North Carolina Transportation Museum

Nice photos, Bill.  It was interesting to see the museum shown in such detail, especially the photos of other than rolling stock.

Bill, did you walk across the street and visit the "Little Choo Choo Shop"?

Ron (formally of Youngstown, Boardman, Austintown, and Berlin Center)

That's a great little shop.  Made the mistake of taking my grandson there after he rode in the Cab of the Southern F-7 Diesel - he wanted EVERYTHING in that place!  Fortunately for me, he was more than happy with a copy of the new Lionel Catalog.

Hot,

One of the photos on the NCTM website, of the interior of the roundhouse, shows a slant nosed ACL E unit.

ChipR 

We saw ACL 'The Champion' there several years ago. Don't remember the cab number however...

Ron, I did get to visit the "Little Choo Choo Shop". Nice selection of O, HO, and N trains and accessories. Also books and magazines.

Bill unfortunately the Little Choo Choo Shop is a shadow of itself.  This pic is from a few years back when the economy was strong and toy train sale good.  The selves were slam packed.  And for every item on the selves there were more back in stock.  The display cases were full of steam engines.  There were boxes on the floor.

The way it was!  When times were good.

Next guy that goes down there, go by #1 stall in the Roundhouse and pat the eccentric rod of that Seaboard 544, the Russian Decapod, and give her my regards.

I paced her many a mile when she was Gainesville Midland 206, and one of my favorite photos is me in her cab.

EdKing

Ed your wish ... .

Thanks!

I can tell you that she earned her retirement.  I've paced her when you couldn't see those eccentric rods - nothing but a blur.  She doesn't owe anybody ANYTHING.

EdKing

Ed,

You should contact the museum and tell them about the times you spent running 206.

It would really be good to hear some stories from someone that operated that locomotive.

Also the former RailDay is now called Transportation in Motion which is this weekend.

Here's a link from the Charlotte Observer today :

http://www.charlotteobserver.c...s-the-carolinas.html

Thanks, Sean, but I didn't run her.  I was just one of a bunch of guys who littered the highway with film boxes.  Most of 'em got better photos than I did, and a couple of them got darn good audio recordings.

Bill Sellers, Paul Merriman, Bob Soule, Bill Bryan, Gus Whitfield, Bob Greene - I know I've left out several, and the only one of the above that I know is still living is Bob Greene and he didn't run her either.  It's been fifty five  years since I've seen or heard anything from Whitfield.  Bill Bryan had a son who was about 2 or 3 years old then and is now a 1 1/2 inch scale live steamer in north Georgia and has become as good a friend as his Daddy was. 

I did get to handle the 209 a little, but never the 206.

But thanks for asking!

EdKing