Podcasts about winterail

Bob and Elizabeth host this week as they talk about their visit to Winterail.  After 38 years in Stockton, Winterail has moved to Corvallis, OR.  It promises to be an interesting weekend as we head to Portland to ride Tri-Met's Westside Express, photograph stations on the way to Corvallis, attend the Friday night Pizza party and Slide Show, spend Saturday attending the various Winterail programs and swap meet  and finish the weekend riding behind McCloud River 25 on the Oregon Coast Scenic on Sunday.

This is the Amazing Chris Guenzler final LTT Show that he will host. What railfan trips are you planning in 2015? Call in this week and let everyone know where your headed, what are you planning on doing while your there? Will you be riding, photographing or just watching?  Do you plan to go to Steamtown?  Strasburg? Sandpatch?  Horseshoe Curve?  Cajon Pass?  Winterail?  Summerail? the 2015 NRHS Convention?  How about the 2015 La Plata Railfan event? Any others?  Do you work with a railroad museum?  Do you ride tourist trains?  Be sure and call in to 646-716-7106, or post your plans to our Facebook or Twitter pages. The Amazing Chris Guenzler will be hosting this week's episode, so call in and let Chris know what your itinerary is. 

Winterail, the west coast's premier railroadiana and multimedia show, celebrated its 35th year on March 9th.  Bob and Elizabeth attended and will be reporting on the event along with pre- and post-Winterail trips. Please join us at 10:00 AM Pacific/1:00 PM Eastern by listening live at http://www.letstalktrains.com, joining in the conversation by calling (646) 716-7106 or in the chat room at http://www.letstalktrains.com/chat.  

The Amazing Chris Guenzler will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Winterail 2012 in Stockton California that is always held the 2nd Weekend in March. He will share with you how he gets to Stockton then the Friday Night Railfan Magazine and NRHS Pizza Party where he shows he Year of Trains in the Life of Chris Guenzler every year and all the programs at that event. Saturday the Winterail Swap Meet is talked about then all the programs on that day are talked about plus the Winterail Hall Of Fame winner is anounced. He tells you what we did on Sunday before heading home.

The Amazing Chris Guenzler ended the year 2011 on a sad note. We start this trip off with the Sad Trip due to the death of Bruce Guenzler to La Plata, Winterail 2011 and the Filmore & Western Trip were covered. Chris did the PRS 75 Year Excursion Tehachapi and Palmdale Cutoff Trip and then did theCoast Starlight Detour over Altamont Pass and the Tehachapi Loop. Enjoy all of these trips and more on this Lets Talk Train show for this week.

This is about all trip I have taken since I taken from the last time I hosted  from 2/3 to 6/17/2010. Chris will tell you about his trips, what he sees and what he experiences. He will take you to Oregon, Washington and British Columbia then onto  to La Plata, Missouri, Winterail 2010 then to Kansas then onto Albany,    Tunkhannock to Jim Thorpe then Danbury to ride into Grand Central and the Danbury RR Museum then the Connect the Dots Rare Mileage Trips then back to New York City. Join us for this great show.

Let's Talk Trains returns to live programming on Saturday as Bob and Elizabeth Alkire host the show. Their guest will be Scott Lothes who presented a program at Winterail titled Along Steam's Last Mainline. Mr Lothes is a free lance photographer and writer. He is also a project director for the Center for Railroad Photography and Art. His work appears frequently in Trains Magazine and other rail publications. His travel writings have been published by the Oregonian newspaper in Portland and Matador Travel. Join us and our regular callers at 10:00 AM Pacific Time. The telephone number 646-716-7106

SP4449 Heads North, June 1984I just recently had some super8 movies I shot during the 1980's converted to digital video. This short movie clip was made of the World's Fair Daylight returning to Portland in 1984. My then very young sons and I chased the train north. This video is unpublished and features a full daylight train with McCloud steam, SP, Amtrak and even some BCR Alco action. Since the film was silent, some music from the band Everyday Jones was dubbed in to give it a bit of a Winterail flavor.Technorati Tags: Trains, Railroads, Railroading, Esspee, train video, trackwarrants, 4449, Track Warrants, ssloansjca

The Bill Darrough Story As shown at Winterail 2007 The photos in this show were taken by Bill Darrough and/or are from the collection of Bill and Jack Darrough. This is an amazing collection of photographs. In a conversation with Bill Darrough's brother Jack in August of 1988 Jack said, "Bill died in 1942, he was 22 years-old. He suffered from severe teenage acne and they had treated it with massive doses of radiation, which at the time was thought harmless. The radiation cleared his acne but Bill died of cancer." According to Jack, he and Bill came from a railroad family. The members of a railroaders family were then given passes and could travel free on the nation's passenger trains. The period that Bill lived in was near the climax of the era of steam railroading in this country. Jack said Bill would pack two suitcases, one with film and the other with sandwiches and the young man would go on trips alone photographing trains. In my opinion had he lived he would have been one of the greatest railroad photographers of the twentieth century. It is an amazing story and so my son Ken and I are trying to tell it. This 20 minute quicktime seven video breaks my rules for this podcast. Generally, I plan to keep these videos to less than 15 minutes in length. I would like to have as many of these videos as I can short enough to be viewed on a coffee break.

The Bill Darrough Story As shown at Winterail 2007 The photos in this show were taken by Bill Darrough and/or are from the collection of Bill and Jack Darrough. This is an amazing collection of photographs. In a conversation with Bill Darrough's brother Jack in August of 1988 Jack said, "Bill died in 1942, he was 22 years-old. He suffered from severe teenage acne and they had treated it with massive doses of radiation, which at the time was thought harmless. The radiation cleared his acne but Bill died of cancer." According to Jack, he and Bill came from a railroad family. The members of a railroaders family were then given passes and could travel free on the nation's passenger trains. The period that Bill lived in was near the climax of the era of steam railroading in this country. Jack said Bill would pack two suitcases, one with film and the other with sandwiches and the young man would go on trips alone photographing trains. In my opinion had he lived he would have been one of the greatest railroad photographers of the twentieth century. It is an amazing story and so my son Ken and I are trying to tell it. This 20 minute quicktime seven video breaks my rules for this podcast. Generally, I plan to keep these videos to less than 15 minutes in length. I would like to have as many of these videos as I can short enough to be viewed on a coffee break. Technorati Tags: Trains, Railroads, Railroading, Esspee, train video, trackwarrants, Bill Darrough, Track Warrants, ssloansjca