CPR Steam Last stand ..1960 Royal Hudsons

[Flintlock76]

Overmod

While we are on the subject of Klingon and streamlining:

 

'IwlIj jachjaj!

reH taHjaj!

 

 

 

 

 

 

You know, that does kinda-sorta remind one of a Klingon battlecruiser!

Maybe we should  head "across the pond" for a look at what good 'ol Scotty might have sicced on 'em...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDQAsXS1iU  

Was Scotty a Jacobite?  I don't know, he never said.

Anyway, we DO know Scotty didn't take any crap off anyone, especially Klingons!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsO-7ENKGP4  

"Will ye no come back again, will ye no come back again?

Better loved ye canna be, will ye no come back again?"  

[Overmod]

Miningman

My Klingon a bit weak.. something about ' scream' or maybe just scream.

Beware the literal translation -- here as in so many other contexts.

Here is a useful tutorial.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Miningman

Hey! Get your stinkin Diesels off the Royal Hudson thread... geez you've already got at least 3 threads on streamliners where this belongs. No respect! 

Launch the cows! 

 

Jamais!!  Streamlined steam locomotives are teakettles trying to look like the diesels that inspired the attempt.

[Miningman]

See.. best Forum in the history of the world. 

My Klingon a bit weak.. something about ' scream' or maybe just scream. 

[Overmod]

While we are on the subject of Klingon and streamlining:

 

'IwlIj jachjaj!

reH taHjaj!

 

 

 

 

 

[Miningman]

Hey! Get your stinkin Diesels off the Royal Hudson thread... geez you've already got at least 3 threads on streamliners where this belongs. No respect! 

Launch the cows! 

[Jones1945]

CSSHEGEWISCH

Sounds like the Pioneer Zephyr to me.

I never underestimate or look down streamliners like Pioneer Zephyr and all Zephyr of CB&Q, they were, according to the historical trend and what really happened in the RR history of America, The Zephyr together with UP's early diesel streamliner were the real "Train of the Tomorrow" a.k.a Diesel powered streamliner. : )

[Miningman]

This is the greatest Forum in all of history! 

Chapeau to Lady Firestorm. 

[Flintlock76]

Lady Firestorm asked me to spring this on everyone, just to keep things bovine.

And she must  be obeyed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZJZfdtcKBA  

Uh, my Klingonese is a bit rusty.  OK, it's non-existant.  

And I only know enough German to get myself in deep trouble.

[Penny Trains]

English Hol jatlh nuqneH!  pagh tlhIngan mughmeH ghun lo' jItlhIjchoHtaH!  Qapla'!

[Miningman]

That's deep!

A bottle of wine and some Laughing Cow Cheese is always a winner on the second date. I know that there are fine cheeses to go along with wine but the Laughing Cow on a first romantic interlude melts the ladies. 

The cow is Laughing along with us. Job well done. Those French eh! 

 

[selector]

Miningman

That is the question! Why is the cow laughing ?  Probably the nice red earrings and she's happy. 

 

Parce que le produit n'est-ce pas le vrais fromage...?  IOW, joke's on the customer.

[Flintlock76]

With the greatest of respect to Overmod's admiration of British steam locomotives, and don't we all admire those gorgeous machines?

The Brits did build perfect locomotives, but the problem with a perfect locomotive is it needs a perfect roadbed to run on, which is the reason they never caught on here in the New World, in the US and Canada.

In Britain, with railroad builders rollin' in money, cheap labor, and shorter distances to travel building a perfect roadbed wasn't an issue.  Not so here.

It also meant that there was a great marketing opportunity around the turn of the 20th Century for American builders like Baldwin, ALCO, Porter, and others when developing nations started building railroads of their own with less than perfect roadbeds, hence the reason there's American steam locomotives found all over the world.  

The Canadians came up with their own masterpieces that worked well for them, that Royal Hudson being a prime example.

Hey, it's all good, as long as it's steam.

Speaking of "Lord Of The Rings" spoofs, this is the best one I've seen, but you'd better stand by, it's a little rough!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8jW19Ibjyo  

[Overmod]

Penny Trains

Overmod

Honi soit la vache qui rit

  Sounds like my family motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense.

 

It's taken from this (the elided words being an ancient slur on Italians) which is a parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's poetry:

***, ***, Lassi Lima rintintin
Yanqui unicycle ramar rotoroot
Telstar aloha saarinen cloret
Stassen camaro impala desoto?
Gardol oleo telephon lumumba!
Chappaqua havatampa muriel
U canleada horsta wata, bwana,
Butyu canna makit drinque!

Comsat melba rubaiyat nirvana
Garcia y vega hiawatha aloo.
O mithra, mithra, I fain wud lie doon!
Valdaree valdera, que sera, sirrah,
Honi soit la vache qui rit,
Honi soit la vache qui rit.

The source from which this derives is worth reading for the contemporary cultural references, among other things...

[Miningman]

That is the question! Why is the cow laughing ?  Probably the nice red earrings and she's happy. 

[Deggesty]

Pourquoi rit la vache?

[Flintlock76]

Ah, that's right Becky, you're a Plantagenet!

No wonder you're the "Queen of O Gauge" for the rest of us "Classic Toy Trains" folks!

I'm just a humble knight of the order "Semper Fidelis," but my sword is yours!

Wayne

[Penny Trains]

Overmod

Honi soit la vache qui rit

Sounds like my family motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense.

[Miningman]

[Overmod]

Fetchez la vache!

Honi soit la vache qui rit,

Honi soit la vache qui rit... you showed what to my aunt?

But I think the Quebecois prefer sheep to cows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jC7NKkjCe0

[Miningman]

Urgent hot message to Overmod from Montreal 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ey0wvGiAH9g

 

[Flintlock76]

Overmod

 

 

Flintlock76

"If any locomotive was ever granted a knighthood, this was it!"

 

 

Sounds like the sort of thing to expect from the folks that sold us Proto-Sound 1.

Conveniently ignoring Blighty where they had a whole class of locomotives actually bearing knighthoods... and deserving them.

 

Nuthin' wrong with Proto-Sound 2 or 3, I'm a happy customer with those two.

Never had an MTH engine with Proto 1, so I can't comment on those.

Anyway, I like Mikes catalogs, very colorful and much better than Lionels.

[Overmod]

Flintlock76

"If any locomotive was ever granted a knighthood, this was it!"

Sounds like the sort of thing to expect from the folks that sold us Proto-Sound 1.

Conveniently ignoring Blighty where they had a whole class of locomotives actually bearing knighthoods... and deserving them.

[Flintlock76]

I always liked the looks of those Royal Hudsons, a nice blend of the British and American esthetic.

I'm surprised the crown is missing from the skirtings on those locomotives pictured, maybe they lost them after a while, or never had them to begin with?

Anyway, a Mike's Train House O gauge catalog described the honorific "Royal Hudson" better than anyone else...

"If any locomotive was ever granted a knighthood, this was it!"

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Jones1945

Streamlined 

Served the people for a long period of time 

Always looks CLEAN and neat 

Simple but classy 

Capable to reach higher speed

Sounds like the Pioneer Zephyr to me.

[Jones1945]

Streamlined 

Served the people for a long period of time 

Always looks CLEAN and neat 

Simple but classy 

Capable to reach higher speed

 

[Miningman]

Royal Hudsons 2820-2864

H1c 2820-2849

H1c 2820 first of the semi-streamlined 2800's. MLW #68956 9/1937 Glen, Montreal 3/24/1960 
Glen yard shop track very late in the steam era still working in passenger (commuter) service.

Note: 2459, 2811, 2816, 2820 and 2822 were still in commuter service in May of 1960. 
Last steam likely was 2820 with a Montreal bound freight train (transfer?) sighted on June 29th.1960.

Missing its Royal Crown which had become a collectors item!