Getting back to the trolley-in-the-house thing, and I don't mind a subject shift at all, it's always been a fantasy of mine to go to an old neighborhood and have a Superman-like ability to pick up a house, or even a whole block, turn it over, shake it, and see what falls out.
Who knows what kind of goodies are out there waiting to be discovered?
Hey, a cop friend of mine up in New Jersey once got a call to go to an old ladys house and remove a gun she found in the attic. Turns out it was a 37mm cannon her husband souvenired from World War One!
One of these cute little things...
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/cannon/m1916-37mm-gun/#jp-carousel-10200
One thing that amazes me is the quality of that photo of the lieutenants with the cannon. It looks like it was shot yesterday and not 100 years ago!
Not sure where that picture was taken. Found it on Flickr with a very small description that they were waiting for the scrapper. Perhaps someone here knows where this was.
Miss Katy had PAs stored in Waco and Parsons in the 60s before Mr. Barriger traded them in for new power. Included were the two demo units that had toured Canada on Canadian National. They were painted in CN's attractive green and gold sans CN lettering. A pity they didn't get saved.
Those dead Santa Fe PA's wouldn't be in Texas, would they? I seem to remember some dead line west of Houston off of Alternate US Route 90, if I recall. Of course, I've been out of Houston 35 years now.
I keep hoping someone will go up into Grandpa's attic and find some color movies of Rutland steam and early diesels. Color with sound and no corny music in the background. One can hope...
Miningman ...but truth is stranger than fiction and ya just never really know.
...but truth is stranger than fiction and ya just never really know.
Very true. This post reminds me a story happened in Hong Kong, an ex-British colony until 1997, now one of a Special Administrative Region of China.
Two A W. G. Bagnall 0-4-4PT narrow gauge steam locomotive, sold in the late-1920s, were found and restored from the Philippines in 1995. The locomotive is one of two that formerly ran on the narrow gauge branch line between Fanling and Sha Tau Kok. When that closed, they were used by sugar mills in the Philippines. The other locomotive of the pair was also brought back to Hong Kong and restored.
After 75 years, reunion and well preserved.
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Well you never really do know. Until definite documentation appears I wouldn't give up on the 'Erie in South Korea' angle. We know there are 2 Baldwin Sharks locked up in a barn unseen and inaccessible. However dreams of a stashed NYC Hudson or a T1 or Q2 in some far flung Pennsy outpost hidden in cut off and inside a tunnel are a pipe dream...but truth is stranger than fiction and ya just never really know.
Dead line ... Sante Fe PA's
Thanks for sharing!
...like cool stuff like this!
Here's a story from the Wilke-Barre PA newspaper about a 1924 Brill trolley car that's been found in a local house! Just amazing!
https://www.timesleader.com/news/719208/group-aims-to-rescue-restore-wilkes-barres-last-trolley
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