Steam engine driver stories

I remember one time when he notices that the steam engine was getting kind of lazy in its pulling of the separator and he comes to the back. The fire is down. You talk about kicking some rear ends; we got straightened out pretty fast. He got busy and chopped up some wood and put it in the firebox and never did he say a word outside the fact that we got our little rear ends kicked. So after that we knew enough that it was better to let it pop off with a full head of steam than to let it get down to, I think it was 70 or 80 pounds.

At that time we were carrying about pounds on the engine. This would have been a hell of a deal, because if the separator stopped running or it throwed the belt off or something while all that straw was going through, it would call for having to get in there and clean it all out by hand. Just the farmers that he was threshing for — just some devilment that they had cooked up for that afternoon.

But, Papa Ed got on to it in time. We had this sticky stuff that you had to take and hold it on the belt while it was running — it makes the belt stay tight and pull better. You had to take and hold it on the belt while it was running. In time we converted to the Rumley Oil Pull, which burned kerosene and was the tractor we had been thoroughly indoctrinated in all the quirks of steam. So the fact is that all this steam technology was put into our brains.

Also the Railroads had steam power and we marveled at the way those steam locomotives could pull those long trains. The Torrid Tunnel! For Whom the Bell Tolls. Courting By Steam Whistle! Bye Bye Steam. From Boy to Engine Driver.

I Could Have Kissed Him! Lilacs and Hyacinths. Chatting About a Choo-Choo. Me Big End. Those Septic Spectres. I sat in my cab on two platform and noticed my signal turned from red to green! Like Like. Like Liked by 1 person. The signalbox soars above the silver rails, Halo,ed in light, glass flashing its eyes, Over sleepers coaches swerve, And the train kicks and giggles,.

Suddenly,,i a deer , oblivion bound, leaps beneath my cleaving wheels, On that sad day,,down the old railway. Then, i realised what had happened,,my mate had climbed round the loco,s framings and made me cream my best undies! Hi me deauties, Steam engines are multi pistoned, a two cylinder loco has a steam engine on one side and another on the other side,!

FROM HUN TO NUN, Hi friends During the second word war,,the whole of Liverpool was blacked out, up the moonlit irish sea, from north France,, flew the Nazi bombers, like a flock of geese, and dropped incendery bombs over the massive railway complex of Garston on the outskirts of Liverpool,, Trudging through this mayhem of fire was a Garston engine driver, going to work at the steam depot there, he was well known for his nervous disposition.

At the time there was talk of german parachutists dropping dressed as nuns. An incendiary bomb set fire to the co-op stables and someone let the terrified horses run loose about the streets,,At the same time a troop of nuns were running past this nervous engine driver! Hi folks, when you step across the footplate of a steam engine, from fireman to engine driver, you are making a mighty leap! Hi There, Modern tractions are instantly mutinous! Dial needles plunge to zero and theres suddenly an eerie silence!

Now, with the old honest and faithful steam engine, she would give you her last gasp! Hi, Folks, An engine driver and his fireman are bound together by invisible shackles and out on the road, this cohesion is mandatory to the safe operation of trains, but sometimes cinders fly!

We,re running late on the eight forty eight, and the regulators open wide, we,re barrelling swift but the steams adrift, and dropping by the stride. To the whistled whine that old swine, in the corner at the wheel, spits a steaming gob at my old clog, that sparkles in the gleam. Elizabeth Puckett. This classic car is a huge part of automotive history with a ton of engineering innovation and technological design. Check out a giant car tomb here. You might also like. Jan 13, Steven Symes.

These cars have been through it all together and after decades of sitting, they might just be ready to touch rubber to the road once more! Jan 13, Elizabeth Puckett. These automotive relics of their time are masterpieces of long since forgotten artists but the cars will live on forever. Next, complete checkout for full access to Motorious. Welcome back!