The two brass levers are the brakes; one for the train, one for just the engine and tender.

This is the view from the cab.

If you're a railfan, you need to do this. It's the best money you will ever spend.
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4 comments:

  1. SkinnyDennis4/19/2010 3:56 PM

    EB, I found out the Nevada Railroad Museum in Carson has a program like this. I'll be looking into it. They're only 4 hours away.

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  2. Comrade Misfit4/19/2010 4:11 PM

    So I see. A little more expensive than the CTVRR, but you get almost double the time.

    Go for it. You won't regret it.

    (And screw doing the diesel.)

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  3. Comrade Misfit4/19/2010 4:16 PM

    Lot further, too, and through a tunnel! You get maybe 8 miles or so on the CTVRR. And on the CTVRR, they can't turn the engine around, you have to run it ass-first half of the time.

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  4. PhysioProf4/19/2010 9:38 PM

    Awesome!!!!

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