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Old 03-07-2010, 04:40 PM   #2341
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This is Salem, IL looking South.
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Old 03-07-2010, 07:25 PM   #2342
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Year.....1948. This is a steam powered locomotive that my folks got me for my 5th birthday. We lived in Boston, but had a non-working farm in NH. That's where it was set up. Yes, it burned coal. I remember popping coal into the firebox. Made darn sure it was full of water.
This "toy" would never be sold today...a potential bomb. There was a locomotive, coal car, two open top cars and a caboose. We had about 1/4 mile of track on the farm. My memory is fading about details. I do havbe 8mm films of me driving it around. I would like to know who built it and where. Anything? Anybody?
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Old 03-07-2010, 09:37 PM   #2343
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Backyard live steam railroad, that is just the titz...........................
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Old 03-07-2010, 10:10 PM   #2344
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Year.....1948. This is a steam powered locomotive that my folks got me for my 5th birthday. We lived in Boston, but had a non-working farm in NH. That's where it was set up. Yes, it burned coal. I remember popping coal into the firebox. Made darn sure it was full of water.
This "toy" would never be sold today...a potential bomb. There was a locomotive, coal car, two open top cars and a caboose. We had about 1/4 mile of track on the farm. My memory is fading about details. I do havbe 8mm films of me driving it around. I would like to know who built it and where. Anything? Anybody?
WOW... what ever happened to it? That is some 'toy' you had.
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Old 03-07-2010, 10:13 PM   #2345
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This is Salem, IL looking South.
I love these old pictures, check out the ornate casting on the light pole. You never see that stuff now (not new anyway).
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Old 03-07-2010, 11:57 PM   #2347
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Lucky. The only thing I ever got that came remotely close to that was a Lionel train set when I was ten. And what do you mean "bomb"? The only way a steam engine becomes a bomb is when you keep feeding the fire and making more steam without releasing it in some way.
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yes, i have seen this cars and they really do suck, what i am talking about is totally identical body only with new engines and stuff
That will never happen, for the same reasons they will won't make an efficient alternatively powered car that looks like a normal vehicle. It would upset the natural order of things.

Besides, cars/toasters/video games/shoes/etc. made today aren't designed to last long. Big timers back in the 50's realized that what they needed to do was re-sale the same products over again to the same buyers. They made things cheaper and were designed to fail, but not so soon that customers would loose faith in the product. This marketing strategy wasn't even kept a secret, and it has evolved today into making everything disposable instead of repairable. Look under a new Buick and tell me how many grease-fittings you see....
The genius mechanics in Cuba couldn't even make these new cars last half as long as they've kept our 50's model cars going.
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