Never too old to have a happy childhood!
You know, I think my mother was right. The 1939 Fair WAS better than the one in 1964!
Amazing old films. There wasn't anything that cool at the fair I went to!
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Jumping ahead a decade
^Great Silent
Musical accompanyment
There's a You Tube video of the "Railroads on Parade" from the 1939 World's Fair. If I can find it I'll try to post it, but I never seem to have much luck with that.
OK, here's a 12 minute video (silent) from the 1939 New York World's Fair, "Railroads on Parade."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUZGLL26_e8
HEY, IT WORKED! Enjoy it everyone! and if you're like me, you're probably wondering if there's a young Dave Klepper in the crowds somewhere. I looked for Mom, but didn't see her. Oh well.
Firelock76"American Railroads" pavilion
That would have been amazing! I would have settled for the 1934 Cleveland Transit Industry Convention. Or this:
The 1936 Great Lakes Exposition. But that was back when the city had a "millionaires row" and Van Sweringen cash. Would have loved to see this too:
But alas, if I had been around and old enough to truly appreciate them back in those days I doubt I'd be here now.
I guess ol' Walt didn't mind after all.
Now if they get rid of the live steam railroads at Disneyland and Walt Disney World he's likely to come back from the dead and raise SERIOUS hell!
Becky, your mom reminds me of my mom. She went to the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York and said the 1964 Fair was a letdown! Of course, she wasn't seeing the '64 fair through the eyes of an eleven year old like she did in '39, but still...
Our reaction? "Awwww, Mommmmmmm....."
A frequent poster here Dave Klepper went to the '39 Fair as well. He's never forgotten the "American Railroads" pavilion with that monster S1.
My mom went to the 64 fair. Needless to say the 82 fair she took me to in Knoxville was a let down by comparison. But I had a ball!
Interresting side note, Walt wanted the Carousel to stay at Disneyland and made those in authority promise that his wishes would be respected. And yet it moved to Florida in 1970 and the building at Anaheim sat empty for years.
Never mind Walt Disney World or Disneyland, I remember the GE "Carousel of Progress" from the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair.
"There's a great, big, beautiful tomorrow..."
Yeah, I'm that old!
I visited WDW for the first time about 10 months ago, one of the highlights was seeing the Carousel of Progress for the first time since 1971 or early 1972. Back then, Disneyland had the Indian War Canoes - the only ride there that was powered by the people, but the first task was teaching the people how to paddle.
Another highlight was being on the behind the scenes tour of the WDW Railroad.
I was attending summer school in 1969, and remember we got July 21st off as celebration for the first moon landing the night before.
Other reminders of getting old - distant memory of riding the Olympian Hiawatha from Seattle to Miles City at 33 months, reading about the demise of the North Shore in 3rd grade, taking the AT&SF (NOT Amtrak) San Diegan to Disneyland, seeing an Espee freight train roll by the Richmond BART station pulled by a brand new SD45-T2, riding the North Coast Hiawatha and seeing remnants of the catenary on the adjacent Milwaukee line.
I was born the day that SP #1 was dedicated for service on the 3 ft gauge Owens valley line.
I was born between Apollo 11 and 12 on the day they started pouring concrete on Cinderella's Castle at WDW. That makes me 47 now so when the mooniversary hits the big five-oh I won't be far behind.
BaltACD Realizing your kids have never seen a telecast of men on the Moon, LIVE.
Realizing your kids have never seen a telecast of men on the Moon, LIVE.
Johnny
The first issue of Trains magazine that I bought was June 1967 - in a few months I'll have had it for 50 years. Reading up the the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire was another gocha.
Lady Firestorm and I just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary. Does it seem like 40 years? No way!
It seems like only yesterday we exited the church into a brief snow shower, which was kinda cool actually. While some people were throwing rice, "someone else" was throwing snow! I took it as a good omen at the time. Looks like I was right.
1992 was 25 years ago? ! Oh boy, that really sucks. Too fast, way way too fast.
You know you're getting old when...you're going through old magazines and realize that current issue from 1992 was printed 25 years ago!
CSSHEGEWISCHI realized that I was getting old when I started seeing SD40-2's being used as hump pushers.
As I recall, B&O's Queensgate yard was using SD40's + a slug as their Hump Engines in the early 1980's. As info CSX's date of formation was Nov. 1, 1980 - 36+ years ago. CSX Transportation came several years later.
RME BaltACD And unless I'm mistaken, a '38 "AC" isn't AC drive, it indicates the use of a traction alternator, and those were put in service much more than 20 years ago.
BaltACD
And unless I'm mistaken, a '38 "AC" isn't AC drive, it indicates the use of a traction alternator, and those were put in service much more than 20 years ago.
CSX's 1st CW44AC #1 shows a build date of 10/1994 in UMLER. The rest of CSX's first order of AC's show build dates of 11/1994.
I knew I was getting old... as you were! Old-er, when I was at a hobby shop and squatted down to read the labels on some MTH train car boxes. Getting down was easy, getting up....ow, ow, ow!
I realized that I was getting old when I started seeing SD40-2's being used as hump pushers.
At least the brown paper bag was environmenally friendly!
....reminds me of the line in Woody Guthrie's tribute to the City of New Orleans....pass the paper bag that holds the bottle....
A belated Happy New Year!
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F07E6D81438EE32A25752C0A9679C946696D6CF
Great little article Wanswheel. Got to luv how Irving Berlin is "just another guy" crammed into that all star lineup. 3 Quarts of confetti in NYC on New Years Eve in Times Square a hundred years ago. Yeesh.
Up here in Canada, stuffy British influence insured those limitations all the time...heaven forbid one has any fun. Please, we're British!. If you wanted to regale in festivities one would have to go to Quebec. This kind of "restraint" went on well into the mid sixties. In fact, up until the mid sixties you had to purchase all liquor from a government outlet that had only a very stern and stark counter, nothing on any shelves, and a published list. You wrote down what you wanted from the list, handed it to the clerk and recieved it on the other end of the counter in a brown paper bag. Used to drive my folks nuts!
I had a sense of this some 30 years ago when a pair of new SD60s wheeled a freight past a long line of stored SD35s and a few SD45s at DeButts Yard. Time does not stand still on a progressive railroad. New things replace old, time marches on.
You've grown old when you wake up January 1, 2017 and you've been married over 49 years....with the same woman!:(
Item: In 1975 Southern Pacific employed a lone Alco C628 to power the train that rebuilt the line between Ennis and Waxahachie, Texas! A Classic in her own time!
Thanks Miningman. Always a pleasure to read your posts. You got a knack for interesting topics. Happy '17.
Wanswheel...Well that's true...I must mention sincere gratitude for all those days where your contributions, research, backups, information and enlightenment is truly a pillar of this forum. Thanks for all of those days and lets find more great information throughout 2017.
You know your time is flying when last New Years Eve seems like just the other day.
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