Seen in Print

[HONDO74]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Mangled hand and T-shirt notwithstanding , he doesn't seem like he will have a difficult time finding acceptance and company.

[rogruth]

I sort of thought it would be hard to get your fingers messed up using the phones and stuff like that that so many use today.
Maybe he was just trying to live up to his shirt.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

My first thought about that right hand was that perhaps he had been unwisely trying to unclog a snowblower or lawn mower with his hand, or maybe even a kitchen drain disposal, his not being aware of the history of prohibitions against doing any of that. Or he may have felt he knew better and was going to be immune to being harmed by reaching into such machines.

[rogruth]

Or stopping a cieling fan with his hand to prove he could.

[NJPiney]

Having both raised two boys and been one myself, the list of possibilities is almost endless. I think back to my youth and the fascination of my group of friends with fireworks, and am grateful I have both hands and all fingers. I classify men into two main categories, those who admit to having done dumb things in their youth, and liars. A possible tiny third category might be people who had incredibly boring and even sad childhoods.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Roger, NJPiney, and Rufus, what you've stated makes perfect sense to me (my having been a boy and still working on staying one a little bit, like still playing with trains 'n stuff. )

[HONDO74]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Having both raised two boys and been one myself, the list of possibilities is almost endless. I think back to my youth and the fascination of my group of friends with fireworks, and am grateful I have both hands and all fingers. I classify men into two main categories, those who admit to having done dumb things in their youth, and liars. ...

Your perspective here, and HONDO's "Seemed like a good idea at the time" T-shirt photo, reminded me of an episode (in addition to the almost obligatory times I played with fireworks) in my early adolescence when I climbed this bridge's support structures - to the very top - and crouched-down waiting for a trolley to rumble overhead so I could experience the scariness, as if an amusement park just at the opposite end of this valley, containing four rollercoasters, wasn't enough, which I spent hours on.

[Roy]

I always wondered how he got paid.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I always wondered how he got paid.

The all you can eat smorgasbord pay plan.

[Roy]

...an amusement park just at the opposite end of this valley, containing four rollercoasters...which I spent hours on.

I spent a lot of time at Knott's, and a little at Disneyland. I've always thought that if I built a model railroad, I'd have it centered on an amusement park. Both Knott's and Disneyland had full-size trains running around the park. Did Kennywood Park have such a train?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...an amusement park just at the opposite end of this valley, containing four rollercoasters...which I spent hours on.

I spent a lot of time at Knott's, and a little at Disneyland. I've always thought that if I built a model railroad, I'd have it centered on an amusement park. Both Knott's and Disneyland had full-size trains running around the park. Did Kennywood Park have such a train?

Yes, it did, for quite a long time, though not fullsized; at least, for the duration of my childhood and somewhat beyond. It was designed to look like a Dreyfus, IMO, with a little touch of B&O Cincinnatian, but only ran along the perimeter of the Kiddieland section of the park, entered via the area seen on the left in the top photo here, along the top of a ridge that overlooked the Monongahela River below, with a panorama of the steel mill in Braddock.. It was a leisurely trip that most adults favored and kids seemed to tolerate for a few minutes.

[Roy]

This one? It's cute. I wish it had a tender. It's clearly an amusement park train, and not what I mean by full-size.



Knott's #40, as I remember it. This is what I mean, by full-size. For three foot gauge, anyway: