Welsh Incident
The title to today's piece refers to a poem by Robert Graves which might make you laugh if you haven't read it. But I've been inspired to put some narrow gauge in by the latest piece on Eddie's railroad site - if you haven't see it yet look here and the link is also on the right of the page ...
By the way of anyone knows of other good blogs like this let me know, I'd like to add the links.
I think that the Talyllyn was the first (but maybe the second?) of the railway rescue projects back in the early 1950's. And this is their most famous locomotive - 'Dolgoch'. It's an amazing little line hidden in the hills of mid-Wales. If you haven't been - why not? There are loads of interesting railways around there, some of which will feature here soon.
Keeping Dolgoch company is my daughter Julia and her dog Darcy. I don't think Darcy is 'into trains', especially ones whose safety valves suddenly 'lift' without warning or that sound their whistles in the vicinity of large black dogs ...
posted by Iain @ 3:26 AM
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1 Comments:
Hello again Lane.
Thank You for that nice comment about Me inspiring you to show some narrow guage equipment. Your Daughter is very pretty, and here dog is definately a great friend.
Its funny that You should mention that You weren't certain if the dog is a railfan. At the Hesston Steam Museum in Indianna...from 1980 to 1995, they had a very friendly black labrador retriever
named "Smokey" who actually rode on the Museums trains. It was cute.
They trained him as a puppy, and He
really seamed to enjoy it. He rode the large narrow guage train as well as the 14 inch one as well.
I have a few photographs of "Smokey" when he was in this world. He is burried on the museum property. He was a great dog who loved children and basically had it made with all that land to romp on at will. I will post a future photo or two of Smokey the Labrador.
Thank You.
Eddie from Chicago
http://eddiesrailroad.blogspot.com
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