Bananas

[FJ and G]

When other fruits are out of season, seems there's always bananas, and usually at a decent price. Bananas were among the first tropical fruit Americans could chow down on with the advent of the railway and the reefer a century or so ago, e.g., the Illinois Central from New Orleans, where stevedores unloaded bananas from ship to trains bound for Chicago.

It was a delight yesterday to find a nice banana site I'd like to share with fellow banana lovers. If you go to this link and scroll down a bit, you will see a really cool Hornby 1934 O gauge banana car:

http://www.geocities.com/ferrobanana/

To see real banana trains on that site, go to http://www.geocities.com/ferrobanana/

where you will see how some really weird air trains (monorails) replaced most of the narrow gauge lines. Sort of sad that most of the trains disappeared, but the monorail is a lot cooler than trucks and would look like a fun ride.

[1688torpedo]

Dave- If Groucho reads this, he'll go Bananas Time to split!. P.S. I wonder if you have a Photo of the famous Roseyville Grit's Express. Take Care.

[Anonymous]

Dave- If Groucho reads this, he'll go Bananas Time to split!. P.S. I wonder if you have a Photo of the famous Roseyville Grit's Express. Take Care.

I resemble that remark!

Some of my best friends are bananas.

Waiter! Peel me a grape!

[1688torpedo]

Alright!   The famous Groucho is back! where you've been? Probably at the Coconut's Club? Take Care.

[Anonymous]

I took a trip around the world by car. Do you have any idea how long that takes?!?

Actually, I've been lurking in the background, waiting for the oportune time to strike, I mean post.

If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what does a banana manana do? Hmmmm.

[1688torpedo]

What does a Banana Manana do?  I would guess it depends if they're from Havanna or Ravenna in order to keep a doctor away. No wonder you were gone a long time. A Trip around the World would take a long time in a Corvair as they are not Amphibians or Sea Worthy in such a situation Good to see you back though. Take Care.

[ChiefEagles]

On his TV show, Groucho asked a couple how many kids they had?  They replied, "Eight." He immediately  replied, "I love my cigar but I take it out once in a while."  They took an immedicate station break.  That is a true story. 

[pbjwilson]

Day-o, Day-ay-ay-o, Daylight come and he wanna go home,

Work all night on a drink-a -rum,

Daylioght come and he wanna go home,

Stack banana till the break of dawn,

Daylight come and he wanna go home,

Hey mister tally mon tally me banana,

Daylight come and he wanna go home,

Day-o day-ay-ay-o.................

 

 

[lionelsoni]

And so Harry Belafonte, who sets up a Lionel layout in the apocalyptic 1959 movie, "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil," brings us back to trains.