1:1 Stories

[jeffers_mz]

We all like trains, if you know a good train story, post it up so we all can enjoy it. Here's a teaser from one I like:

"It had taken a lot of convincing the master mechanic in Como that young Albert Falvy knew enough about railroads, and the engines that ran on them, to be sent out
on the Breckenridge as her fireman. Even after the MM reluctantly agreed to let him "try her a whirl over Alpine Pass," there was still the obstacle of Mike Mulrady
to be surmounted. Mike was engineer on the Breckenridge.

"Not only that," the MM told Al, "Mike practically owns that ***ed Mason Bogie. She's his whole life."

"Al was eyeing the reverse mechanism which went over the boiler between smoke stack and bell and connected with a Walschaert valve gear, when a
red-whiskered, red-haired rail wearing an iron hat and smoking a black clay pipe rounded the tender. He carried a long shiny oiler in his right hand, a sizeable chunk
of cotton waste in his left.

"I'm Al Falvy, called to fire this engine," he said to the other. "I take it you're Mike Mulrady?"

"That I am," agreed the whiskered one. "D'ya know anything about firin' ;" "I've shoveled coal into UP, Kansas Pacific and Santa Fe engines," grinned Al.

"***ed boomer," snorted the other. "I'm Mike Mulrady. If we wasn't short of fireboys I'd not take ye out. Not wantin' to put me good-friend, the Master
Mechanic up against it, I'll put up with ye fer one trip."



Read the rest at:

http://www.narrowgauge.org/ncmap/excursion4-bogie-DSPP.html

[joseph2]

I also enjoy old time railroad stories,here is a link to some http://home.mindspring.com/~railroadstories/index.htm I have a fair sized collection of Railroad Magazine from the 1930's to 1970's Joe