remeber the old steam trains,fondly ok

Subject: RE: remeber the old steam trains,fondly ok
From: GUEST,Paul Burke
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 03:51 AM

Steam: the Isle of Man about 1960. Preserved as a mere shadow today, but still worth seeing:
http://www.locoperformance.co.uk/images20ch/279iom2004.jpg

And not only steam: the electrics are worth seeing too:

Interurbans anyone?

Subject: RE: remeber the old steam trains,fondly ok
From: Fidjit
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 02:15 AM

Steam trains. Yes. We were evaquated to Chelmsford from London Non-stop on a train with no corridor. We had all the food in our carraige, so the other kids got none. Got some soot in my eye though. I rather like Dave Gaulder's, "Requiem" for memories of the trains.

Subject: Lyr Add: LAST OF THE STEAM POWERED TRAINS
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 01:21 AM

As it's Ray Davies's birthday today I thought I'd post this:

Like the last of the good ol' puffer trains,
I'm the last of the blood and sweat brigade,
And I don't know where I'm going, or why I came.
I'm the last of the good old fashioned steam-powered trains.

I'm the last of the good old renegades.
All my friends are all middle class and grey,
But I live in a museum, so I'm okay.
I'm the last of the good old fashioned steam-powered trains.

Like the last of the good ol' choo-choo trains,
Huff and puff 'till I blow this world away,
And I'm gonna keep on rollin' till my dying day.
I'm the last of the good old fashioned steam-powered trains.

Like the last of the good ol' puffer trains,
I'm the last of the soot and scum brigade,
And all this peaceful living is drivin' me insane.
I'm the last of the good old fashioned steam-powered trains.
I'm the last of the good old fashioned steam-powered trains

Chords can be found here

Subject: RE: remeber the old steam trains,fondly ok
From: GUEST,Hen Harrier
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 09:50 PM

The old Leighton Buzzard - Dunstable line with its old London & North Western Railway "Duck 8's" (0-8-0) loco's slogging up the 1/80 incline to Leighton Buzzard Station with 600 tons of chalk from Totternhoe Quarries. They had a very distinctive wheezing, asthmatic, groaning sound from their cylinders which gave them great character (although I understand from a fitter who used to maintain them that they were absolute pigs to work on, with access to the inside cylinders being very difficult!)

Subject: RE: remeber the old steam trains,fondly ok
From: rich-joy
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 09:48 PM

I am SO glad that I was born long enough ago (only 1951!) that I can remember travelling on steam trains, on the suburban track opposite my home (West Aussie) - and there's nothing quite like that smell either (what chemical combination caused that?) of being on a bridge when the engine puffed under!!!
OK, so everything in the carriages was covered in a dusty grit - including yer clothes and face - but only ya Mother cared about that!!!


Cheers! R-J

Subject: RE: remeber the old steam trains,fondly ok
From: Troll
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 07:36 PM

East Tenessee, Western North Carolina Rail Road.

AKA. Eat Trash Wear No Clothes and Run Rabbits.

troll

Subject: RE: remeber the old steam trains,fondly ok
From: Leadfingers
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 07:29 PM

Oh How Well I remember the cry "Theres a Double on the Main" when we were filling in our Ian Allen books just down the line from Small Heath Station , back of the Labour Exchange , And the hope that it just MIGHT be a 'King' !!

Subject: RE: remeber the old steam trains,fondly ok
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 07:20 PM

Nothing wonderful about the Gone without regret since they went to standard guage. Give me a spam can anyday or a Q1 or an M1 chugging along the quiet country lines of the LSWR.

Subject: RE: remeber the old steam trains,fondly ok
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 07:03 PM

The GWR,

God's Wonderful Railway!
(or the Great Western Region)

Nigel

Subject: RE: remeber the old steam trains,fondly ok
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 06:58 PM

My favourite is the Crab & Winkle Line

Subject: RE: remeber the old steam trains,fondly ok
From: number 6
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 06:23 PM

my favourite railway line in history is the Old Grand Trunk Railway Company.

sIx

Subject: remeber the old steam trains,fondly ok
From: jpk
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 05:12 PM

my on favorite loco is the old geared shay's