Sunday Photo Fun 6 - 5 - 2011

[balidas]

Absolutely love those cab forwards! Scenery also looks awesome!

[fifedog]

Great photos everyone.

Great storyline Northwoods.

[Northwoods Flyer]

Great photos everyone.  Thanks for posting.

 

RIP

I was down at the coffee shop earlier this week and the old guys were all there and pretty excited.  It seems that there was an obituary in the paper for one of the more notorious hometown boys.  As I listened from my stool at the counter sipping my cup of java, one of the old guys read the obituary for Tomaso Cabodi, or as one of the guys referred to him: Tommy "The Collector" Cabodi.  I listened with interest as they swapped stories about Tommy growing up locally and then going to Chicago and joining up with one of the gangs during the '20's and on into Prohibition.

I listened to the stories for quite a while and then headed out with my trusty Kodak Brownie to see if I could catch any rail traffic headed through town.  I wasn't disappointed. I got some great shots for future SPF sessions, but what really caught my eye was a motorcade of black cars coming down the street as I walked home through town.

 

 

 

 

I remember the old guys talking earler in the day.  The obiturary said that Tommy's widow was bringing his body back through Wisconsin for one last visit.  Tommy had married a silent movie era star whose stage name was Merry Caprice.  She had worked with a lot of the leading men of the era: Douglas Fairbanks, Ronald Coleman, and even Charlie Chaplan.  One of the old guys said that she didn't have much talent but thought he remembered that she had some kind of "connections"  One of the other guys whispered that he had heard her real name was Marietta Capone. This must be the funeral procession. 

 

As I stood on the street watching, the hearse passed and then a pretty fancy old limo.

 

 

Right behind the limo was a stream of black sedans that I can only imagine held some of Tommy's associates from Chicago.

 

 

The procession moved slowly through town.  I wasn't sure if it was so that the locals could gawk, or if the grieving widow could get a good look at the town where Tommy grew up.

 

 

Eventually the procession pulled up to the biggest church in town.  The old guys said that Tommy and Merry had gotten married here.

 

 

 

 A heavily veiled woman stepped out of the limo and made her way into the church.  After a short while she returned to the limo and the procession started out again through the downtown area.

 

 

Just as they were heading out of town and heading north they had to stop for a freight.

 

 

A few days later one of the old guys said his wife's cousin had seen the procession pull into the parking lot of Little Bohemia up in Mantowish Waters where Tommy and Merry had spent their honeymoon.

 

You never can tell what you will see passing through town.  I'm glad I had my Brownie at the ready.

 

Enjoying the World's Greatest Hobby

Northwoods Flyer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Seayakbill]

Spanky, neat video, that Texas Special better pick up speed or it will be late arriving at the next station.

[spankybird]

Here comes the Texas Special!. This is an MTH Premier set. (PS1)

 

and here it is in action VIDEO

[Pete in W'brg]

Weatherd Cabforward  coming off a bridge:

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n the mountains:

[Seayakbill]

 A Williams BNSF Geep passes through the yard as Northern Pacific and Spokane Portland & Seattle RS-3's are on red light hold.