This week at Knotts!
| December 05, 2008 09:29PM |
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Well this week at knotts its actually getting cold in the mornings. And for me(lately) that makes me want to get to work sooner to fire off the locos and warm up a bit. I know what your thinking COLD in SOCAL! Well for a 150lbs kid born and raised here it gets cold.
Any way enough about me. The other great thing about it being cold is that when the train moves for the first time in the morning the steam rises out of the stack and lingers in the cold air. It looks really cool.Ill have to try and get some pics of that.
Well Christmas is coming and the park shows it with holiday decorations all over, even on the locos. Steam is also running now through the end of the year. So thats great.
Oh and 340 is out!
After a long stay in the roundhouse for some time consuming repairs 340 returns to the not so high iron. She also has the single chime whistle (back form its trip to Colorado) temporarily because her 5 chime got stuck half open. This may only be on for another week or so, as we have fixed the 5 chime.
340in the depot at 6:44am this morning.
Any way enough about me. The other great thing about it being cold is that when the train moves for the first time in the morning the steam rises out of the stack and lingers in the cold air. It looks really cool.Ill have to try and get some pics of that.
Well Christmas is coming and the park shows it with holiday decorations all over, even on the locos. Steam is also running now through the end of the year. So thats great.
Oh and 340 is out!
After a long stay in the roundhouse for some time consuming repairs 340 returns to the not so high iron. She also has the single chime whistle (back form its trip to Colorado) temporarily because her 5 chime got stuck half open. This may only be on for another week or so, as we have fixed the 5 chime.
340in the depot at 6:44am this morning.
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