by Bodwyn Wook
The International Steam Pages lean to the touring side of things and so give a comprehensive picture to-day, of steam railroading all round this funny old post-modern World:
http://www.steam.dial.pipex.com/internat.htm
[Bodwyn Wook all text-rights reserved 30 August 2009]
Archive for August, 2009
The International Steam Pages
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MORE to Learn!
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The Most Detailed Steam Locomotive Diagram I’ve Found Yet!”
by Emmett R Smith
I am just now reading for the first time — and with great enjoyment! — Alfred W Bruce’s 1952 book, The Steam Locomotive In America: It’s Development in the Twentieth Century, W W Norton & Company (1952). Needless to say, as a neophyte railfan [...]
Some Railroad Links To Date
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on August 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
compiled by Emmett R Smith
[Mr Smith swears on a stack of Bibles and the Holy Quran AND the beard of his grandfather's goat that he WILL tidy up the draught-text infra if & when he gets round to it, or anyway by the time Hell is a cinder! He says.... BW]
Here follow the links I have accumulated thus [...]
When Real Learning Begins To Tace Hold
Posted in Muslim and Beyond -- as-Safara lil'Abru on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by A Dervish
[It may be, of course, that here in south-central Minnesota we dwell in the vicinity of some vortex that naturally would influence dreams and dreaming, and the tendency here at least to ceep on going ahead 'in' the 'dream' when once one has awacened (sic) -- BW]
In the floor of the bedroom there is I [...]
Streamliners
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Emmett Smith
Late-modern Depression-era streamlined steam locomotives to our jaded, postmodern, polysexual and rascally, much-drugged decadent eye are, well, just lame looking. Be that as it may, the 1935 Milwaukee Road engines erected to pull the line’s “Hiawatha” passenger train were the first American steam locomotives to be purpose-built streamlined, at the ALCO Schenectady works.
streamliner [...]
As Matters Stand Now: ALL Health Care Throughout The Atlantic West Troubled By Cartels And Service Monopoly
Posted in As Matters Stand Now: on August 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Same Problems Of Managerial & Professionalist Opportunism Infest Both Private & Public Health Care “Systems”
by Emmett Smith
Sean Gabb yesterday in the English Libertarian Alliance web log posted the following analysis. It provides much food for thought — at least to those still capable of that function after all of the absolutely brainless and objectively [...]
http://www.greenfrog.com/
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Green Frog Videos
by Emmett Smith
I enjoy watching this stuff because of course it is the way the World looked when I was a child in the 1950s!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUh-3k2-rEU&feature=related
The above outtakes show too
You ARE Being Watched
Posted in Wooks' Farm on August 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
[re-posted by Bodwyn Wook]
The Crow Paradox
Heard on Morning Edition
Copyright © 2009 National Public Radio®
Crow by Jormungandr91
July 27, 2009 – STEVE INSKEEP, host:
Somebody may be holding a grudge against you right now and you may not even realize it. To tell us about that somebody…we’ve brought in NPR science
Norfolk & Western Railway Steam Locomotive Video Links
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Emmett Smith
Below are a some enjoyable EweBooby links to old footage, apparently some of it originally in 8 mm film, of steam locomotives on the N&W.
N&W Steam In The 1950s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fx03UvpWOI
N&W Y6b doubleheader:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JN3l-pcPVQ&feature=related
Norfolk & Western/Norfolk Southern VCR Tapes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm2VZ-YXGnk&feature=related
[Emmett R Smith
[all text-rights reserved & all other rights revert to holders
[13 August 2009]
Mirror, Mirror on The Wall…
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on August 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
by Emmett R Smith
The debate about which was the “greatest,” the “most powerful” or even just the “biggest” of America’s late-modern articulated steam locomotives shows no sign of reaching a final conclusion. Nor can it be expected to do. The variables are simply too numerous. However, there is another aspect to this matter of what is [...]
