Posted by greygoat on February 24, 2013 at 10:08:07 from (69.179.11.171):
In Reply to: More Smell Memories posted by Brian G. NY on February 23, 2013 at 18:31:39:
In the 1940's, my Dad, a railroad engineer,would take me into the Roundhouse, full of Steam engines It was a scarrey place! the steam engines growned and rumbeled, just sitting there, it was if they were alive! Sometimes a pressure valve would pop and almost scare the pants off of ya! And, oh, the smells, coal burning, hot oil, hot steam ! In later days, I got a job, in that same CB&Q Roundhouse, and it still smelled the same, even though the Steam engines were gone. 65 years later I still like the smell of a farm steam engine, or Milwaukee Road 261, or a Union Pacific Challanger going through Logan,Iowa at 60 MPH, a few years ago. The sound and the smell were overwhelming. And I think of Milwaukee Road #1 pulling the twin cities Hiawatha at 100 MPH, in 1936, just think how many times per minute those pistons were going back and forth,(Do the math.. 80 inch diameter wheels going 100 MPH)mechanical perfection..made in America..Pride in Workmanship!
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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