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Herd of Iron Horses? Sure, I've Heard of Iron Horses!
Yanno, for a supposed trolley guy, I've got the deuce of a lot of steam locomotives!
And this doesn't include The Cane Train or Lil' Stinky...
Interesting thing is that with the exception of the streamliners, most of these locos are foundlings I've acquired in the past year or so...
Outside track (R-L): Lionel 1668 (1937), Lionel 1666 (1948), Lionel 2025 (1949).
Inside track: Lionel 1688 (1938), pair of Marx 666es (1950s).
Photo © me.
And this doesn't include The Cane Train or Lil' Stinky...
Interesting thing is that with the exception of the streamliners, most of these locos are foundlings I've acquired in the past year or so...
Outside track (R-L): Lionel 1668 (1937), Lionel 1666 (1948), Lionel 2025 (1949).
Inside track: Lionel 1688 (1938), pair of Marx 666es (1950s).
Photo © me.
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Horse
Size 1280 x 957px
File Size 232.7 kB
I prefer steam. A steam locomotive is a living thing. And though energy inefficient, they are much more cool, with lots of moving parts and this...majestic air over them somehow. They weren't just made to drive fast or have lots of horse powers, they were made to look good.
Same thing with cars. While a car of today may have a lot of convenient features such as air con, cameras, ability to play your mp3 music and such, the old (American) cars with lots of chrome and fins were much more cool. They were made to be driven, not just provide transport.
My fellow countryman Hans Christian Andersen once said: "to travel is to live". With steam trains and those cars that were certainly true. Today, we're just being moved from A to B...
Same thing with cars. While a car of today may have a lot of convenient features such as air con, cameras, ability to play your mp3 music and such, the old (American) cars with lots of chrome and fins were much more cool. They were made to be driven, not just provide transport.
My fellow countryman Hans Christian Andersen once said: "to travel is to live". With steam trains and those cars that were certainly true. Today, we're just being moved from A to B...
I have a 9x12 layout at my parent's that I still need to tear down and completely redesign and rebuild at our new place. Hopefully I'll have space for one. I want to design a layout that encompasses all three gauges I have: HO, O and G. Plus be modular, so it could be torn down if necessary or added to at a later date. Quite a task ahead of me when I can finally get to it.
You know? I'd bet you'd enjoy going back in time to the 1939 World's Fair where in the Hall of Transportation they had one of those 1-1 scale streamliners on rollers turning about 1 RPM. Just watching the drivers, valve rods and rockers must... Have... Been... Mes... Mer... Izing...
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