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here it is a week later, and IT'S STILL FEBRUARY!
6 years ago
When will Spring Spring?
lately I been painting. Not all that great. I'll post one soon.
I've fallen in love with these adorable tiny little narrow gauge steam locos, in China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WznzgvP9cts
They run on 762mm (about 30 in.) gauge tracks, for clay-pit, coal mine, or quarry services. I think most are gone as of 2017, but they're still chugging. And I think the Shibanxi Ry has turned to tourism. (How Capitalist!?!) The lokies are called C2 class, 0-8-0, a russian design, copied all over asia and E. Europe.
I still love steam locomotives. The saddest day in my career? Stepping down from a WMRY caboose, on WMRY trackage, after working as a brakeman on a steam powered WMSR train...
I still go out and watch the trains, but they all look the same to me these days.
OK. Zippy's done his rant and will step off of his Hyde Park soap box now. God Bless you all.
lately I been painting. Not all that great. I'll post one soon.
I've fallen in love with these adorable tiny little narrow gauge steam locos, in China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WznzgvP9cts
They run on 762mm (about 30 in.) gauge tracks, for clay-pit, coal mine, or quarry services. I think most are gone as of 2017, but they're still chugging. And I think the Shibanxi Ry has turned to tourism. (How Capitalist!?!) The lokies are called C2 class, 0-8-0, a russian design, copied all over asia and E. Europe.
I still love steam locomotives. The saddest day in my career? Stepping down from a WMRY caboose, on WMRY trackage, after working as a brakeman on a steam powered WMSR train...
I still go out and watch the trains, but they all look the same to me these days.
OK. Zippy's done his rant and will step off of his Hyde Park soap box now. God Bless you all.
for me it is sufficient to run on steel rails instead of rubber tyres.
and the aesthetic of a reduced/minimal form factor.
It's a hyena thing.
Am surprised that China still uses the Link n Pin couplers
Interesting symbol on the side of that engine too..
Temps are doing the yo-yo here, waiting for them to stay up for a while. I wanna get out and do some cycling!
The symbol on the loco's side is the for the peoples forestry administration. See, I done my Commie homework!
And like everyone else, I love the juxtaposition of old and new in the final scene.