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Gavin Sowry

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Yeah, but I've got the blisters. A pal of mine took the Empire Builder from Chicago to Seattle, and was very disappointed to find that passing through one of America's greatest national wonders, the Glacier National Park, all happened at night.

Some others say that crossing the Canadian prairies is better done at night, as there is more of interest to see................Mrs tac and I took five days to do it, and were entranced by the birdish wildlife and places to go off-route. I'd do it again in a New York minute.

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Westbound Empire Builder, Glacier Park.
 

PhilP

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Rubbish painting..

You'd 'ave thought they'd 'ave got the stripes to line up?! :rolleyes:
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I have a 3.4% grade and the longest train is 55 cars, so when I stringline, it's a fair amount of time putting them back in the rails!

Greg

.... You can save that time by adding some DPUs (distributed power units) to your train ....

 

Gavin Sowry

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Rubbish painting..

You'd 'ave thought they'd 'ave got the stripes to line up?! :rolleyes:
:D:D:D

Strange that, I have an N scale model of that entire train, and the stripes don't line up either.