[AT] Old trains

[David Bruce]

I remember that one also but I was already awake <g>.
David
NW NC

charliehill wrote:
> The down grade braking didn't bother me near as bad as the up hill pull 
> going out of town.  I've been told that grade along Hillsboro street is one 
> of the steepest rail grades on the east coast.  The trains typically had 4 
> engines pulling and 2 pushing.   I think that west bound freight went out 
> about 3AM (sometime in the middle of the night).  Just about the time we'd 
> all get back to sleep the two pusher engines would wake us back up going 
> back to the yard.  It didn't help that every kid in the dorm (about 2000 or 
> so) would yell at the train at the top of their lungs.
>
> 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 9:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Old trains
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>
>   
>> I spent my 4 years in one of the highrise towers and watching RFD fight
>> a fire along the right of way about  30 feet from my dorm was
>> "interesting" to say the least. the least.  That 2:30AM (or so east
>> bound train always woke me up that first year. Headed down the grade to
>> the station with all the cars banging against the car couplings as the
>> brakes were engaged.  It was quite a bit different from my home county
>> which still has no railroad track at all.
>>
>> The balloon fest had gone on for several nights and after a close call
>> with the roof of our dorm my roommate and I decided to skip the last
>> lift off - turned out to be a wise idea.  He was the stereotypical
>> "preacher's kid" and always into some sort of mischief.
>>
>> David
>> NW NC
>>
>>
>> charliehill wrote:
>>     
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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