New guy here!
 

I hail from western North Carolina in the US of A. Just finished a 13 month tour in Iraq as a civilian contractor and am taking a few months off. I'm planning a trip crosscountry to visit some railroad hotspots. May even go to Canada as I've always wanted to ride the Algoma Central Railway. Yeah,I know it's winter but I don't care! :) Maybe I can get some ideas from you good folks on where to go to satisfy my trainwatching addiction!

Welcome to the Forum Bridgewater. Hope you have a good trip and find plenty of good Railways. I had a very enjoyable visit to Roaring Camp Railroad near Santa Cruz in California last Easter. 3 Truck Shay up through the redwoods on some very steep grades. Photos in my Gallery.

Look forward to your posts and photos about your trip.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Hi Bridgewater Welcome to the Forum.

Hello Bridgewater and welcome to the Railway Forum. I live not far from the Summerset town of Bridgewater in England.

Hi Bridgewater
For a miniute i thought you were from my neck of the woods.
Welcome to the forum i hope you enjoy it.

All the best
ccmmick.

Welcome to the forum, you got any hardcore porn video's of heavilly laden Alco's?

Now is that a bit naughty or what Anon :confused: :confused:.

ccmmick

Alco's are wonderful claggy diesel's - porn! ;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vista-dome/3913717611/

lol, not titties, there's other sites for them! ;)

What sites are they on Anon please tell me :p :p.

ccmmick.

titties or alco's? lol if its titties it depends if you can read Japanese or not! :o

Now that IS clag.;):D

If it's titties who needs to read ?:D

Actually I took the name 'Bridgewater' from a RR station that once existed a few miles from my home. There is nothing there nowadays but a passing track. I have an old black & white photo of the station that was taken back in the 1920's. It's the only photo of the Bridgewater station in existence as far as I know.

Welcome..........:)

Lost me with this lot :D but welcome to the forum anyway.

48111

Welcome aboard Bridgewater. Hope you enjoy our community

Regards
Alan

Yo Bridgewater, welcome to our forum.

Bet you're finding life a bit 'quiet' now you're out of Iraq. ;)

Tell me, do they run trains out there ?

Regards,
FP

Hello Bridgewater and a warm welcome to the forum.

Regards, 62440.

I never saw a train running while there. My job was driving a fuel truck in military convoys to the different bases in southern Iraq so I got to see a bit of the country. All I recall seeing was rusting track and what appeared to be abandoned sand covered right-of-ways. Pretty depressing really. Perhaps there are trains running in Iraq but if so, I never saw 'em

Glad to be out of the 13th century and back in the 21st! :)

I saw a recent picture somewhere of a passenger train in Baghdad (taken by a squaddie) showing an immaculate Chinese built DF clone hauling a box car which seemed to be operating a passenger service............