Scottygotfans Train (2025)

FAQs

Is La Bestia a real train? ›

Each month, Mexican freight trains unwillingly serve thousands of undocumented people from across Latin America and beyond, and they call these trains la bestia, or The Beast.

Today, the rail line has been converted into the Brown's Creek State Bike Trail and the old train depot is a live performance theater for downtown Stillwater named after its history- The Zephyr Theatre.

In August 2011, the Amador County museum sold the locomotive replica to the Durango Railroad Historical Society in Durango, Colorado. The model has been restored to its original state as the Emma Sweeny, and is on public display under shelter in Santa Rita Park in Durango.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC 4449

Beginning with the 4449 in 1974, each locomotive was eventually moved to the Brooklyn Roundouse in SE Portland. Since moving from Oaks Park, volunteers have spent thousands of hours restoring and caring for these beautiful locomotives. Two are now operational and one is continuing to be restored.

It is estimated that each year, between 400,000 and 500,000 migrants, the majority of whom are from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, ride atop these trains in the effort to reach the United States.

Central Americans coming to the United States often take a perilous thousand-mile journey across Mexico. And thousands take that trip riding a freight train so dangerous they call it the train of death.

The modern California Zephyr uses mostly the same route as the original east of Winnemucca, Nevada. The train uses the route of the former City of San Francisco, along the Overland Route (First transcontinental railroad), between Elko, Nevada, and Sacramento.

Note: Unfortunately, the Minnesota Zephyr Dinner Train is no longer running. A Stillwater tourism icon for more than two decades, The Zephyr has carried more than a million passengers while cruising back and forth along a 6-mile route north of Stillwater and along the bluffs of the St.

From what data I can find, the Zephyr travels at an average speed of 55 mph (89 km/h), with a top speed of 79 mph (127 km/h). Of course, understand that the California Zephyr is a senic long-haul service, with 33 stops between Chicago, Illinois and Emeryville, California.

Mallard retired from service in 1963 and was subsequently preserved in 1964 by the British Transport Commission. Mallard entered the National Railway Museum's collection in 1975. It was restored to working order at York, between 1982 and 1988 and completed a limited number of runs until 1989.

Where is the big boy train now? ›

The massive engines normally operated between Ogden, Utah, and Cheyenne, Wyo. There are seven Big Boys on public display in various cities around the country. They can be found in St. Louis, Missouri; Dallas, Texas; Omaha, Nebraska; Denver, Colorado; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Green Bay, Wisconsin; and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

4014 is the world's largest operating steam locomotive. On its website, the railroad company reflects on the history of Big Boys, which started as 25 trains that were 132 feet long and originally weighed 1.2 million pounds. Today, all are out of service, and some are on display – except for one.

The last meter-gauge and narrow-gauge steam locomotives in regular service were retired in 2000. After being withdrawn from service, most steam locomotives were scrapped, though some have been preserved in various railway museums. The only steam locomotives remaining in regular service are on India's heritage lines.

The ICE (InterCity Express) is a high-speed train that connects all major cities in Germany. With speeds up to 300km/h, this is one of the fastest ways to travel between cities such as Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne. The ICE has international connections to the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Austria.

Nature never intended that a railroad should be built through magnificent Carriso Gorge. When surveys were being made for the San Diego and Arizona Railway, it was called the “impossible railroad” by several reputable engineers. But the S. D. & A. meandered the length of the Gorge by a tortuous route.

On the New York City Subway, a "money train" was first mentioned in 1905, a year after the system opened. Their trains were converted from subway cars that have been removed from passenger service. This has since been discontinued, with the last service running in January 2006.

The Polar Express, as seen in the movie, was loosely based on a real locomotive, although the train as a whole and the route it takes is (obviously) entirely fictional.

CSX #8888, an SD40-2, ran away under power without a crew after the engineer incorrectly set the locomotive's dynamic brake and was unable to get back into the locomotive after it began moving.

The train used for the movie, the “Nippon Speed line” is fictional, although it bears some similarities to the real Shinkansen on the line between Tokyo and Kyoto.