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    steam-train-glenfinnan-viaduct-is-a-railway-viaduct-on-the-west-highland-line-in-glenfinnan-inve.jpg
    Last edited by Paul Pless; 05-14-2023, 10:05 AM.
    Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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    Frank Betchard Lumber Company Steam Locomotive Number 3 at Roy, Washington in 1941.

    I hung out at that derelict mill when I was in first and second grade. I've been on that old locomotive hundreds of times.

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      Mt. Washington Cog Railway

      Notice the boiler - built to be level on the slope.

      "Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world." - Bono

      "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." - Will Rogers

      "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." - Groucho Marx

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        Oregon Coast Scenic RR crossing Minehaha St, Twin Rocks, from the drone I named “Quimby”.

        “Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is moving" - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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          Big Boy, up close and personal

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            Originally posted by Paul Pless
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            think i recognize that from a movie, can't remember the title...book by a trans exclusionary radical feminist?

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              Originally posted by L.W. Baxter
              think i recognize that from a movie, can't remember the title...book by a trans exclusionary radical feminist?
              Surely not H.P. and the Prisoner of Azkaban? And is J.K.R. the maligned damsel of which you speak?

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                yes, that is the hogwarts express. and if you are unaware of the controversy surrounding rowling's words on transgender women, you are to be congratulated for not monitoring yahoo.

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                  Originally posted by Todd Bradshaw
                  Big Boy, up close and personal

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                  Saw Big Boy in Wyoming a few years ago. One big locomotive!
                  What's not on a boat costs nothing, weighs nothing, and can't break

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                    Originally posted by L.W. Baxter
                    yes, that is the hogwarts express. and if you are unaware of the controversy surrounding rowling's words on transgender women, you are to be congratulated for not monitoring yahoo.
                    i didnt know that

                    havent seen the movies nor read the books
                    Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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                      Originally posted by L.W. Baxter
                      yes, that is the hogwarts express. and if you are unaware of the controversy surrounding rowling's words on transgender women, you are to be congratulated for not monitoring yahoo.
                      Yes, I am vaguely aware of her position. I might just give her a deep dive to expand my knowledge.

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                        Originally posted by Paul Pless
                        i didnt know that
                        Google image search. Ba da bing.

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                          CN and former DMIR locos pulling an ore train on a cold morning in northern Wisconsin.

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                          one of mine

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                            Knysna choo-choo, sadly doesn't run anymore. Photo from around 2005.

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                              My ex and I were aboard from Coffs Harbour to Glenreagh, on the paired Flying Scotsman and the 3801

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