AC> It is hard to understand your railfan language, for us foreigners.
AC> This is an International echo and a lot of us gringoes, feel
AC> intimidated about the narrow content almost entirely N.A. locos!!
DD>Yeah, let's start a movement to get a Beyer-Garrett for the Rio Grande 
narrow
DD>gauge. :-)
AC> Come on David, write something and enrich my boring old age. You
AC> must have some good stories I want to hear!!
Well, I was the brakeman on an antique train at a museum once. The
consist was a 1930's copy of an 1830's loco, the John Bull, pulling an
1860's side-porch combine. (Combination passenger car and baggage,
with the baggage compartment offset & an external walkway down one
side of it.) We were gingerly moving back and forth on one edge of the
Museum's yard. The engineer whistled for brakes, then did it again.
When we stopped, it turned out that we had hit a (parked) automobile.
We had shoved it sideways, and did considerable damage to the hood and
left fender. The engine had minor scratches on the painted woodwork,
and the engineer's step was bent backwards a little. (Easy to fix.)
The fool that was driving the car had parked facing the track, with
his front wheels almost touching the rail. He insisted that there had
not been a train coming when he parked there.
BTW, the original John Bull is in the Smithsonian Museum in
Washington. *Both* locos run well. That's right, they've had
the original out for a spin on her 150th aniversary -
the oldest loco in the world still runs!  :)
Reggie Arford
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