The Museum of the American Railroad Walking Tour
Description: The Museum of the American Railroad Walking Tour video was shot on March 7th, 2015 on a Saturday afternoon around 1:00pm during a walking tour at the soon to be finished amazing Museum of the American Railroad located in Frisco, Texas!
Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco
The city of Frisco got its name because of the railways and trains that passed through it back in the 1800's. Frisco became a water stop and the railroad companies built a town around it.
It is named after the Frisco Railroad. The St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad to be specific, this was a water stop said President and CEO of the Museum of the American Railroad Bob LaPrelle.
The museum will soon be home to a model railroad design that has been conservatively estimated to be worth over one million dollars.
Through the generosity of the Sanders family in North Dallas, they are giving us a G-Scale, which is the large trains, model railroad layout LaPrelle added.
The railroad display is like nothing you have ever seen. Stephen Sanders designed and built the twelve functioning trains lines running through the 2500 square foot, three stories high, display room build over the garage in their Preston Hollow home.
The amazingly detailed set winds through a mock up of Colorado, New Mexico, West Texas and eventually passes into a replica of Dallas in the 1950's. Oh, and let's not forget the fully functioning drive-in theater.
This is an actual drive-in movie theater out in west Texas called the Palo-Duro Drive-In Theater said Jane Sanders as she walked me through the fantastic display.
Steve Sanders passed away about four years ago, after the completion of the train display, but his legacy and love of trains will live on at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco later this year.
It will be real sad to see it go, but he wanted a lot of people to see it so it's going to work out great Jane added with a smile.
JD Ryan is riding the rails...Around Town!
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Amtrak Exhibit Train Vists The Museum Of American Railroad, Frisco Texas
On September 24th 2016, The Amtrak Exhibit Train visited North Texas this year on a hot afternoon in The Museum Of American Railroad, Frisco Texas. I only went this day since I live about an hour away. While I was enjoying seeing the Amtrak Exhibit Train, I was feeling happy at the same time because I got to see my very first Amtrak Heritage Unit 406 Phase 3 NPCU and the Amtrak 156 Phase I Heritage.
Something that we don't normally see everyday here in North Texas is that Amtrak doesn't run any trains at all here by the BNSF Madill Sub.
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5/31/2011 Ground Breaking in Frisco Texas for the New Museum of the American Railroad
Its been a long time coming, but finally the Museum of the American Railroad is on its way. The machinery in the background was already doing site grading for the installation of track.
Welcome To Texas: Museum Of The American Railroad
For decades the museum was located at Fair Park, but a few years ago, they rolled north to Collin County and set up shop in Frisco. It’s a place with a railroad history.
Trains Presents: Big Boy No. 4018 at the Museum of the American Railroad
Take a look at Big Boy No. 4018 at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas, with Trains correspondent Hayley Enoch and museum President Bob LaPrelle. You'll learn what makes the Lone Star State's lone preserved Big Boy special!
Museum of the American Railroad Train Whistles
The State Fair of Texas allowed the Museum of the American Railroad to sound train whistles at 11:55, 1:55, 2:55, and 4:55 if the Chevy Stage was clear. This was the 11:55 sounding on 10/18/2009 last day of the State Fair. Amtrak usually brought in equipment to generate rider interest, so the Amtrak Genesis answers the museum's engines. In the video you get 2 whistles from the museum's engines - the mighty 4018 Big Boy and the Union Terminal 7 Spot whistles. Also heard are a hooter whistle and a Texas and Pacific Passenger Engine whistle.
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Museum of the American Railroad steam engines
The Museum of the American Railroad, formerly known as the Age of Steam Railroad Museum, is a railroad museum in Frisco, Texas. The museum has a large collection of steam, diesel, passenger, and freight railroad equipment, and is noted for allowing guests to walk through some of the equipment on guided tours.
The museum began as a small exhibit at the State Fair of Texas in 1963, and continued as a staple of the annual fair, officially becoming a museum in 1986.[1] It remained at its original site at Fair Park until closing in November 2011.[2] The museum is in the process of fully relocating to Frisco, Texas;[3] the move was based on a strategic plan, called Visions 2006, which called for a comprehensive reorganization of the museum, including new facilities, new governance and new programs.[4] The museum's offices, store, and some exhibits are temporarily housed at the Frisco Heritage Museum while construction continues on the museum's new location two blocks south
BNSF helps railroad museum move to new location
BNSF moved historic locomotives and railcars belonging to the Museum of the American Railroad to its new facility in Frisco, Texas.
Big Boy 4018 Moves to Frisco
The Museum of the American Railroad finalized the move of its rolling stock collection in August 2013 with the epic move of Union Pacific Big Boy 4018. The move from the museums previous location at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas to it's new home in Frisco, Texas drew the attention of railfans from around the world. This video captures the move from Dallas to Frisco. This was the first time this Big Boy has seen the main line in 48 years.
Places to see in ( Dallas - USA )
Places to see in ( Dallas - USA )
Dallas, a modern metropolis in north Texas, is a commercial and cultural hub of the region. Downtown’s Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza commemorates the site of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. In the Arts District, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Crow Collection of Asian Art cover thousands of years of art. The sleek Nasher Sculpture Center showcases contemporary sculpture.
Dallas is the largest and most populated city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, which is also referred to as DFW, North Texas, or The Metroplex. Located in the north central portion of the state, The Metroplex is the most populated area in Texas. The City of Dallas by itself is the third most populated in the state behind Houston and San Antonio. DFW is home to the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League, and you'll regularly be reminded of The Metroplex's mass enthusiasm for the team. With more shopping centers per capita than any other city in the US, Dallas is also known as a shopper's paradise.
Dallas is Texas' most mythical city, with a past and present rich in the stuff that American legends are made of. The 'Big D' is famous for its contributions to popular culture – notably the Cowboys and their cheerleaders, and Dallas, the TV series that once was a worldwide symbol of the USA. An upscale ethos makes for a vaunted dining and shopping scene, where the more conspicuous your consumption, the better.
Many districts in Dallas such as :
Downtown (West End Historic District, Reunion District, Government District, Convention Center District, Arts District, City Center District, Main Street District, Farmers Market District)
Oak Lawn and Uptown (Turtle Creek, Design District, Victory Park, West Village, Cedar Springs)
East Dallas (Lower Greenville, Deep Ellum, Old East Dallas, Lakewood, Casa Linda Estates)
Lake Highlands
North Dallas (Preston Hollow, Far North Dallas)
Park Cities (Highland Park, University Park)
Northwest Dallas (Koreatown, Love Field area)
West Dallas
Oak Cliff (North Oak Cliff, Kessler Park, Bishop Arts District, South Oak Cliff, Cockrell Hill)
South Dallas (Fair Park area, Pleasant Grove, The Cedars, Southside, Exposition Park)
Addison
Arlington, home to AT&T Stadium
Irving
Frisco
Grapevine
A lot to see in Dallas such as :
The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
The Dallas World Aquarium
Dallas Zoo
Six Flags Over Texas
Dallas Museum Of Art
Reunion Tower
Dealey Plaza
White Rock Lake
John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza
Klyde Warren Park
Nasher Sculpture Center
Uptown, Dallas
AT&T Stadium
Deep Ellum, Dallas
Arts District
Bishop Arts District, Dallas
Cedar Hill State Park
West End
George W. Bush Presidential Center
Southfork Ranch
Cedar Ridge Preserve
Joe Pool Lake
Pioneer Plaza
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Texas Discovery Gardens
Grapevine Vintage Railroad
Zero Gravity Thrill Amusement Park
Rory Meyers Children's Adventure Garden at the Dallas Arboretum
Trinity River Audubon Center
Arbor Hills Nature Preserve
Turtle Creek
Children's Aquarium at Fair Park
Dallas County Administration Building
Katy Trail
Thanks-Giving Square
White Rock Lake Park
Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark
SEA LIFE Grapevine Aquarium
LEGOLAND Discovery Center Dallas/Fort Worth
Dallas Heritage Village
Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament
Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
Dallas County Courthouse
Bahama Beach Waterpark
The Grassy Knoll
Main Street
Great Trinity Forest
Giant Eyeball
Dallas City Hall
( Dallas - USA ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Dallas . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Dallas - USA
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Texas State RR
Meet the Lone Ranger on this train ride through the piney woods of Texas.
Western American Rail Road Museum
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Traction Weekend at IRM 2017 - Part 1
IRM Traction Weekend 2017 - Part 1
On Saturday, July 1st, the Illinois Railway Museum presented a moving history of the Chicago elevated system. Over the course of the day, a century's worth of L cars were in operation, starting with the earliest electric equipment in the morning and finishing up in the afternoon with elevated cars that ran past the turn of the millenium.
Trains featured in this video include:
1. Commonwealth Edison #4 (Alco/GE, 1911)
2. Chicago Rapid Transit #1797 and #1268 (both American Car & Foundry, 1907)
3. Chicago Surface Lines #1374 (St. Louis Car Company, 1906)
4. Northwestern Elevated Railroad #24 (Pullman, 1898)
5. United States Army #8537 (GE, 1944)
6. Chicago Transit Authority #4290, #4412, and #4410 (all Cincinnati Car Company, 1922)
7. Chicago Transit Authority #41 and #22 (both St. Louis Car Company, 1959)
8. Chicago Transit Authority #30 (St. Louis Car Company, 1959)
9. Chicago Transit Authority #52 (St. Louis Car Company, 1948)
10. Chicago Transit Authority #2153-#2154 (Pullman-Standard, 1964)
The ATSF F7 and the entrance to the CSRM
TrainTopia
#TrainTopia is a 2,500 square foot G Scale layout on display at the Museum of American Railroad in the Frisco Discovery Center. For more information, please see:
Amtrak to Los Angeles from the Fullerton Railroad Museum
As part of out Christmas at Disneyland in 2017, we took the Surfliner to Los Angeles to see the Union Station and Old Town Los Angeles. We also visit the Plaza de Los Angeles also know as Olvera Street, the original heart of Los Angeles.
From their site:
Built in 1939, Los Angeles Union Station is the largest railroad passenger terminal in the Western United States and is widely regarded as “the last of the great train stations.” The station’s signature Mission Moderne style makes it one of L.A.’s architectural gems. The station was commissioned in 1933 as a joint venture between the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroads and was intended to consolidate the three local railroad terminals.
It was designed by the father-son architect team of John and Donald Parkinson with an innovative blend of Spanish Colonial, Mission Revival and Art Deco architecture now commonly referred to as Mission Moderne. The stunning facility was completed in 1939 for a reported $11 million and opened with a lavish, star-studded, three-day celebration attended by a half million Angelenos.
In the 76 years since its opening, Union Station has captured the spirt and soul of Los Angeles and has emerged as a vital portal to the promise of the California dream. The station was designed as an expression of the California lifestyle with a spacious ticket hall equipped with a 110-foot-long ticket counter crafted from American Black Walnut, a vast waiting room featuring towering 40-foot windows adored with brass, massive art deco chandeliers, inlaid marble floors and hand painted mission tiles, along with expansive shaded patios, towering palm trees and a clock tower looming 100 feet above the city.
Within just a few years of opening, Los Angeles Union Station transformed into a bustling 24-hour, seven-day-a-week operation with as many as 100 troop trains carrying tens of thousands of servicemen through the terminal every day during World War II.
By the 1950’s Americans favored cars and planes to the rails and there were fewer passengers through the station but it remained a vital part of LA’s transportation scene for decades.
In 1972, Union Station was designated as a Los Angeles Historic–Cultural Monument and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The 18th century plaza viejo (old plaza) AKA Olvera Street, predates the 19th century plaza nuevo. The old plaza of El Pueblo de Nuestra Sonora La Reina de Los Angeles (the town of our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) as decreed by Gov. Felipe de Neve in his Instruccion para La Fundaccion de Los Angeles
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Show-Me Katy: Memories of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, a new train book by Michael A. Landis
Enjoy this exciting new video trailer for our upcoming book, Show-Me Katy: Memories of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, which is now available for pre-order purchase!We've included several neat clips of M-K-T action in Clinton, Missouri on the Sedalia Subdivision. It was shot in 1987 by Ken Kaiser, and originally featured by Wayne Lammers in The Katy: Gateway to the Southwest. See our print preview and pre-order page at KatyMissouri.
Climb aboard the Katy with television journalist Michael Landis for an illustrated tour of one of the most scenic rail routes in the Midwest! This 175-page high-quality hardcover book focuses on the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) Railroad’s route between Parsons, Kansas; Sedalia, Missouri; and St. Louis, Missouri. Side trips are also taken on the branchlines to El Dorado Springs; Moberly; Columbia; and Paola, Kansas. Lastly, a special section provides a brief look at the Katy's other line to Missouri by way of Kansas City.
Starting in 1870 and ending with the MKT's demise in the 1980s, you'll discover how the tracks helped shape a growing region; the importance they played in serving communities big and small; and the misfortunes that ultimately led to much of it being abandoned.
With an emphasis on the final two decades in operation, you'll see Katy's diesel locomotives, in both the iconic red and green liveries, charging across the Show-Me State's diverse landscape. Enjoy nearly 300 action-packed photographs of freight trains winding through prairies and small towns; over lush hills; below towering bluffs; and across big rivers. Insightful 'Backtrack' articles provide a look at historic points of railroad interest along the way, including many depots, terminals, and other facilities. Interviews with former MKT employees, detailed maps, and informative graphics help tell the story of this often-forgotten corner of the Katy system.