The river flows...

[cirelaw]

We used to place a coin on the rack and trade coins!

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by cirelaw

We used to place a coin on the rack and trade coins!

Coins were my one brush with the RR Police. They saw me, came to my house, and told my parents. I don't recall my punishment, but I never did it again.

I forgot all about the freight trains! And the freight engines. The passenger trains were streamlined; the freights were boxy and had rails around the engine.

Bill Lyon recalled the train trestle outside Belfast NY. I used to pass under it every time I went into Belfast with my parents (it was a wet town). I think it was the 8th longest, at one time in the '50's. Wonder if someone posted a pic of it???

Yeah! Bunches of them!

[sheepherder]

Remembering the Belfast trestle...In 1965, my dad took me with him to the Belfast Hotel to get beer (we had a cottage at Rushford Lake; the grown-up cottagers would play Euchre and drink beer at night). We had a 1962 Buick Special with the 215ci V-8 & 3-speed manual. For some reason the cases of beer weren't ready, so my dad had a couple beers at the bar. When we finally loaded up a couple cases of Genesee, he told me I'd better drive, he'd had too many and didn't want to get pulled over. I was 15, no license. Uh, yeah, OK dad...What??? We made it back to the cottage. My first driving lesson!

[Kiwi]

Interesting, in NZ the "Big" trains were the KA class.
My Dad was a driver and me and my older brother did get to ride on them (on night runs.)

I checked spec's with the US "Big Boy", wow the Big Boy is 3 times the size of the KA and (to a little boy) the KA's were huge

Big Boy 762,000 lbs
KA 208,320 lbs