It's just been announced the the Saturday Rock Island trip will be a triple header with 261 and the two QJ's. Now I gotta drive down there. Sigh. Grin.

Doug

Hope you do come down, Doug. It'd be nice to meet you.

I'll be there throughout the weekend, but unfortunately not on the days for which I've purchased tickets. My life has dictated I get back to Chicago Sunday morning. No loss, however. It's for a good cause.

If any other fellow RYPNers will be there, say hello. I'll be driving a blue Jeep Liberty and will probably have on an NKP 765 jacket if I'm out foaming and not working.

The Motel 6 in Davenport still has open rooms.

Kelly Lynch

Didn't see that one coming! ;) Wish I was in the area. Kelly- couldn't you stick a certain Lima in your pocket and make it a quadruple header?

Joshua

But if he did bring down a certain Lima to add to the consist, there wouldn't be anything to couple it to this side of Denver that would produce any appropriate stack sound.............

Having ridden behind two QUADRUPLE-headers in my day-- Cass and the one EBT quad-header one year--I have to agree with Hal Lewis and Jim Boyd that one would have to couple such a consist to Bald Knob Mountain itself to get adequate stack talk out of the locos for the foamers...................

Just out of curiosity, when was the last main line triple header?

Aaron Z
Oregon Coast Scenic RR
www.ocsr.net

Now, we wouldn't want to upstage our QJ Chinese ambassadors would we? ;)

While this will be a great event, the proof of the pudding will be what one QJ can do hauling freight for a living in the real world. I'm sort of looking forward to seeing that, once all the foamers go home with lots of photos.

Wish I could be there, though.

dave

If you mean in the US:

Probably 4501/611/1218 from Chattanooga to Ooltewah (about 15-20 miles) in November 1991.

Prior to that, 587/611/1218 from Roanoke to Lynchburg (about 50 miles) in July 1989.

There was 328/1003/2719 in August 1998 on a branchline in MN/WI, as well.

JAC

There's a simple reason they're using the 261 on Sat.... it brought the train down from Minneapolis and has to be turned to go home.

Bob H.

Who says mainline steam is dead!

Yes, it happens from time to time.
And we just got done running two days of trips on the BNSF without Amtrak backing!
Mark D.

In addition to the ones John noted, the Grand Canyon RR ran a tripleheader for a photo runby at the 2002 NRHS convention. The engines were 3751, 4960, and (I think) 29. That's the most recent tripleheader I can think of, unless C&TS has run a tripleheader more recently.

Chris.

Chris, it was 18. Another non-mainline tripleheader occurred at the Steamtown grand opening on July 4, 1995, with RBM&N 425, and Steamtown's 2317 and 3254.

John,

Isn't the C&TS a main line? ;-)

When did they run their last tripple header for the fall color trips?

Well, being the finicky sort, I'd say that the "D&RGW Alamosa - Durango line" was a main line, but that the C&TS is not.

I know they ran at least one tripleheader in 2001, and maybe (probably) 2002.

JAC