Nanicoke and Hanover still surviving, last summer, from a once very extensive system, then mostly trolleybus.
Thanks David!
I still shake my head, that extensive network of reliable non-polluting transportation, and it's gone! All gone!
What happened? What the heck happened?
OK, I know what happened. But it didn't have to happen. That's the real shame.
Like a lot of wars, I suppose.
One could have hoped that Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers could have become composers and artists, instead of what they became. Maybe Harry Turtledove will write an Alternate History novel in which something like that happens!
Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers.
Well, I don't hate them for what they did. They did what they did and that's that, and if they didn't someone else would have. And since I drive and love airplanes, well, what can I say?
I save my animosity for Rudolf Diesel.
Flintlock76I save my animosity for Rudolf Diesel.
...he said in an oily voice.
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Penny Trains Flintlock76 I save my animosity for Rudolf Diesel. ...he said in an oily voice.
Flintlock76 I save my animosity for Rudolf Diesel.
Wow! Someone else knows that line besides me! Cool!
"Hell-loooooo, my name is Deeee-zellll!" he said in an oily voice.
At least that's the way I do it...
"Diesel's Devious Deed," a classic of Western Literature!
Flintlock76 Penny Trains Flintlock76 I save my animosity for Rudolf Diesel. ...he said in an oily voice. Wow! Someone else knows that line besides me! Cool! "Hell-loooooo, my name is Deeee-zellll!" he said in an oily voice. At least that's the way I do it... "Diesel's Devious Deed," a classic of Western Literature!
In and out he creeps about
Like a big black weasel
When he pulls the wrong cars out
POP goes the diesel!
You have to imagine Alvin & the Chipmunks singing it to get the full effect....
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
Wow 'Dude, I didn't know you could sing!
SD70DudeIn and out he creeps about Like a big black weasel When he pulls the wrong cars out POP goes the diesel! You have to imagine Alvin & the Chipmunks singing it to get the full effect....
"POP goes the diesel". Groucho Marx used that line in their movie "Go West." Ironically enough, they were feeding popcorn into the firebox of a steam locomotive!
Flintlock76 Wow 'Dude, I didn't know you could sing!
I have a voice made for print....
But I did grow up watching Thomas the Tank Engine, and playing with the wooden toys. We got a mix of the British and American narrators in Canada, Ringo and George Carlin were the two best ones.
Carlin gave George the steamroller a absolutely terrific voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqTiYUthX-4
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