I guess I can claim some heredity for my interest in locomotives and trains. Uncle on my Mother's side was freight agent at Williams, AZ and his wife, my aunt was a railroad nurse for Santa Fe. On the other side my Dad's brother worked on the "Big Boys" on the Nevada side of the mountain. He was sent to Europe near the end of W.W. II to help rebuild the rolling equipment that had been damaged and worn out during the fighting. We tried to hook up over there (I was a combat infantry man in the 301st Infantry) but, never were at the same place at the same time. But after the war was over and my uncle had retired I did the chance to take him out to the Los Angeles Live Steamer tracks and he got to ride behind a "real steam engine" one more time in his life. I still have some home movies of him riding behind an engine on the 1-1/2 inch scale track with a grin plastered on his face. John **************Big savings on Dell XPS Laptops and Desktops! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220433404x1201394533/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doubl eclick.net%2Fclk%3B214133109%3B36002181%3Bk) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://postfix.45mm.com/pipermail/sslivesteam/attachments/20090422/5b82e4cf/attachment.html _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
