Thrilled to have the pictures from Winfield. Sad that the man who provided them has passed away. R.I.P. Shooshie
Just a followup; I've been here for two weeks, and it feels like years. Every day since I signed up, I've explored the threads from the present to...
Thanks, Jerome, I think I put those two together and somehow got you crossed with the head on. I did work with someone who told me that story...
Jerome, I remember that derailment. I heard about it through the family grapevine that winter. But… was there also a head-on down southwest of...
Interesting to see those old U-boats shooting flames like that. Of course, that was more-or-less the way they ran. I mean, maybe not...
Thanks for the info, Roger. I was wondering when they sold the engine. 1982 would sound about right. Just another abandonment to most, but to...
You mean an "award winning, grand champion-at-the-fair, prized bull". :eek:
Thanks for the info. As for the shipments, either you're right about Latham & Atlanta, or else they ran something out from Beaumont to pick those...
Now you've got me curious, and I guess I'll have to get out my Official Guide to take a look at the Missouri Pacific map. I didn't know it went...
Wow, so that means the bridge was still there, then, when I was up that way in 1974. I guess we could have gone to Beaumont if the orders had said...
Never made it to Beaumont. Wish I had; I'd like to have seen the water tower. Many of the engineers of that time still talked about steam. One or...
Yes, these were slides I took in 1974. The Ark City Switcher on the Beaumont Sub would make a good prototype for a layout, actually. There's the...
As a young brakeman on the Frisco, the only assignments on which I could successfully bid and stand a chance of winning were the outlying ones....
At the risk of hijacking this thread away from the topic of roller bearings (which the consensus is that they did not exist on Frisco steam), this...
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