Re: Monson #3 Returns To Phillips
| July 18, 2016 04:27PM |
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Nice video, Hansel! Thanks so much for sharing it. I will have to try to get back up to Maine this summer to see No. 3 in action.
Is she wearing her B&M 6-chime whistle once again? It sounds amazing, a huge sound coming from such a small engine.
By the way, here are a couple of photos of the wreck mentioned at 6:10 that happened on the curve by the big rock. It was a somewhat bizarre incident that's variously known as the "drift-together" or "roundabout" wreck, and occurred when engines 23 and 16 collided at low speed in the vicinity of the Phillips north yard limit board. As might be predicted, F=ma won out and the bigger engine (23) stayed on the rails while her smaller sister (16) went right over on her side. I don't remember the year but I'm pretty sure it was in the 1920s sometime, not 1912.
-Philip Marshall
Is she wearing her B&M 6-chime whistle once again? It sounds amazing, a huge sound coming from such a small engine.
By the way, here are a couple of photos of the wreck mentioned at 6:10 that happened on the curve by the big rock. It was a somewhat bizarre incident that's variously known as the "drift-together" or "roundabout" wreck, and occurred when engines 23 and 16 collided at low speed in the vicinity of the Phillips north yard limit board. As might be predicted, F=ma won out and the bigger engine (23) stayed on the rails while her smaller sister (16) went right over on her side. I don't remember the year but I'm pretty sure it was in the 1920s sometime, not 1912.
-Philip Marshall
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Hansel7470 | July 18, 2016 03:25PM |
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Ted miles | July 18, 2016 05:58PM |
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