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VE3WBZ > TRAINS 23.02.11 08:15l 78 Lines 2903 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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To : TRAINS@WW
TO: TRAINS @WW
FR: VE3WBZ
DT: Tuesday, February 22rd.,2011 @2348hrs
Hello Warren and ...."all".
If you quit wandering about we might not go on so long, but then
that day...in the morning repeated itself, and from a distance it
was a joke on Toronto...like someone had thrown a "ringer" around
the CN Tower. I still have film, I took when they were building
it. As for GO Transit, that is a fleet of rail and buses...
yes green.
<< Quoting KB2VXA to TRAINS @WW >>
> Nah, Puffing Billy bears no resemblance to any locomotive or
> train name other than those at Beemish and Queensland so unless
> she somehow heard of the one that worked the colliery (Beemish)
> the name was purely her own.
Thee original "Puffing Billy" is in the Science Museum in London.
I heard from her that name in late 1940s , and well we left UK
in 1953 ... So I believe at that time, there was no Beamish
heritage site. Might want to research that for yourself, as I
believe she , like many folk referred to many steam trains as
"puffing Billies" ....the same as an adjective used to describe
people finishing a run or extreme exercise.... sweating and
puffing like a Billy or whatever.
It was rather nice seeing someone off at the station and
listening to it start up... that whistle and the puffing
etc ... all gone now...just a memory.
The other one in Australia, is BTW called the "Puffing Billy Railway".
Another collection of more modern engines. Their dates are the
proof of the pudding there.
> nick for steamer is "pufferbelly" so that could have been an
> inspiration but I'm only guessing.
"puffers" I believe but you might want to check with someone in UK
to see what they did call the flatbottomed supply craft that
serviced the coast. They were small ...well built.
> Eh, that's the Forth Bridge built by EWS Railway over the
> Firth of Forth, not the fourth, third or fifth unless you're
> thinking of a fifth of Scotch and in that case we can have a wee dram.
> (;->)
Actually they now have two bridges over the Firth of Forth ...
they now have a nice motorway span, beside the Railway bridge.
we would take the ferry across with the car, but I can remember
the trips over the Railway bridge, in the train. Clickie clack.
The folks in UK, were intereting, and it also comes here, as
with the engines....they always named the family car.
I still carry on that tradition and Maria loves it.
Interesting about that coal... that will keep you busy :)
The two engines from the 1800s are interesting, but then the
salt water... well too bad. Might not be worth trying to get
at them.
I am so glad I have pictures of my youth in scotland, and that
ferry trip across with the bridge in the background. They
really bombed it during the war..or tried.
Kinda late... see you. Just looking into John Fitch's history.
73 Pete VE3WBZ
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