and he notes - The B&ML RR was indeed a real railroad. Here is a couple of links to it's history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad http://cprr.org/Museum/BMLRR/index.html Raleigh in Chilly Maine... > > ><http://calslivesteam.org/whistle_pdf/cals2009/cals200901e.pdf>http://calslivesteam.org/whistle_pdf/cals2009/cals200901e.pdf > >http://www.wcrr.org/ > ><http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06S9bxT_u6M>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06S9bxT_u6M > >I think many of you know by now, that Linda and >I just back home from our annual trip to Acadia National Park. > >One of our goals was to do some bike riding in >Machais, Maine, but however, we did not since it was a bit rainy. > >We did ride that part of the Sunrise trail, last >year, as it is 82 miles long. We came across a >old blueberry warehouse with two permanent >refrigerator train cars still attached. > >We did ride the trail in Ellsworth, just >wonderful, as we did ride on the Downeast Scenic >RR and the Belfast and Moosehead Lake RR, both >made up names. We rode in the copula of the >caboose with working pot belly store on the Belfast ride. > >However, on the way up on US 1, we saw this >"garden" RR and did stop on the way back to >Acadia to get pictures, as we met George Brace, >the son of the man who made the miniature RR. > >The first website is a newsletter about the >passing of his Dad, who was a math professor at >U of MD and made the live steam RR that runs in Baltimore. > >the second website is about the RR. > >The third is a video of the RR, as the building >on the RR houses his pet sheep. The bench says Beltsville for Beltsville MD. > >The track is all hand made, as George told us >once a delivery truck ran over it!!! > >George wants me to email him about American >Flyer, as he is not familiar with Lionel and AF, >as he had real trains as a kid. > >Mike Marmer > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
