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KB2VXA > TRAINS 23.02.11 17:27l 43 Lines 1887 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Hi Pete and all,
I didn't reply to Tony's remarks about the Puffing Billy Railway but I'm
with you "T", those sparks light up Memory Lane.
Oh, so that ring around the CN Tower was during construction. My guess
the smoke came from the work and wind conditions did the rest. Standing
out like that it probably creates interesting drafts and swirls only now
you can't see them without the smoke.
Eh, just for the heck of it I Googled "puffing billy" and came up with
exactly what you mentioned, not so common slang so it looks like that
application is broadening to steam engines in general. Now I wonder why
there is no Billy on the island of Sodor? (Think a moment, you'll get it.)
Well yeah, the Luftwaffe bombed the heck out of the UK during the war and
the Forth Bridge was a prime target. I have a few old photos in the
archives, the Brits sure had some tidying up to do at York! Talk about a
complete turnaround, the scrap yard turned into the National Railway
Museum which houses one of the finest collections in the world, many
exhibits either working or servicable.
Oh no, those locos offshore will stay right where they are in nature's
own preservation. They're so crusted over with marine life holding them
together removing it would probably prove disaterous and even so they
defy classification. They're quite unique in several ways so they cannot
be specifically identified and shipping records of the day leave a bit to
be desired so all we have to go on are educated guesses. Now here's the
real mystery, where is the ship? Heh, they're just sitting there in their
watery rail yard like they were once working and now frozen in time, not
a scrap of anything else down there.
73 de Warren
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