CNHMTC June Tour, Vote YES if you feel as I do, that driving a Model T is the only civilized way to travel! If you don't feel you can vote yes, then stay home, sit on the front porch and watch us big dogs roll by.
Happy motoring, Warren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIRy88i8flc
yes - you get my vote
got my vote!!
YES!
Oooo-yeah! Wonderful.
Dave, Tim, Mike & Wayne, very happy you enjoyed the video. I really do feel a Model T is the only civilized way to travel, only exception would be if your riding in a big old Steam Train.
Happy motoring, Warren
Warren: Yes. Yesterday I covered both. I was driving my T while wearing my Big Boy 4884 T-shirt.
So ya all had to stop at the lake to get water for the radiators!
Looked like Warren's didn't need it...his moto meter was nice 'n cool!
Oh yes, and those are some great T
Touring roads.
Dave, now I'm jealous, do you have any pictures of Big Boy that you can post, please. Oh, I thought you said you were riding on Big Boy, the excitement of reading Big Boy got to me. I think you have to go to North Platte or Denver to see/ride the train, it's on my bucket list.
Fred, Tim has good eyes, I never saw any red in my moto meter unless it was parked or stop at a traffic light.
Gary, you are so correct, New Hampshire has some great roads for Model Ts to tour on.
Happy motoring, Warren a.k.a. "old Dog"
Warren: The Big Boy I saw on Mother's Day is an accessible static display at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay WI. I have pics, but I have not figures out how to make them small enough to post. It's an awesome display. The enormity of the engine is almost intimidating.
I didn't think there were any operating 4884's left. I know the UP has a 4664 Challenger, which would be fun to personally see in motion.
Dave - You are exactly correct! As of right now, there is NO "Big Boy" in running condition. However, restoration of one is presently being considered. Very, VERY costly, to say the least! I sure hope this effort is successful!
A year or so before I retired, I had the opportunity to ride the UP3985 (Challenger) from Portland, Oregon to The Dalles, by personal invitation of the then fireman (Lynn Nystrom...R.I.P) who was an "ex" Rock Island RR Special Agent. Without question, standing behind Steve Lee, the "hogger" on the world's largest running steam locomotive, pulling a heavy passenger "special" up that long grade, eastward out of Portland with the throttle notched out wide and the Johnson bar "down in the corner" was a "highlight" of my 34 career as UPRR Senior Special Agent (retired), and an experience I'll never forget! I remember thinking to myself, every time we passed a major highway crossing where there were dozens of rail fans, "man-o-man, there are people out there watching us pass that would "kill" to be where I am right now"! Still gives me "chills" up my spine even now, just remembering the experience,......harold
Dave - You are exactly correct! As of right now, there is NO "Big Boy" in running condition. However, restoration of one is presently being considered. Very, VERY costly, to say the least! I sure hope this effort is successful!
A year or so before I retired, I had the opportunity to ride the UP3985 (Challenger) from Portland, Oregon to The Dalles, by personal invitation of the then fireman (Lynn Nystrom...R.I.P) who was an "ex" Rock Island RR Special Agent. Without question, standing behind Steve Lee, the "hogger" on the world's largest running steam locomotive, pulling a heavy passenger "special" up that long grade, eastward out of Portland with the throttle notched out wide and the Johnson bar "down in the corner" was a "highlight" of my 34 career as UPRR Senior Special Agent (retired), and an experience I'll never forget! I remember thinking to myself, every time we passed a major highway crossing where there were dozens of rail fans, "man-o-man, there are people out there watching us pass that would "kill" to be where I am right now"! Still gives me "chills" up my spine even now, just remembering the experience,......harold
Dang,....did it again,....sorry for the double post!
Harold and Warren: Steam locomotion is literally in my blood. I have a set of 5 pics given to me by my uncle from around 1950 of my Grandpa next and in his engine, ICRR 2730. It was a 2-10-2 used to pull coal cars out of the coal fields in southern IL. Scrapped in 1-57, he spent his last 3 year running diesel and never really liked it.
Dave - I can "relate"! My grandfather was a Soo Line engineer, working most of his 44 years on switch engine jobs out of the Soo yard in Schiller Park, Illinois. He retired when I was still a kid in '54 or '55, but I remember the last couple years he worked, steam was dying out and Diesel was taking over,.....he'd call the roundhouse and ask,...."what engine have you got for me today? Diesel??? Well, mark me OFF,.....those darn things give me a headache!" Working day switch engine jobs, he'd sometimes take me with him,....I sure loved it! With my Dad and Grandfather both railroaders, I guess it was inevitable that I'd end up with RR in my blood too! (Two of my 4 sons are RR managers too!) Guess it all started with my Great Grandfather in England who was a conductor on the Lancashire & Yorkshire, then Grandfather on the Soo Line, Dad on the IHB in Chicago, me with 12 years on the CMStP&P (Milwaukee Road), then 22 more years on the UPRR, and now two sons as managers on the UPRR. Five (5) generations of RR in our family! And to keep this Model "T" Ford related, "Pa" Wadsworth (the Soo Line engineer) used to own and drive Model "T's as a young man!
Sorry for the "reminiscing", but you guys got me started, and with 5 generations or RR, like Dave said,...."it's in the blood!"......harold
Harold S,
I don't care how many times you double post. I always enjoy reading your postings.
I also like steam RR thread drifts. But that is me.
And Warren H's videos are fun to just chill out, and pretend for a moment that I am behind the wheel of my T!
Dave, Harold & Wayne, Thanks for your posts and sharing your stories about the Great Steam Trains of years past. I guess that Steam engines are all in our blood. As a very young boy I grow up across the tracks listening to Stream engines and trains. I think about that old Gogi Grant song "The Wayward Wind" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SaeWh3h8Fg and think that it's about me and my traveling ways.
Happy motoring, Warren
Dave, Harold & Wayne, Thanks for your posts and sharing your stories about the Great Steam Trains of years past. I guess that Steam engines are all in our blood. As a very young boy I grow up across the tracks listening to Stream engines and trains. I think about that old Gogi Grant song "The Wayward Wind" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SaeWh3h8Fg and think that it's about me and my traveling ways.
Happy motoring, Warren
ps: Looking at the photo, I think I might have dreamed about Gogi also.
Wayne, I have just added another CNHMTC video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLZ59cyvWp4&feature=youtu.be
double post intended
That looks like your best video yet! Thank you. I needed that.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
I think that I have been sabotaged! This what I get when I click on the video link above.
500 Internal Server Error
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A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.
If you see them, show them this information:
Happy motoring, Warren
Big Boy (from the Denver museum)
My grandson is in the first one. he's a train nut and in his glory !
Locomotive is so big it was almost impossible to get a shot of it all in the museum!
Almost 1.2 million pounds.
Bud, Thanks for posting! Great photo with your grandson, who wouldn't be trilled to be standing on that beautiful & wonderful engine. Oh to be able to hear it running.
Happy motoring, Warren
PS: I think it was 1974 and I was working for ARA who had Steamtown in Bellows Falls, Vermont as an account, anyway the government decided that they could no longer run the steam engine, due to air pollution, and I spent Columbus Day weekend riding from Boston's North Station to Montpelier and back. One of the very best weekends in my whole life