a good slow look at the modern Union Pacific locomotives, on parade basically.

regardless of the info about the "Derail" the above video is useless at showing the derail

See the below video instead. The above is good for admiring the big ol trains though. One axel slipped off, no big deal. It moved a couple of feet, did no damage to anything.

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McDonalds in railroad cars... might be the only one in the world that isn't in a building, but in freightcars. Barstow Station

It is empty in these photos because I got there about closing time.

From their website, a McDonalds in Barstow (California on route 66, at the intersection of Interstates 40 and 15)  was the biggest in the world in the 1970's, and a guy bought it, plus bought the railroad cars, and put together 17 cars. He made the combined cars connected to use as a multi restaurant establishment, and now it has a Panda Express, McDonalds, Greyhound Bus line, a liquor store and a ice cream store. http://www.barstowstation.net/

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see your world from a different view, make a rail bike

found on http://velospace.org/node/42235

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The railway museums that I know of, and am learning about, in Southern California... a lot more of them then I would have guessed

http://www.oerm.org/pages/visinfo.html for directions and the rest of the 2012 calendar of events is at http://www.oerm.org/pages/calendar.html
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The Poway railway museum is at http://www.powaymidlandrr.org/default.htm and I posted about it a couple years ago: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/06/any-day-around-trains-is-good-day.html

get the links and check out their websites at http://www.daytrippen.com/pacific-southwest-railway-museum.html

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