Lil' Buff and I rode on this today
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Lil' Buff and I rode on this today
http://www.arcadeandatticarr.com/
Way far fun--I remember riding this when I was a kid and not much has changed. But, one thing you really don't realize is how much soot and ash a real steam engine churns out. Lil' Buff decided to ride in the open car right behind the engine and looked like a chimney sweep afterwards. Makes you wonder how anyone rode these things w/o getting totally trashed...maybe they did get totally trashed.
Way far fun--I remember riding this when I was a kid and not much has changed. But, one thing you really don't realize is how much soot and ash a real steam engine churns out. Lil' Buff decided to ride in the open car right behind the engine and looked like a chimney sweep afterwards. Makes you wonder how anyone rode these things w/o getting totally trashed...maybe they did get totally trashed.
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Re: Lil' Buff and I rode on this today
well, the web site did mention six years of restoration so that the steam engine is again functional. It becomes harder and harder as the engines get older, and there are fewer "experts" still with us who worked on them while they were still main line locomotives.Buffacuse wrote:http://www.arcadeandatticarr.com/
Way far fun--I remember riding this when I was a kid and not much has changed. But, one thing you really don't realize is how much soot and ash a real steam engine churns out. Lil' Buff decided to ride in the open car right behind the engine and looked like a chimney sweep afterwards. Makes you wonder how anyone rode these things w/o getting totally trashed...maybe they did get totally trashed.
The soot from the soft coal also makes me note that the Lackawanna Railroad invented the name and character Phoebe Snow to emphasize the smaller amount of soot from their hard coal, anthracite
Said Phoebe Snow about to go
Upon a trip to Buffalo
"My gown stays white for day and night
Upon the route of anthracite
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Oh, man, don't get me started -- Colorado has the Narrow Gauge Capital of the World within its borders, plus the Antonito-Chama rail line which crosses the CO-NM border a couple times in its excursion, plus other short lines and exhibits all over the state, including the Forney Railroad Museum in Denver, which I almost got to visit this weekend. I wish everybody could get a sense of how important railroads were in the history of the country.
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Like this one?SportsFan68 wrote:Oh, man, don't get me started -- Colorado has the Narrow Gauge Capital of the World within its borders, plus the Antonito-Chama rail line which crosses the CO-NM border a couple times in its excursion, plus other short lines and exhibits all over the state, including the Forney Railroad Museum in Denver, which I almost got to visit this weekend. I wish everybody could get a sense of how important railroads were in the history of the country.

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Exactly!Bob Juch wrote:Like this one?
Beautiful pic, Bob.
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Cool. I would love to see the countryside there, that way.
We have a similar thing about 150 miles from here; The Texas State Railroad. It runs through the Big Thicket about 90 minutes each way. The view doesn't change much so after the first leg you're ready to get off. We've taken the kids a couple of times. They enjoyd it, about the first 50 minutes.
I love historical stuff.

We have a similar thing about 150 miles from here; The Texas State Railroad. It runs through the Big Thicket about 90 minutes each way. The view doesn't change much so after the first leg you're ready to get off. We've taken the kids a couple of times. They enjoyd it, about the first 50 minutes.
I love historical stuff.

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Thanks! I took it two years ago on my BAM-money trip.SportsFan68 wrote:Exactly!Bob Juch wrote:Like this one?
Beautiful pic, Bob.
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