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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jul 28, 2007
Description:
Oh, man, this guy has got his own train set in his back yard! Now if he only had a locomotive….
Date Taken:
Jul 28, 2007
Place Taken:
Southern IL
Owner:
Dan Nickens
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281, Oshkosh 2007
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Dennis Scearce - Jul 28,2007
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Don't give Lima any ideas...
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Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Jul 29,2007
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We had our own locomotive once. It was fun taking our train on special trips but she was over 60 ft long, weighed 113 tons (and not the metric kind) and it took four of us about four hours to wash her with long brooms, buckets and about half an acre of chamois.<br /><br />At 85 mph she was about as scary, bumpy and noisy as a Searey but when you opened the firedoor it was a damned sight hotter!
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Dan Nickens - Jul 29,2007
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No way, CVJ! That is too cool (or maybe way hot!). Now that is a favorite childhood fantasy. Have you got any pictures you can share?
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Dan Nickens - Jul 29,2007
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Okay, I've waited all morning to hear more. If you don't have any pictures, Chris, just tell me more about it. What kind was it? Must have been steam, eh? Otherwise you had a pretty crude cabin heater! Where did you take it? Did you get to blow the whistle?
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Rick Oreair - Jul 29,2007
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I want to know if you got to wear 'The Hat'?
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Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Jul 29,2007
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Yes, I got to wear the hat, it was greasy and had coal dust all over!<br /><br />Yes, I got to blow the whistle, and often.<br /><br />You can see the story on the Internet. It is called 'The flying Scotsman.' (The locomotive, there was also a train of the same name.) My stepfather was Alan Pegler.
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Eric Batterman - Jul 29,2007
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Dan Nickens - Jul 29,2007
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There is also quite an article in an old Road & Track magazine from April 1966. I was speechless after reading it. All I can say is 'WOW! What a ride!'
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Road Test of Gresley Locomotive
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Don Maxwell - Aug 01,2007
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Chris, one of my best memories of steam locomotives is of boarding a train one dark night in central China, about 25 years ago, when our kids were little and impressionable. A tiny woman conductor led us out of the waiting room to the tracks. But the crossing was blocked by another locomotive. It stood there, massive, as high as we could see, grumbling and hissing white steam into the black night air. The conductor's head only came up to the axles of its driving wheels. She marched to the cab, stopped, feet apart, and held up the kerosene lantern as high as she could reach and shouted to the engine driver--something in the Shaanxi dialect that I couldn't catch, but as shrill and imperious as any train whistle. The driver replied with WHOO WHHOOOOOH on the cord and cracked the throttle just enough to roll the train backward thirty feet. And then the tiny conductor--as formidable as any steam engine ever built--led us across the track in front of it. The kids were so overwhelmed, they could hardly speak--their parents, too.<br /><br />You might find this old thing amusing: <a href="http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/PomSound/pomsound.html">http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/PomSound/pomsoun<br>d.html</a>
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Kenneth Leonard - Aug 01,2007
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Don - I got about 1/2 way through your writing and started thinking of the 'The_wheels_go_round_on_the_railroad_track_and if you gooooo, you caaaan't come baaack...' (Smothers brothers? Kingston Trio?) then I saw you included that too. My dad used to play that song for us as kids. Good memories. By the way, my mother was raised in China and told us stories about the railroads there. She took my Dad there about 25 years ago too - with an elderhostle.
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Kenneth Leonard - Aug 01,2007
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New Jersey still has a steam train that runs the Morristown - Erie line on holidays. At Christmas, Sanda meets the train and hands out goodies. My kids really enjoyed that and I liked the old steamer. The conductor would tell us to lift our feet off the floor when we went over bridges to make the train lighter so the bridges could hold us.
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Bruce Bennett - Aug 02,2007
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Don, the song sounds like one of those 'old' Country Western type groups from Nashville, and the Opry. I don't believe it's the Smother's Brother's or The Kingston Trio. Judy
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