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Oh yeah. I had forgotten you had that little "Grasshopper" engine. It amazes me that something just a little over the size of a Shop Vac can haul it's self and several cars of people about. I figure the machine would also be fun to watch in action.
You're working your way up to 12 inches-to-the-foot scale, aren't you?
i wish I was. sorry to dissapoint, but the grasshopper isn't mine. it belongs to someone i met online, steamboat bill, i think he goes by, on the live steam forums, who invited me to come see it, at the spring meet of our local live steam club. i think it was about four or five years ago. it is the best picture i have of myself though. if i had a place to build something, and a way to haul it to the track, it would be something like the solar/battery engine in my pictures.
You look cool. ^ 3 ^
Also, quite determined, and concentrating on train stuff. Good good!
Also, quite determined, and concentrating on train stuff. Good good!
there's something about anything that runs on some kind of a guide/track;
trains, monorails, cable cars, what have you, that i seem to find especially gratifying. even just to watch and look at.
and especially if they're "just big enough", or even smaller.
imagine how amazing it must have been, the first time someone built something that could travel a respectable distance, under its own power.
trains, monorails, cable cars, what have you, that i seem to find especially gratifying. even just to watch and look at.
and especially if they're "just big enough", or even smaller.
imagine how amazing it must have been, the first time someone built something that could travel a respectable distance, under its own power.
Yes every thing hand made .
Love very old technology knowing how hard it was to come by every once and awhile I get to see a steem tractor.
Was way cool.
My friend has a garden train he works with light rail as a track maintainer he loves trains.
Love very old technology knowing how hard it was to come by every once and awhile I get to see a steem tractor.
Was way cool.
My friend has a garden train he works with light rail as a track maintainer he loves trains.
um serious question, do you think if there is an admiration for trains, it is in the metaphorical sense too, like "trains of thought"? Are you predisposed to those?
for me, it is about the fascination of technologies that are at least potentially, the most harmonious with nature also.
the 'trains of thought' thing, is pretty much completely seperate.
(granted i generally fallow, ask yourself the next question)
i grew up with trains for one thing, my dad having been telegrapher/towerman/clerk for railroads all his life.
when i was less then around a year old, 1949, my dad took me with him to visit a friend of his, who had a single h.o. gauge track,
running all the way around the walls of his basement, with an automatic reverser and one point, and a single trolly model running on it,
this formed my first real fascination in life. all done with mechanical releys, we didn't have the kind of computers we have now then,
and working signal system too.
so really the potential for small and very small form factor trains (anything, two out of three, that runs on some kind of a track,
runs in multiple and or carries passengers), was and remains my 'first love'
nature came second, when i was old enough to walk but not yet in kindergarten, we lived in kind of remote very small towns, taking off on walks by myself.
then came science fiction and from there furry. it all ties together being about art and science, nature and technology,
being brought together in ways that are useful to everyone with as little or no damage to each other as possible.
the 'trains of thought' thing, is pretty much completely seperate.
(granted i generally fallow, ask yourself the next question)
i grew up with trains for one thing, my dad having been telegrapher/towerman/clerk for railroads all his life.
when i was less then around a year old, 1949, my dad took me with him to visit a friend of his, who had a single h.o. gauge track,
running all the way around the walls of his basement, with an automatic reverser and one point, and a single trolly model running on it,
this formed my first real fascination in life. all done with mechanical releys, we didn't have the kind of computers we have now then,
and working signal system too.
so really the potential for small and very small form factor trains (anything, two out of three, that runs on some kind of a track,
runs in multiple and or carries passengers), was and remains my 'first love'
nature came second, when i was old enough to walk but not yet in kindergarten, we lived in kind of remote very small towns, taking off on walks by myself.
then came science fiction and from there furry. it all ties together being about art and science, nature and technology,
being brought together in ways that are useful to everyone with as little or no damage to each other as possible.
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