From 06/09/1985 at Greenville, SC. Sadly, the station has since been razed and replaced with a modern brick building, and there is now a fence and warning signs to discourage loitering. The white stuff isn't snow, but trash.
One thing you can usually count on in Texas, when you have to feed a mess of hungry folks, you cater a BBQ meal. UP just parked our train on the Sunset mainline in Flatonia and ushered us off to a covered pavilion with plenty to eat. November 17, 2006. Railroad Safety Awareness Special train.
Just like in ye olde daze when one hopped off the train and into the Harvey House for some vittles. Looks yummy. Even cooler still, 4141 on the point!
There's a cool/odd piece of equipment. I'm looking at the pedal-spring-brake arrangement - ingenious (though it needs duct tape to be in the Red Green genius league) mechanism. Pushing down spreads the brake arms/shoes and applies the brakes. If the Indian were replaced with a Harley, would be rider be called a... "hogger"?
I don't see a kick-starter. Did Indian have theirs on the right side? Or was it direct drive...push until it started, then hop on VERY quickly?
A caboose with neon beer signs. Says Lakepoint Railroad on the side. Here you see that lines entire roster and all trackage Behind the building is the CSX mainline. - Emerson GA - Jan. 2022
That's the luxury version. My great grandfather was an agent and rode one of these between depots: Doug
Oh, yes! That one really worked one's upper body... now work off those carbs!! My photo, Exporail, 2009.
Me riding one of those that I helped restore. I had to fabricate new lever assembly pieces on my wood lathe and the pivot bearing brackets for the levers out of steel.
C'mon Russell, we need a video showing you actually pumping iron. Your prissy clean white "uniform" suggests you may be "management".
Wow, Ken -- that's really cool. You should be proud that your craftsmanship brought it back to life. It looks great!
Sorry, no such video exists that I know of. There is this one that I took of another guy. There is no conductivity between the rails on the velocipede so he really did not set off the crossing lights. That was a switch job working a parallel track on the other side of the warehouse in the background.
So then, once you're rolling, if you relax and stop pulling (and pushing?) on the hand grips, do they continue to oscillate back and forth? I can't quite see on the video.
Yeah, no coasting like on a bicycle. Everything is solid geared together so the levers and foot bars keep moving. But that helps in braking. Just apply resistance to the levers and foot bars. There is a crude lever with a wood block against the rear wheel that can be used to brake as well.
Here I am with my usual management attire hitching a ride with one of my minions. His cloths are a bit more shabby.
So, you're moving along the track, completely beat from operating the dang thing, and a train approaches. Now, on top of being totally exhausted, you have to wrestle it off the track! Railroading HAD to have been fun, in those days. Doug
