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Postby rogruth » Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:35 pm

Mitch,
In later years a class A was an 0-4-0 switcher.But I think the class A referenced in the article is something else.A date for this event would help.

Prior to 1895[I think],a class A was a 4-4-0.Westinghouse air brakes and water scoops were first used on these locos.
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Postby 2railjon » Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:39 pm

In honor of Labor Day, I've put on my favorite Irish CD, opened a pint of Guinness, and salute all my Irish-American Brothers who helped build this country.
" The Call Of The Celts"
On the shortest day of the year, at the peak of winter solstice, sunlight pours through a carefully hewn opening in the domed tomb of tribal kings, bathing it in a blinding brightness for seventeen minutes. Then, for the rest of the year no light enters the burial chamber.
sometimes called the "Cathedral of the Megalithil," the site is Newgrange, a great passage-grave nestled within the valley of River Boyne, in present day County Meath, Ireland. It is nearly a thousand years older then Stonehenge, predates the birth of Christ by about three thousand years, and was finished hundreds of years before the first pyramid ever shot skyward.
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Postby Tramp » Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:55 pm

Jon, Celts also built sweat lodges and ate certain mushrooms to understand nature with special intensity. Their culture mirrored Native American in many ways. They invented beer, of course. Actually, I believe it was the Egyptians who did. Batteries and beer. Some say man changed from a nomad to settler because he needed to wait for the beer to brew, though women were probably the brewsters.

That place you mentioned has always interested me. It's small but amazing. It didn't need to be a damn cathedral.
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Postby POSSUMBELLY » Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:29 pm

And remember St. Brendan was here a thousand years before Columbus !

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Postby Daisy » Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:03 pm

There's a possumbelly in the jungle!

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Postby webenda » Sun Aug 31, 2008 7:01 pm

Possumbelly, stop balancing those Miller beer bottles on your gut and let's go over to Gomer's to celebrate the return of Jim Perrine! Jim, can you make it? I'm buying first round.
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Postby laz57 » Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:26 pm

As far as the invention of beer goes, yes it was the Egyptians who invented it. But the intriguing thing about the Mayflower coming to AMERICA was that they were suppose to land in about Virginia and as the story goes they landed in MASSechuttes on PLYMOUTH ROCK because they had ran out of BEER. I guesss they had to make some? Probably had a guy named SAM ADAMS on board? Now I need another OL MIL.
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Postby hev52 » Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:59 pm

Jim.....................

I'm gonna be at the Cherry Lane crossing around 1:30 pm. That's where the train leaves the picnic grove coming west.. The corn field maze is on the other side of the road.



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Postby jperrine » Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:01 pm

Hev:

Ok i know where that is. But hows the parking for there right now this time of year. i usually park right by the Cherry Hill station but the corn maze is usually not open then. But i will try to make it. I will be in my Blue Jeep Cherokee classic.

Wayne...pour me a Yuengling Black and Tan please.

Jim

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Postby webenda » Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:48 pm

You got it Jim.

Enjoy your trip. Looks like sunny weather forecast for your area tomorrow. If you see Jim the Tank Engine there say hello for me.
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Postby jperrine » Mon Sep 01, 2008 4:05 am

Wayne:

Ok if I see Jim the tank engine I will say hello and try to get a picture of him.

Jim

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Postby Tramp » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:14 am

Jim, don't forget to get a photo of you and Hev together to show the other hobos. Enjoy your day.
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Postby 2railjon » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:48 am

Jim, I wish I could be up there with you guys to hoist a black and tan!!
Trust me, you can't miss Hev. Just be on the lookout for the biggest, meanest, ugliest dude there!!! :lol: Even with me weighing in at a solid 225, Hev makes me look like a string bean!!! :lol: :lol: :wink:
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Postby jperrine » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:44 am

Tramp:

Thanks...will try to do so.

Jim

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Postby jperrine » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:46 am

Jon:

Thanks that will help...You will probably be busy wil the hurricane...Try to be safe.

Jim


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