7 thoughts on “Old Train Thursday

  1. There is just something about that black belching smoke that gives me a hankerun for the old days.

    • Pop, A Nod to the Gods and Feral Irishman have the goods and copyright on displaying wimmins, wild or wallflower in the interwebs. We just make fun of them and worship them here…

  2. Those enormous wooden bridges, crazy high over valleys, just blow me away. Lots of skills there. Mad skills. I bet those skills are all gone today.

  3. Those tall bridges had lofts for hobos.

    In that photograph of the derailing at Lufkin, there are wimmen and children standing on the cars. Today the ‘authorities’ would be called and the parents put in jail.

  4. Huh that pic of Northampton MA… that’s where I was born back in the day at Emily Dickenson Hospital… DeadDad was getting his Doctorate at UMass Amherst… That kicked the ole memory banks… not that I remember as MomUnit and DeadDad moved from there when I was like 3, but still, pretty cool.

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