Filled with high quality pictures, Steam’s Camelot by Jim Wrinn is one of my favorite books of all time. Typically I won’t reread books once I’ve read them, but this is a book I’ve referred to time and time again. The book tells the complete story of the Southern and Norfolk Southern steam program, through [...]
Last week I was lamenting the end of the Norfolk Southern steam excursion program. Until the day NS restarts the program, I will be left to my n-scale model railroad. Here’s a shot of Norfolk and Western 4-8-4 Class J 611 and Southern 2-8-0 #722. In addition to N scale, the N&W J class #611 [...]
Reading about the A1 Tornado steam locomotive in England makes me long for the days of the Norfolk Southern steam excursion program in the U.S. I really miss scenes like this one of Norfolk & Western Class J number 611 from 1994, the last year of the NS steam operations program: My wife was surprised [...]
Loren Feldman runs a site called 1938media where he produces blunt, entertaining videos. He’s a hi-tech video blogger, but he does not drink the social media kool-aid. Click here to see his recent video on Facebook. “I don’t get it” “It’s a nightmare, that site” “I don’t understand Facebook.” Related: Low Tech Times Facebook Posts [...]
<A href=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fbellaonlmidat-20%2F8005%2F8ce757fe-b631-47f1-83ea-771d973283b0&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.com Widgets</A> Yesterday, I reviewed the SCC radial chains I bought for my car. Today I’ll discuss traction for your feet. My wife bought us each a pair of Yaktrax Pro Traction Cleats and we had a couple of opportunities to test them out after some snow on Saturday night and again Monday morning. [...]