Nice story Bob. Before 1st grade, our apartment was on a street ending 1 1/2 blocks south in a Northwestern roundhouse near in to downtown Chicago. I used to beg to go down to the roundhouse and watch the Steam Engines. These are some of my earliest memories. Regards, Bob S.
On 9/10/07, Bob Blakely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I grew up in Rutland. It was the second largest city in Vermont with 16,000 > souls. The road from my rural home to town took us over an arched > cement/steel bridge that spanned a narrower part of the Rutland yard. This > was the one of , if not the largest yard in New England at the time. It was > one of . My dad (now deceased) took me many times to a spot on the bridge > where we could sit and watch the goats make trains and switching of engines > at the round house. We saw trains come from the west & south with produce > and such for New England and trains being built to carry apples, marble, > granite and timber back. Twice he took me to a narrow, wooded glen where the > train from Barrie, laden with granite, would wind around following These > were the days of steam, mind you. They were magical dragons belching smoke > and steam and making a wonderful racket. > > http://users.rcn.com/jimdu4/Shaughnessy.htm > > The yard and the trains are gone now. A shopping mall has replaced the yard > and all the track has been torn up. > > I miss my dad. > > Regards, > Bob... > -------------------------------------------------------- > "Life isn't like a box of chocolates . . > it's more like a jar of jalapenos. > What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow." > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rebekah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >I think it looks like great fun. I love trains! > > > > rg2 > > > > On 9/10/07, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As I said,.poorly, it's a tourist oriented website and attraction. Why > >> don't you drop them an e-mail with suggestions? > >> > >> John Sessoms wrote: > >> > I was talking about the web site itself not being friendly to rail > >> > enthusiasts. Yeah it's ok for the tourists, but it doesn't tell me what > >> > I want to know. > >> > > >> > Most of the steam railroad web-pages have a link for the real old-timer > >> > steam buffs that takes you to a listing of the equipment the railroad > >> > is > >> > operating, i.e. what kind of steam engines do they have and how many > >> > are > >> > operating ... > >> > > >> > Should I travel a thousand miles to get there if they don't have the > >> > equipment I'm interested in? What if they don't have anything that's > >> > not > >> > in the local transportation museum, which is about 950 miles closer? > >> > > >> > And without a link on the web site to let me see what equipment they > >> > have, how am I going to know if they do have something I'm interested > >> > in? > >> > > >> > From: > >> > "P. J. Alling" > >> > > >> >> No, it's a tourist attraction site. It's not that they discourage > >> >> visitors, but they're old fashioned, no digital computers in the age > >> >> of steam, (but I bet they'd love to have a Babbage Difference Engine > >> >> to display). > >> >> > >> >> John Sessoms wrote: > >> >> From: > >> >> "P. J. Alling" > >> >> > >> >> > >> >>> The Valley Railroad, in Essex Connecticut. It's a working Steam > >> >>> Railway museum. They run a couple of Restored Steam Loco's and have a > >> >>> couple of Modern Chinese Steam Loco's, (one of which they run on the > >> >>> line as well, the other on display), (to the untrained eye, with most > >> >>> of the extra metal work removed they both look like a standard > >> >>> American type. This engine is sitting a the end of a line of cars all > >> >>> awaiting restoration, and as you can see, occasionally cannibalized > >> >>> for parts. > >> >>> > >> >>> http://www.essexsteamtrain.com/index.html > >> >>> > >> >> Not a real rail enthusiast site though, because they don't appear to > >> >> have any link to the equipment itself. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
