So I was poking around with a box of family photo albums today and, long story short, that lead me to looking something up in this book:
I've known about this book for many years and I know it's been in the family for at least 100 years. But I noticed something today that somehow I overlooked.
Here's my great-grandfather's (James Arthur Maloney) family trace.
Over at the bottom of the page are my grandparents names, Frank and Harriet Chestney.
Is it just me, or is there something hillarious and fitting that my tie to the royal blood line is through a guy named LIONEL!
How did I miss THAT!?!
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
I could never quite put my finger on it, but I've always felt you were royalty.
Me, I've been told by family that I am a direct descendant of His Majesty King Edward 111 's court jester...
Becky, it just means you were fated to be a toy train fanatic and the "Queen of the Classic Toy Trains Forum!"
It was in the blood all along.
I'm supposed to have an Italian knight, a cavaliere, in the family way-way-way-way back. Beats the hell out of me. Hasn't done me any good.
That book's a heckuva thing to have in the family though! What an artefact!
What would be awesome, is if the family crest was orange and blue.
fifedog What would be awesome, is if the family crest was orange and blue.
I hate to seem ignorant, but I'm scratching my head over that one.
Orange and blue? First generation Jersey Central diesel colors?
Flintlock76fifedog What would be awesome, is if the family crest was orange and blue. I hate to seem ignorant, but I'm scratching my head over that one. Orange and blue? First generation Jersey Central diesel colors?
Uhhh - look at a Lionel box
Regards, Roy
wrmcclellan Flintlock76 fifedog What would be awesome, is if the family crest was orange and blue. I hate to seem ignorant, but I'm scratching my head over that one. Orange and blue? First generation Jersey Central diesel colors? Uhhh - look at a Lionel box
Flintlock76 fifedog What would be awesome, is if the family crest was orange and blue. I hate to seem ignorant, but I'm scratching my head over that one. Orange and blue? First generation Jersey Central diesel colors?
Ohhhhhh, yeah. I'm a little slow sometimes. Thank you!
Which came first. The box or the CNJ diesel paint scheme?
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
NVSRR Which came first. The box or the CNJ diesel paint scheme?
The Lionel box.
The Jersey Central color scheme was actually referred to as "tangerine and blue." It was a good looking color scheme for their post-war diesels, unfortunately the paints available at the time didn't hold up well, so the JC went to a "sea green" color scheme by the 50s.
Whether they were influenced by the Lionel box is a good question, I don't know myself.
That "tangerine and blue" still goes well on diesels, have a look...
www.nsdash9.com/heritage/NS1071.html
If you know the names of any ancestors who were living around 1900 I'm sure they're in this thing too. I looked up my best friend's great grandfather and found out our 5th great grandmothers were sisters, making us 6th cousins. She was an Adams decended from the presidents. Though more likely she decended from one of the president's servants, just like I decended from the naughty daughter of a nobleman who married an Irish peasant!
Not "The Whistling Gypsy Rover" by any chance?
For those who don't know the story...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93oVQt82O-A
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