13 thoughts on “Old Train Thursday, ghost edition. Original disappeared.”
Image #2: Oh that looks risky!
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How did the original post disappear? Did you hit the delete button in error, Cederq?
I have no idea, maybe Phil didn’t like a particular Choo-choo…. I post and schedule about a week ahead and it was sitting in queue waiting to post on the specified day and time. And when I got up and after pouring a cup of joe and sitting down to my warmed up ‘puter and checked the blog it wasn’t there, nor in queue as sometimes when I set the time I forget to set it to AM and it defaults to a PM time, no joy, it just disappeared. I always set the post between 3 and 4 AM Pacific Time for the East Coast boys to enjoy with their coffee.
Sux when that happens. I’ve not had that experience, but I’ve made my own posts vanish in mid-composing, and not sure how/why since there’s a auto-save-as-you-go. Ahhh, sweet technology, ones and zeros.
#2 has track wheels on it. We had abandoned tracks going through town years ago. A Ford Falcon with 20# of air in the tires rode the tracks well. Only had to steer at the grade crossings. Fun stuff.
Boy, that little guy that had the boiler explosion looked like hell. Musta been fairly energetic. Safety popoff valve failure? Dynamite in the firebox?
Ouch.
I wondered if the operating engineer survived. Bet he didn’t.
I also wondered, and agree.
It was meant to be. Two of the black belching smokers in the set and that train on the steamboat dock, never seen anything like that before so will research it. Thanks Ghost.
Wow, Martha’s Vineyard old colony RR. Wonder how they got it on the island. Visited Cape Cod and both islands several years ago, really cool whaling history and seeing where John Belushi was originally buried. The school bus tour guide said people would leave six cans of beer at his marker along the MV road at the turn in to his house. Said they had to remove it because people keep chipping chunks from the marker. Yes that yank said six cans of beer, I laughed.
Anybody have any idea why a six-pointed star is painted on the sulphuric acid tanker? If that is a US War Department tanker for munitions manufacturing, surely it would be the standard wartime five-point star identifier. Maybe a graffiti artist was at work?
Maybe because it could be an Israeli Sulfuric Acid Tanker? Just spit balling here but the chassis is not an American built chassis as much as I know about tanker when I had to fill from them with CO2 and Argon. The car in front has an European look to it.
Image #2: Oh that looks risky!
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How did the original post disappear? Did you hit the delete button in error, Cederq?
I have no idea, maybe Phil didn’t like a particular Choo-choo…. I post and schedule about a week ahead and it was sitting in queue waiting to post on the specified day and time. And when I got up and after pouring a cup of joe and sitting down to my warmed up ‘puter and checked the blog it wasn’t there, nor in queue as sometimes when I set the time I forget to set it to AM and it defaults to a PM time, no joy, it just disappeared. I always set the post between 3 and 4 AM Pacific Time for the East Coast boys to enjoy with their coffee.
Sux when that happens. I’ve not had that experience, but I’ve made my own posts vanish in mid-composing, and not sure how/why since there’s a auto-save-as-you-go. Ahhh, sweet technology, ones and zeros.
#2 has track wheels on it. We had abandoned tracks going through town years ago. A Ford Falcon with 20# of air in the tires rode the tracks well. Only had to steer at the grade crossings. Fun stuff.
Boy, that little guy that had the boiler explosion looked like hell. Musta been fairly energetic. Safety popoff valve failure? Dynamite in the firebox?
Ouch.
I wondered if the operating engineer survived. Bet he didn’t.
I also wondered, and agree.
It was meant to be. Two of the black belching smokers in the set and that train on the steamboat dock, never seen anything like that before so will research it. Thanks Ghost.
Wow, Martha’s Vineyard old colony RR. Wonder how they got it on the island. Visited Cape Cod and both islands several years ago, really cool whaling history and seeing where John Belushi was originally buried. The school bus tour guide said people would leave six cans of beer at his marker along the MV road at the turn in to his house. Said they had to remove it because people keep chipping chunks from the marker. Yes that yank said six cans of beer, I laughed.
Anybody have any idea why a six-pointed star is painted on the sulphuric acid tanker? If that is a US War Department tanker for munitions manufacturing, surely it would be the standard wartime five-point star identifier. Maybe a graffiti artist was at work?
Maybe because it could be an Israeli Sulfuric Acid Tanker? Just spit balling here but the chassis is not an American built chassis as much as I know about tanker when I had to fill from them with CO2 and Argon. The car in front has an European look to it.
It’s Kosher Sulfuric Acid. 🙂 🙂
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!