What a great day. Five trainboard members or guests met me at the Danbury Railway Museum this morning. The weather was warm and the friendship warmer. Here is the group. Bill, Tim, Eric, Russ, John I will leave most of the comments to them. I will just say it was a great pleasure hosting them for the day.
Peirce! The feed back is coming in from the guys.......and we all agree.......... YOU DA MAN! YOU DA MAN! YOU ARE DA MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for such a fantastic day and we hope to be getting more photos on here by the end of the week! We had a blast! Everyone, please visit the Danbury RR Museum if you are ever in CT! I have a few photos from the Golden Age Of Trucking Museum I am sending to Russ! That was stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JT
Peirce, Thanks both for posting that photo and taking time out to spend with us. I had a great time. You are very knowledgeable and I learned quite a few things and had fun! I look forward to doing it again in the future as well as posting some of the pics when I get them developed. I too would like to invite anyone on this board to come to this museum. I would be happy to come along to meet you! Here is one pic that came out with my digital:
I finally scanned some of the pics. These were taken by Johnny: #1 The Group shot with the entire RDC in the pic: #2 Our leader, Peirce giving us the history of the RDC. Notice the imaculate interior! On the right are Tim (Lakeshorelimited on other boards) and his father: #3 A nice shot of Steam and early diesel at DRM: Second part of the trip included a ride to the Golden Age of Trucking Museum. I will post those pics later.....(to be continued) Russ
Good shots, John. Thanks, Russ, for posting them. I hope to get more of my pix up over the weekend. [ 19. April 2003, 02:56: Message edited by: Peirce ]
Here are some of Johnny's shots from the Trucking Museum. I will let him explain them, as he is more knowledgeable in trucks than I: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
Thanks Russ! Those trucks were clean enough to eat off of them! The Kenworth is from the early 70's. The Mack B tractor is from '63. The Mack B pumper is as old as I am, a 1957! YAH!!!!!!!!! The Diamond Rio I believe was from the early 70's also. And the Plymouth tractor I bet is pretty rare and I do believe it was a '48! There were more stunning trucks there also. I hope members here can get there someday! It sure makes the imagination run wild with WHITE LINE FEVER!
Thanks for posting that pic of the "Rush-mobile" Peirce! Not in the picture is the car that I was parked behing, an old Chrysler completely covered in carpet!!! That was a riot! Russ
I'll bet you can really "floor it" in that carpet car! I'm not "lying like a rug " either! Takes you the outer fringes! LOL!
Aboard one of the DRM's cabeese, Russ is adjusting his camera for a couple of shots from the cupola... ...while Bill checks out the scene from the high perch on the other side of the aisle.
A tip o' the hat to Pierce! Great tour!!! Thanks again! Nice pictures, thanks for posting them on here, I'll be sure to show them to Dad. Hope to see you guys in Hoboken! Tim
TIMMY!!!!!!!!!!!! You and your Dad make a great team! You'd better bring him along on our next adventure! Welcome Aboard TrainBoard! Russ, you look good up in that cupola!
Welcome to the Trainboard family, Tim. And, I am sure your father is represented through you, so, welcome to him as well.
Looks like you guys had a great time together. glad to see some of the trainboard team meeting together
I've met quite a few TB'ers in person. ED, JP, MIKE K., WARREN, BRIAN, GORDY, RUSS, PEIRCE, TIM and of course my buddy, LONG ISLAND LOUIE......and forgive me if I have left out anyone that I have met in person. They are all "good people" as we say here in New Yawk. [ 27. April 2003, 13:22: Message edited by: Johnny Trains ]
