Who Remembers Steam?

[earthman]

I am proud to say i remember riding on a train pulled by one of the last steam locmotives. Yes it was the end of an era. A lot realness seemed to go out of the world when they faded away.
Anyone else remember riding a steamtrain? How about an electric streetcar on rails in the city?

 

[Gastrick]

I've ridden on a steam train......sort of. It was only a five mile trip on the steam train at Dollywood but it was still a great experience. The sounds and smells were awesome. This is the train.

 

[Charley Davidson]

I rode the DollyWood train also

But my fondest memories of steam was going to the basement of an old factory for a bucket of it.

 

[earthman]

That'll work

 

[earthman]

Well if you ever had a first day working for a masonry crew Charley they would have sent you to the truck to fetch a skyhook

 

[Charley Davidson]

And I would have went[S

 

[anvil]

I was in a shop yesterday that still builds steam engines, boilers and puts them to work. Their are steam boats, tractors and donkeys at his place.He uses a 1900's steam tractor to grade his drive way and the logging tools to pull firewood in his back yard and so on.

 

[earthman]

I would like to see steam power combined with modern tech Anvil.

 

[dmw56]

Cumbres Toltec Railroad between Chama, NM and San Antonito, CO Oct 2010

 

[earthman]

Must have been a fine ride DMW

 

[Bonehead]

I remember steam heat..... does that count?

 

[skullworks]

my old man was the cheif car mechanic for the d&sngrr (durango and silverton narrow guage rail road) for many years when i was a kid. its an all steam train running from durango colorado to silverton. i grew up around steam engines, big and small. one of his final projects, which never got completed sadly, was a 6 horsepower steam power plant he planned on mounting to the back of a large two ton truck. he had the engine and boiler and the truck, but never the money needed for the restoration. he also built a bar be que from the boiler from a donkey engine, and our old woodstove on the farm was a boiler standing in the middle of the living room that he cut a door in and would feed trees.

 

[earthman]

I remember steam heat..... does that count?

Steamheat Was that a one room country school BH?

 

[earthman]

Wow! Used to go thru Durango every week Skull. Always wanted to take that ride but never got to.

 

[Bonehead]

Maybe it was Canned Heat that I remember....

 

[Sam_Fear]

Wow, this thread is heading toward FAIL....

Rode that same train DMW. Might have to dig out the ton-o-pics I took.

 

[earthman]

No worries Sam it'll get back on track It's gonna run outa steam soon anyway.

 

[cycledog]

I thought you were talking about Steam, the musical group

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[earthman]

I thought you were talking about Steam, the musical group

NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE.......[cl[cl

You and BH....i'm takin' yer names down

 

[Gastrick]

You and BH....i'm takin' yer names down

Will it go in their permanent record?