54light15 You know what else is impressive? The Canadian Warbirds Museums Avro Lancaster that just now flew over my house. 4 Packard-built Merlins makes for some mighty fine music!
You know what else is impressive? The Canadian Warbirds Museums Avro Lancaster that just now flew over my house. 4 Packard-built Merlins makes for some mighty fine music!
Earlier in July, a restored B-24J was here for a show and did a buzz over my house. I would have loved to hear the differences in the sound of the 4 Merlins vs 4 P&W R-1830-35s!
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
Last year the Lancaster flew to Britain to take part in Battle of Britain commemorative flights, along with a Spitfire and Hurricane. What a time to be in Britain! This Labour Day, when the Canadian National Exhibition closes with an air show, there will be a B of B commemorative flight. I can watch that from my back yard with an adult beverage in my hand. But, what a time to be in Britain! Dang!
What a lucky guy to have such a fine neighbor! And a war hero at that!
Well, I just watched "Pacific 231." Hard to say what's more impressive, the music or Monsieur Chapelon's locomotive!
Oooooo-la-la!
Maybe someone should try a video of French steam with that magnificent march "Regiment de Sambre-Meuse" playing in the background.
Hi Fireloco
time is too precious to waste it by anger or other negative emotion . All of us are better off exchanging positive emotion .
If positive emotions cannot be shared I prefer zero emotion , not to become entangled in a negative spin .
Think of how much trouble , fiendishness , riot and - in the final consequence - war could be spared , how much energy could be applied instead to solving urgent global problems crucial to win our future .
See message , too , Fireloco .
Juniatha
Juniatha, you're back! Thank goodness, I thought you were angry with us!
By the way, did you get those 611 pictures I sent you, or attempted to send?
Well , actually the music piece was written before the advent of the locomotive series seen in the film , the Chapelon Pacifics .
Nevertheless , they must have been amazing locomotives indeed : although the spindle is being brought to backwards as seen immediately after that close up on the clock , the locomotive starts out forwards - gee .
Seriously : some really fast revving to be seen at 7:30 , 7:33 , 7:49 and 8:04 ; interesting too : the close to rail view of passing through that wide left at speed , see how the engine's running is shortly being disturbed by switchwork only to re-settle to smooth running immediately after , although trackwork is clearly less than perfect and still *far* from the simply immaculate alignment I witnessed when travelling the SNCF Eastern mainline Strasbourg to Paris with curve lead-in and lead-out as soft as to become hardly noticeable and with just perfect compensation by amount of superelevation . What impressed me , too , was how drivers of those very strong electrics universally started trains in a very smooth style , like emulating a Pacific or Mountain up front , not an electric of potentially high tractive effort which *could* abruptly 'tear' a train off a station platform like to make you sit down whether there's a seat or not , the way some DB drivers would do .
Fascinating to see how these 231. C / .E locomotives of decidedly non-fit outlines came into their own when seen in their smooth running at speed .
edit : Strasbourg in French spelling as spoken in Alsac-Lorraine
Check this out, I remember listening to the music in school many years ago but the film is amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKRCJhLU7rs
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