[AT] Old trains, now NC State

[Gene Waugh]

Geez, guys, you keep giving me flashbacks to the time Dad (he was with 
the college from about 1948 - 1957) was Head of the Animal Husbandry 
Dept at NC State---We lived out of town a ways on a couple acres, did 
2nd grade - part of the 6th grade in Apex.  Based on Google Maps, THINGS 
HAVE CHANGED a little!

Gene
Elgin, Illinois USA


David Bruce wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> 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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