by cofty 30 Replies latest social current
Cofty, I will tell him. He is pleased beyond belief when his knowledge can compete in the adult world.
He had so many issues when he was little, but we've worked through them and it looks like he's turning out fine.
My philosophy on childrearing is: help them find their passion, support it, and they will thrive!
he might be able to get a real job with a real railroad like CSX when he turns 21.
That would be amazing!
He would love the restoration sheds at York, England.
Oh, I'm sure he would. We'll put the York restoration sheds on our bucket list.
He's managed to extract a promise that when he graduates high school, we'll take him to the UK for a grand railroad tour.
Now, I've just got to figure out how to pay for it!
Thanks a lot for mentioning that.
Now I felt compelled to look up what "blinkers" are on steam engine, and what the difference is between German style and others, and invenstigated the biography of Richard Paul Wagner who designed the blinkers you like.
so now i go into "rivet counter" mode.
those smoke deflectors are actually " Witte" type--whereas "Wagner" type are somewhat larger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_deflectors
sorry--i'll shut up and go home now.
They used to have a club for rail enthusiasts called "the Rail Riders"
It was disbanded in 1991.
@stan,
Thanks for pointing that out. Evidently I didn't pay enough attention to the differences between those two. The Witte type blinkers are much more elegant than the Wagner type btw.
Don't sweat the rivet counter mode; I love details like that and am a bit ashamed I failed to bluff myself into the steam engine lovers society :-D
But during my Sunday afternoon Wikipedia railroad journey I learnt a lot about British railroads, steam engines, blowback (the Flying Scotsman had an incident as recent as 2012, semaphores, etc.
And I had some time to spare: my wife was at the circuit assembly :-p
Oh but now I'm wondering what British blinker design would look like....Wikipedia here I come....
