Love the photo, Mac. We old stations like that on Long Island but I never thought about the Pocono's as having them.
Matt has a full set of those really large Lionel trains. They are his from his childhood. For some reason we never set them up. Maybe because we had girls? Well, if one day we have grandsons we will have something to play with them.
A second photo … an abandoned railway, which fortunately, is now part of a nature trail that goes for miles through a forested area in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Levi, his dad and his sister are over today. When he saw the picture, he said that it had to be a super good engine (not like the diesel engines associated with Thomas who are usually bad guys) because it took people on trips to see pretty stuff (and never gave a hard time to steamies).
The Reverend W. W. Awdrey, who wrote the original Thomas the Train books, was active at the time when steam trains were being replaced by diesels and he was a traditionalist. Since he, like any writer of fiction, needed conflict in order to be successful; he made the diesel engines the bad guys.
Loved the second picture Mac. We have a large number of abandoned railroad lines in Michigan, mostly abandoned when semi trucks started carrying most of the freight. Many of them have been converted to either hiking paths or bicycle trails Since they usually were built away from the road network, they give a beautiful view of natural surroundings. All that is really needed to turn an old railway into a bike path is to lay asphalt between the rails (assuming that the rails weren't salvaged by the railroad). A hiking trail requires that the rails and ties be removed, the ballast then becoming the trail. They have the advantage that they have only a minimally invasive effect on the natural landscape, while ensuring that, even if you don't know how to read a compass, you won't get lost if you stay on the trail. This really matters on some of them, such as the hiking trail up by Pictured Rock in the Northern Upper Peninsula. If you got lost up there, you would be likely to stay lost for quite a while.
The town of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania in the Pocono Mountains is the scene location.
Very nice pic!
RIO,
Great to see you!
Love the photo, Mac. We old stations like that on Long Island but I never thought about the Pocono's as having them.
Matt has a full set of those really large Lionel trains. They are his from his childhood. For some reason we never set them up. Maybe because we had girls? Well, if one day we have grandsons we will have something to play with them.
A second photo … an abandoned railway, which fortunately, is now part of a nature trail that goes for miles through a forested area in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Levi, his dad and his sister are over today. When he saw the picture, he said that it had to be a super good engine (not like the diesel engines associated with Thomas who are usually bad guys) because it took people on trips to see pretty stuff (and never gave a hard time to steamies).
The Reverend W. W. Awdrey, who wrote the original Thomas the Train books, was active at the time when steam trains were being replaced by diesels and he was a traditionalist. Since he, like any writer of fiction, needed conflict in order to be successful; he made the diesel engines the bad guys.
Loved the second picture Mac. We have a large number of abandoned railroad lines in Michigan, mostly abandoned when semi trucks started carrying most of the freight. Many of them have been converted to either hiking paths or bicycle trails Since they usually were built away from the road network, they give a beautiful view of natural surroundings. All that is really needed to turn an old railway into a bike path is to lay asphalt between the rails (assuming that the rails weren't salvaged by the railroad). A hiking trail requires that the rails and ties be removed, the ballast then becoming the trail. They have the advantage that they have only a minimally invasive effect on the natural landscape, while ensuring that, even if you don't know how to read a compass, you won't get lost if you stay on the trail. This really matters on some of them, such as the hiking trail up by Pictured Rock in the Northern Upper Peninsula. If you got lost up there, you would be likely to stay lost for quite a while.