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KB2VXA > TRAINS 24.02.11 01:02l 43 Lines 1906 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: VE3WBZ > Wrap it up, I'll take it.
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Hi Pete and all,
I stole that title from The Fabulous Thunderbirds, rather fits tying the
ribbons on Billy. (;->) Eh, I know it's the name of the railway but I
could have sworn it's also the name of the green engine, now my curiosity
is really going. Yup, the Beamish Museum is an outdoor recreation of a
number of historical things from a farm to a colliery to this and that
with a narrow gauge railway with the Puffing Billy replica running around
the perimiter. Each "station" is a different exhibit so it saves a lot of
walking around so visitors may concentrate on what they came to see. Now
if the original is in the British Science Museum in London it must be
like the Smithsonian in Washington which BTW has more squirreled away in
warehouses than on display.
Covington, the very name makes me cringe it being perhaps the hardest
decision Churchill ever had to make. Anyway, York is the only National
Railway Museum I heard of, sure there are other museums and several
private railways but only one York?
The whole area offshore has been explored and no trace of a ship ever
found, only the two locos. Consider this, the USATC shipped a gazillion
Alco engines to Britain during WW2 and more were lashed to the decks than
secured in the holds. Even the Flying Scotsman was shipped to Australia
that way but I digress. It's conceivable that and here's the best guess
considering the records that they were shipped from Boston to Baltimore
on deck but washed overboard in a storm off Point Pleasant, NJ. We
suppose the ship continued on to Baltimore minus the locos but with the
rest of the cargo intact.
Lastly, I don't know of a museum in Scotland but the Welsh Highland
Railway comes to mind... hmmm.
73 de Warren
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