User:TheTrainEnthusiast/Sandbox

This is just a sandbox. The stuff in here will never be posted on the main encyclopedia.

Railroad stuff I've done
I have lived in many of Nevada's towns, including Currie, Ely, the Cobre area, and Pahrump. Yes I do know that Pahrump was not located along the Nevada Northern, it's just where I decided to retire

Railroad tales
One day, I was called to repair a train that had broken down just outside of Currie. I hopped into my truck and drove to the spot where the train had broken down (there were no roads, by the way; I had to drive on the terrain, which in itself was fun). Once I got there I climbed out of my truck and asked what the problem was. They said that they did not know what the problem was, all they knew was the train was acting funny. I inspected the boiler and quickly found out that several of the rivets were missing. I went to my truck to grab my toolbox, but I realized my toolbox was back at my house in Ely, almost an hour and a half away. I had to run back home, grab my toolbox, and when I opened my toolbox, I saw that I didn't have the right sized rivets for the locomotive. So then I had to purchase the right sized rivets and head an hour and a half south to the train. Once I arrived, I apologized for the delay, and I got to work fixing up the locomotive. Once I had finished, I started my truck and began to drive to Currie, but about five minutes after I had started my vehicle, it stopped. I checked the gas gauge; it was on empty. So, I had to push my truck about four miles to Currie, where I filled up and stayed the night at the depot. The next day, I drove to Ely, and just as I was arriving in town, my back left tire went flat. That was back in 1978.

Places I've been
From the year of my birth, which was 1950, to 1967, I had never been out of the state of Nevada. However, we took a trip to California in 1967, and it was a very nice trip. Below is a table showing where I've been, what year I went there, and what I did: