Nice story. I grew up in a couple places heavily shaped by rail. The first being the Okanagan Valley (I hiked Myra Canyon and other parts of the Kettle Valley Railway as a Boy Scout as well as with my father) and Sudbury, ON, which was a railroad town long before the nickel (My mother's back yard abuts on the CPR transcontinental mainline).
-Adam Bob Blakely 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
