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VE3WBZ > TRAINS 23.02.11 08:15l 73 Lines 2814 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Hello again Tony VK3API
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To : TRAINS@WW
TO: TRAINS @WW
FR: VE3WBZ
DT: Wednesday,February 23rd.,2011 @0018hrs EST
Hi Tony and others ... I shall now make it short so Warren's BBS
doesn't time out...hahahahaha :)
<< Quoting VK3API to TRAINS @WW >>
>> Interesting. World Famous...now there is a interesting thought
>> used in many countries, to describe what they "think" might be
>> "World Famous" , but in reality... is what? Really. Case in point
>> is a CD I go from South America, where this entertainer was supposed
>> to be "World Famous" ...but "BOING" ! He wasn't ...not to me
>> and others in North America. Only in their mind's eye.
Yepper ....thats what I posted above...
> Yes I have noticed this "world famous" bit is open to interpretation.
It is like what professional sports is in North America. They win
a league race for that year...and they proclaim themselves
"World Champions" ...
> Another strange part of our "Puffing Billy" is that at least one of the
> engines is actually a resurrected engine from a spur line known as the
> Whyalla Gold Fields Railway.
I went tonight to the "Puffing Billy Railways" and noted while they
have a great fleet of "steam puffers" they also have some in shop
and stored for future restoration, which is nice. I also like the
layout. nice fleet too of electric and diesel. saw the note
about the name tag theft...and that is sad. I wonder where that
will turn up...if at all?
> The Whyalla railway had the dubious distinction of being built with
> enormous effort through a range of hills to service a gold mining town
> called obviously enough Whyalla. It took many years of lobbying to get a
> railroad to the town and just as it was finished the gold ran out and so
> the only real function the railway served was to cart away the town piece
> by piece and to then close.
OOhhh thats sounds like a few places here...and recent too. One
place comes to mind.
> Regards Tony VK3API
>
>
> [End of Message #85374 from VK3API]
Getting too late for me Tony. I wish I was a train buff, but
well I grew out of the electric model train days...as well seeing
some of them in the last days of their service ... Kinda funny
now to see them restored in museums. During the war...so many
of them were painted as to not present a target to enemy flights.
I also have fond memorys of present when I was in Sao Paulo BRASIL
to enter a railway station built way back in the 1800s...it was
in really good condition and still used, and at that time they
were going to restore the station.
They also have many derlick engines out in some remote places.
Some sitting as they were left in the late 1800s.
"Yawn" better get going... night...
73 Pete VE3WBZ
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