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KB2VXA > TRAINS 19.02.11 15:32l 36 Lines 1509 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Hi Pete and all,
Going back over those early boilers and such makes me wonder just what
qualifies as a locomotive. Hmmm, coal smoke, hot oil and steam are gone
but not forgotten even if here in the East a coal strike in 1957 put an
earlier end to it than modernization elsewhere.
A steam locomotive in Welsh coal mines? Possible, but I think you're
confusing them, smaller "fireless cookers" were used underground and
around hazardous atmospheres. Basic pressure vessels with drivers they
were limited but without fires at least they didn't cause explosions.
You mentioned Puffing Billy, he's Australian and hauls tourists around
Queensland unless I'm mistaken. Don't look now but he's not the original,
that one works the colliery at Beemish Museum UK and is much older. Funny
how when you have a hobby like trains you learn a new bit of history
nearly every day.
Now these days I live but one block from the New Jersey Transit tracks
and hear them go by all day and well into the night. Used to be the sound
of a train had me running to see what it was but that was years ago and
the Pennsylvania RR with mixed passenger and freight and all sorts of
locomotives. Now they're all Alstom double deck coaches and P42AC
locomotives, on a commuter line if you've seen one you've seen them all.
(;->)
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 08:52 on 2011-Feb-19 GMT
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