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Chasing The Train

7/7/2016

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I love the Steam Locomotives!  They are alive.  You can hear them breathe and snort, roar and rumble!
Strassburg Railroad is a short ride from where I live.  Short yes, but it will take you back to yesteryear.  

This may be to much personal information for this blog; but when I was just a young lad, perhaps
four years old,  it was told my father drove me real close to the tracks  when a fast moving steam train 
went by.   Well I must have thought it a monster.  The roar, the steam ,the clanging of the bell, the
screaming whistle, for I peed my pants.  I guess at that moment I was drawn to the steam locomotives.
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My father would take me to Griffith Park Live Steamers often.  There I could climb on the locomotives, and cars.  Then go watch the wonderfully crafted locomotives built by hand.  Truly a labor of love. ​  Most of these as you can see below, you could ride on. 
Images from the Griffith Park Live Steam website.
For those of you in Southern California,  Take a ride  to Los Angeles Live Steamers.  Easy to get to, just 
off the 134, in Burbank.

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Strassburg Railroad is a great
place to visit year round.

Of course it helps to have a sidecar - you won't fall down
​in the snow and ice!

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 Strasburg Railroad is located in the town of
Strasburg; which in turn is just outside Lancaster, PA.  Here is a link to the Railroad:
http://www.strasburgrailroad.com
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Over the years I have ridden to Durango to ride the DRGRR.  My first ride on this train was when I was about ten years old.  My father rode it back in 1941 when it was still a work train.  The train was moving sheep from  Durango to Silverton.  Someday I will convert the 16mm film he shot on that trip. The film runs about twelve  minutes.  Couple of years ago rode to do a shoot on the Western Maryland Railroad.
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