Re: T&P 610 - Link to pics
| April 23, 2015 08:11PM |
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Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> We cannot forget the 2-10-4 610 was used for
> a portion of the Freedom Train, then was leased
> to the Southern Railway for a couple of seasons.
> ... My dad and a couple of friends chased it and
> the photos were horrid, cause it was 95-100 de-
> grees and nothing but smoggy looking pics. No-
> thing worse than steam in mid-summer in most
> of the US (Colorado would be the exception).
Nonsense, Greg -
There are lots of things worse than a steam engine in summer - especially a diseasel!
In fact any diseasel is worse than any steam engine ANY time of year, IMnsHO.
I was lucky - I got to ride on and chase #610 in February, 1976, in Texas. IIRC it rained one of the nights we were in Austin, but otherwise the weather was pretty good, with just enough cloud cover to soften the shadows. For pics see [ngdiscussion.net], [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net].
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> We cannot forget the 2-10-4 610 was used for
> a portion of the Freedom Train, then was leased
> to the Southern Railway for a couple of seasons.
> ... My dad and a couple of friends chased it and
> the photos were horrid, cause it was 95-100 de-
> grees and nothing but smoggy looking pics. No-
> thing worse than steam in mid-summer in most
> of the US (Colorado would be the exception).
Nonsense, Greg -
There are lots of things worse than a steam engine in summer - especially a diseasel!
In fact any diseasel is worse than any steam engine ANY time of year, IMnsHO.
I was lucky - I got to ride on and chase #610 in February, 1976, in Texas. IIRC it rained one of the nights we were in Austin, but otherwise the weather was pretty good, with just enough cloud cover to soften the shadows. For pics see [ngdiscussion.net], [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net].
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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