Re: West Side #9

Thanks, Ed ....

Ahhh ... the smell of coal smoke in the air! Not from No. 9 of course, but in the first sequence when they passed the various traction engines, etc., you can see the smoke wafting towards the track. Would liked to have been there. When I was a kid, I used to go to the Threshermen's Reunions in Illinois .... quite a show. I learned to fire with coal on a 1916 Case traction engine when I was about 12 or 13.

Skip Luke
Switchman (ret): Grand Canyon Railway;
Engineer (ret): Georgetown Loop RR Inc., Sumpter Valley Ry., Monticello & Sangamon Valley;
Dispatcher(ret): Illinois Central, White Pass & Yukon, Burlington Northern Ry.
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