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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
This is kind of fun. Back when I lived in West River, you could drive down to Cheyenne or Scottsbluff, and occasionally see this old girl hauling a heavy freight between Cheyenne and Omaha…. here she’s doing the work of five diesels…
The Giza Forum (Legacy)
Closed Archive of The Old Forum
I love these old locomotives… but anyway… enough of that! Back to work!
Definitely not the Shinkansen. https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2018.html
http://www.livingdesert.org/plan-your-visit/things-to-do-and-see/g-scale-model-train-display/
I sometimes even entertain the idea that when Union Pacific decided to create its Legacy (or Heritage or whatever they call it) fleet, that there may have been some hidden reasons…
Steam engines are the train version of manual typewriters…
…with added reliability and power from use of advanced materials not available in the steam era.
Dr Farrell is definitely old-fashioned in every way one can think of. – conserving the best from our past, and that is good. Society is changing too fast for the benefit of many people who want a tranquil life,. But if it did not, we might have been bored. Best is to sit on the sidelines and observe the world from one’s old-fashioned private bubble-reality.