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jeepercrna

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train shots, yakima canyon. Bnsf uses this route to return empty cars going east from western washington, keeps the empties off the more level route thru the columbia river gorge and up western washington.CANYON 213.jpg
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Sandpatch

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Shot this today in Dillon, SC of a southbound CSX local. Back in the golden era, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad crossed the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad just north of here, but these days it's all CSX and this track is used to run trains between the huge former SAL yard in Hamlet, NC and the ACL mainline which this train is entering. I wish I had Ron's scenery to work with! All I get is sandhills and pine trees. :numbness:

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bordsmnj

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There are two that I know of and I've never seen the "blue" one. This one is the "red" one which tours the western U.S. The cars look to be older streamliner style? not a great pic but you can see up close:
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bordsmnj said:
There are two that I know of and I've never seen the "blue" one. This one is the "red" one which tours the western U.S. The cars look to be older streamliner style? not a great pic but you can see up close:
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There's also a "gold" one that is supposed to be in WPB in December.
 
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Marilynne said:
There's also a "gold" one that is supposed to be in WPB in December.
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Currently, the circus maintains two circus train-based shows, the Blue Tour and the Red Tour, as well as the truck-based Gold Tour (which began in 2003).[SUP][9][/SUP] Each train is a mile long with roughly 60 cars: 40 passenger cars and 20 freight.[SUP][10][/SUP] Rolling stock belonging to the circus bears the reporting mark "RBBX". The Blue and Red Tours present a full three-ring production for two years each (taking off the month of December), visiting alternating major cities each year. Each train presents a different "edition" of the show, using a numbering scheme that dates back to circus origins in 1871 — the first year of P.T. Barnum's show. The Blue Tour presents the even-numbered editions on a two-year tour (beginning each even-numbered year), and the Red Tour presents the odd-numbered editions on the same two-year tour (beginning each odd-numbered year). The Gold Tour presents a scaled-back, single-ring version of the show, designed to serve smaller markets deemed incapable of supporting the three-ring versions.
In the 1950s there was one gigantic train systems comprising three separate train loads that brought the main show to the big cities. The first train load was comprised 22 cars and had the tents and the workers to set them up; the second section comprised 28 cars and carried the canvasmen, ushers and sideshow workers; the third section 19 sleeping cars for the performers.[SUP][11][/SUP]
 
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nikonpup said:
Currently, the circus maintains two circus train-based shows, the Blue Tour and the Red Tour, as well as the truck-based Gold Tour (which began in 2003).[SUP][9][/SUP] Each train is a mile long with roughly 60 cars: 40 passenger cars and 20 freight.[SUP][10][/SUP] Rolling stock belonging to the circus bears the reporting mark "RBBX". The Blue and Red Tours present a full three-ring production for two years each (taking off the month of December), visiting alternating major cities each year. Each train presents a different "edition" of the show, using a numbering scheme that dates back to circus origins in 1871 — the first year of P.T. Barnum's show. The Blue Tour presents the even-numbered editions on a two-year tour (beginning each even-numbered year), and the Red Tour presents the odd-numbered editions on the same two-year tour (beginning each odd-numbered year). The Gold Tour presents a scaled-back, single-ring version of the show, designed to serve smaller markets deemed incapable of supporting the three-ring versions.
In the 1950s there was one gigantic train systems comprising three separate train loads that brought the main show to the big cities. The first train load was comprised 22 cars and had the tents and the workers to set them up; the second section comprised 28 cars and carried the canvasmen, ushers and sideshow workers; the third section 19 sleeping cars for the performers.[SUP][11][/SUP]
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that's awesome:cool:
 
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bordsmnj said:
There are two that I know of and I've never seen the "blue" one. This one is the "red" one which tours the western U.S. The cars look to be older streamliner style? not a great pic but you can see up close:
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The "red" one will be heading down to Miami in early January. Missed it last year. We were at the wrong track. I was told it would be on the Amtrak line and it wasn't.
 
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nikonpup said:
Currently, the circus maintains two circus train-based shows, the Blue Tour and the Red Tour, as well as the truck-based Gold Tour (which began in 2003).[SUP][9][/SUP] Each train is a mile long with roughly 60 cars: 40 passenger cars and 20 freight.[SUP][10][/SUP] Rolling stock belonging to the circus bears the reporting mark "RBBX". The Blue and Red Tours present a full three-ring production for two years each (taking off the month of December), visiting alternating major cities each year. Each train presents a different "edition" of the show, using a numbering scheme that dates back to circus origins in 1871 — the first year of P.T. Barnum's show. The Blue Tour presents the even-numbered editions on a two-year tour (beginning each even-numbered year), and the Red Tour presents the odd-numbered editions on the same two-year tour (beginning each odd-numbered year). The Gold Tour presents a scaled-back, single-ring version of the show, designed to serve smaller markets deemed incapable of supporting the three-ring versions.
In the 1950s there was one gigantic train systems comprising three separate train loads that brought the main show to the big cities. The first train load was comprised 22 cars and had the tents and the workers to set them up; the second section comprised 28 cars and carried the canvasmen, ushers and sideshow workers; the third section 19 sleeping cars for the performers.[SUP][11][/SUP]
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When I worked in WPB, the circus train stopped there every year. Wonder why they decided to truck the circus in this year.

Here's their tour schedule for the circus, not the trains. Schedule
 
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