KW & CJ Ride the Rails

Tour guide wake up, wake up.  Ok everyone out of the fart sack.  KW, why are you up so early?  It's time to ride the Trains.  Hurry up or the train will leave the station without us.

KW, what are you doing now.  Kemosabe, my name is Tonto.  Ok, Tonto, what are you doing?  Kemosabe,  Tonto listening to see when the train is coming down the track.  Hey wait, I feel a song coming on.  Oh brother, I just can't wait.  Ok tour guide, I mean Kemosabe here goes.  I hear that train a comin, it's rollin round the bend.  KW, tour guide it's Tonto.  Ok Tonto, just stop there.  It's already a song by Johnny Cash.


This is our train, ole No. 26.


Tour guide boarding the train.


Hey tour guide, we are ready to roll.


You know Cj, there's not much to look at.


Hey tour, I heard the Conductor say that is the outhouse.  I don't think he said outhouse KW, it's the Train workman's house.


Hey tour guide, don't take our picture.  CJ & I are riding the rails as hobo's.


CJ, look, Mrs. tour guide is a Hobo too.


Mrs. tour guide on the little red caboose.


Hey tour guide, look at all that luggage, Mrs. tour guide must have packed them.


The mail car.


KW & CJ sorting mail.


Oh man, I thought we were finished.  Look at all those mail bags.


Electric City Trolley Museum.


Hey tour guide, do we get to ride that trolley too?  Yes KW, two trains in one day.  Oh wow, that's really cool.  I have never been on a trolley before.


Mrs. tour guide boarding the Trolley.


Ok, we are ready.  How does this thing run?  I don't see any steam or smell any diesel fuel.  KW, it runs on electricity.  Well, isn't that special.  That will take an awful long extension cord.  KW, it is propelled by onboard electric motors and requires a trolley pole to draw power from overhead wire.


Getting our tickets punched by the conductor.


Riding under a new bridge at Nay Aug Gorge.


Going thru a mile long tunnel.


The gang riding the trolley.


The tour guide must be tied.


Tour guide woke up in time to have his picture taken with the engineer.


The Baseball Trolley.


When there was a day game, they hung this sign.  When it was a Night game they turned the sign around.


Glass Insulators.


Trolley No.651.


Tour guide making a souvenir penny.


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PS:

Glass insulators were first produced in the 1850's for use with telegraph lines.  As technology developed insulators were needed for telephone lines, electric power lines, and other applications.  In the mid 1960's a few people began collecting these antique glass insulators.  Today there are over 3000 insulator collectors.

Cooperstown Part two - Steamtown NHS

KW, time to hit the road.  OH brother, more driving, that is soooooo boring.  Just get in the Jeep.  OK, but I'm ridding up front and taking boring pictures to post on the blog.


Hey tour guide, look at that truck, the rear door is opening up.  Oh man, maybe someone is going to jump out like in the movies.  Hey,  maybe this is a movie and I'm in it.  KW, just take more boring pictures.


WOW KW, you called me up here to watch you take boring pictures.  Can I go back to my seat now?  KW, you really are a goober.


Hey Mrs. tour guide, it's an Italian tomato truck.


Oh wow, that's 'Prime Times truck".  KW, what are you talking about.  Well look, it says Dion on the back.


Hey tour guide, look we are coming into PA.  Give me the phone.  No, that's ok, i'll take it.  KW, stop trying to take the phone out of my hand.  Now look, we missed half the welcome sign.


Cooperstown Part Two:

Hey tour guide, who are theses old guys?     
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Steamtown National Historic Site:

Yipeee, we get to stamp.


Mrs. tour guide stamping.


Hey tour guide, we found a train we can ride.


Hey tour guide, we are over here on this Red Caboose.


You want us to do what?


  





Restored Lackawanna Caboose.


The ole 790 Steam locomotive.


Restored diesel locomotive.


Steel Welder.


Wheel Lathe.


Track heading to the Roundhouse.


Part of the Roundhouse.




Train being completely restored.


I think the tour guide is excited about this.


MmmmWellll, where have we seen this before.


Two pictures from supper tonight at Texas Roadhouse.

Mrs. tour guide smelling horseradish.


Tour guide loves this stuff.


TTFN:

PS:

Steamtown NHS:
Steamtown National Historic Site is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the site of the former  Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad (DL&W).  The museum is built around a working turntable and a roundhouse that are largely replications of the original DL&W facilities: the roundhouse, for example, was reconstructed form remnants of a 1932 structure.  The site also features several original outbuildings dated between 1899 and 1902.  All the buildings on the site are listed with the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Yard-Dickson Manufacturing CO. Site.