This was brought to my attention earlier this morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Kljmz_c-QQ8
I'd seen the picture of the girls pulling a Niagara in Staufer's Thoroughbreds, a re-enactment of the stunt publicizing the Four Aces 4-8-4's roller bearings. I confess that 17-year-old me wondered what those girls were like, based on their facial expressions. Lo and behold, here they are in action!
Note the lovely Rolling-Power style view of the side of a Niagara in motion!
(I tried not to snicker at the part preceding this, where the straight-faced claim is made that smoother riding of passenger trains is the result of rolling-element friction reduction...)
That was a fun film Mod-Man! Thanks!
That was fascinating- I love the women's hair styles of the 1940s. Mr Smith must have been paid well, driving a 1939 Buick and his wife had those modern conveniences.
Yes, the Niagara they pulled is a beauty. I happen to have it in HO scale. I'd love to have spent an afternoon with the ladies to talk about their experience and what they thought of a heavy locomotive rendered easily moved by roller bearings, but with chaperone of course..
Here is the same S1-b, #6001, only in HO scale.
selector Yes, the Niagara they pulled is a beauty. I happen to have it in HO scale. I'd love to have spent an afternoon with the ladies to talk about their experience and what they thought of a heavy locomotive rendered easily moved by roller bearings, but with chaperone of course.. Here is the same S1-b, #6001, only in HO scale.
Arriving right on the advertised! Nice!
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