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It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.
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Norfolk and Western Class J #611, National Mechanical Engineering Historic Landmark
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O. Winston Link, "Maude Bows to the Iron Horse," N&W Virginia Creeper, 1950s
N&W ran steam locomotives in regular service until 1960, the last US Class I railroad to do so.
"The steam locomotive teaches us that the railway age was a totally viable and a civilised alternative to the hideous consequences of basing national economies on road transportation." -- Colin GarrattLast edited by UCanoe_2; 05-15-2023, 08:28 AM."George Washington as a boy
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Sacramento Railway Museum. Always liked this engine.Comment
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A local piece of line,by the New Cut between Reedham and Haddiscoe.The cut was opened in 1833 and shouldn't be confused with the New Cut at Thorpe which also runs next to a rail line,but is a bit newer as it opened in 1844.
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A viaduct near Chez Moi.
It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.
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I used to have a photo of my maternal grandparents in front of an E&ER train taken on the day my grandfather was given the chance to drive one of the locos. Talk about a busman's holiday - his day job was engine driver at Lever Bros.
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That made me think of what Burton on Trent must have been like in its hay days
Above: 1901 built Neilson Reid 0-4-0ST No. 9 leads a single four-wheel coach through the maze of railway lines on the Bass Brewery system in Burton in 1959. Gordon Edgar Collection.
https://www.keymodelworld.com/articl...llery-linesThe lines ran through the town from the breweries to the main line depots.
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4 weeks to go and we'll be spending some time near this little railway:
A few weeks later we'll be in Carnforth, but I see that the Steamtown area is no longer open to the public. Oh well, we weren't actually going there to look at the trains anyway.'When I leave I don't know what I'm hoping to find. When I leave I don't know what I'm leaving behind...'Comment
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Landon Lumber Co. in Madison, Ct. had the last independent rail siding in Connecticut as far as I know. The lumber used yto come in sometime in the wee hours of the night, switch off to the siding, and then continue on up/down the line between Canada and Florida and points west.
Watching the yard crew unloading those flatbeds of lumber was something. They had their own caboose to tug the cars around. (Yes, some cabooses had small engines). Finally AMTRAK shut that siding down, and the lumber started coming in on trucks.
But in the 70s, even early 80s you'd see flatbeds with GIANT timbers. Redwood beams and Spruce or D-Fir laminations that dwarfed anything else in not only their yard, but any yard up or down the line.
36"X 60"X 60' Redwood or Fir for custom builds that couldn't go over the roads except for short hauls (100+-? miles) with all sorts of escorts. Lots of people hopped the rails at that siding from what I heard.Comment
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A NYC subway pulls into Queens Plaza. Silvercup Studios can be seen. There was shot The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Devil Wears Prada, Highlander and more.
Originally the Silvercup bread factory until sometime in the 1980s, this is right in my grandparents neighborhood. We used to love the smell of baking bread when we visited.
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Technically no it's not. That's the Jacobite train which runs from Fort William to Mallaig, April to October. Normally pulled by a black 5 London Midland and Scottish locomotive. It is however shown on The Glen Finnan viaduct as in the film.
In Harry Potter they much maligned a Great Western Locomotive, which should be in middle chrome green, by painting it red and fitting an American style headlamp. The locomotive in question was GWR 4900 class, number 5972, Olton Hall.
She should look like.
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