[AT] Old trains

[charliehill]

David, his might have been heading for the train also as you know but most 
others don't the railroad track is just a few yards past those dorms as you 
walk from the intermural fields.

As for those balloons, I had never seen those small, light weight hot air 
balloons until just this weekend.  On some news program they were showing a 
world record attempt in Taiwan or somewhere.   The sky was full of those 
things.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 3:16 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Old trains


> At the risk of adding to the boredom -
>
> During my time at dear old MOO U (mid to late 70's) I lived on central
> campus.  My freshman year a suitemate brought his RC plane out for a run
> one day.
> We went to the intermural fields and he launched the plane.  Lost
> communication and the plane was last seen heading back toward the
> dorms.  We found the remains between Owen and Turlington.  It had flown
> directly into a metal light pole and was totally demolished. Later in
> the year he was making hot air balloons from dry cleaning bags with an
> aluminum pie plate suspended below to contain alcohol soaked cotton
> balls.  He would light the cotton balls and that provided the hot air.
> All was well and good until one of the balloons landed on the roof of
> the bookstore.  The Raleigh fire department responded.  Nothing bad
> happened - except to him.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
> charliehill wrote:
>> Al, I'm not sure if I've told this on the list before or not but I'll 
>> risk
>> boring everyone with it one more time.
>>
>>
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