Hey, Tramp, sorry just got in. Yes, each image SHOULD link to some page capture jpegs; I just noticed it is not working and will see if my web guy can find out what has happened. There are approximately 220 images in the book, on 128 pages (and, as P&R Pete pointed out, my ugly mug on the final page). Most are black & white; eight pages of streamliners are in color. Send me your email, and I'll be glad to forward a couple of the page jegs to you so you can see them.
I did the design, scans and editing here at home, then self published the book last March. The next project (on early fuel funny car drag racing) will probably go to one of the automotive houses. I am so swamped with magazine edit right now that I don't have time to devote to doing another 200-250 page book (just picked up a layout photo gig with Classic Toy Trains in fact). The printing was done by Sabre Printers here in Johnson City TN; my print-process background made it possible for me to go in and make sure we had nice reproduction quality as the presses were running. Frankly, I could not have been happier; they shrink-wrapped and boxed the whole run for me. Since they also have a publishing / distribution house (Overmountain Press), I got some additional help with book store distribution in the process.
The server is secure, so you can order right through there unless you want to send me a check. Paypal works as well through the server. Just tell me it's Tramp either in an email or on the payment note and I'll sign the book to you. Thanks
Hobo Jungle
Pete, here is the link to Maurer's auction.
http://www.maurerail.com/asp/auction.asp
Go to Event Listings, and most coming ones will have a lot list. My dad bought prewar up there years ago, but I have a greater affection of vintage paper, so I check out the railroadiana auctions. I may make a couple of phone bids prior to the auction on March 5th. It doesn't look like there is a lot of hardware this time, but man there are a lot of books...
BTW, I've got a very nice original P&R Rwy. Co. Loco. Dept. lantern (Dietz Vesta tall etched globe)here. Got any Monon/Nickel Plate/Clinchfield hardware to trade...
http://www.maurerail.com/asp/auction.asp
Go to Event Listings, and most coming ones will have a lot list. My dad bought prewar up there years ago, but I have a greater affection of vintage paper, so I check out the railroadiana auctions. I may make a couple of phone bids prior to the auction on March 5th. It doesn't look like there is a lot of hardware this time, but man there are a lot of books...
BTW, I've got a very nice original P&R Rwy. Co. Loco. Dept. lantern (Dietz Vesta tall etched globe)here. Got any Monon/Nickel Plate/Clinchfield hardware to trade...
Flirtin' with disaster...
Ghosts in woods. I had the great fortune to have stumbled across this webpage, and would like to share it with you all. The pictures are fantastic,(you can click on them to enlarge full screen), as well as the writing. It should be a great help to anyone into logging scenes and equipment used back then. I'm thrilled the area has been preserved and look forward to checking it out in person. The pictures take a bit to download if you're using dial up like me, but it's worth the wait. Hope you enjoy. Jon
http://www.pernet.net/~james1/AOTT/LONGLEAF/
http://www.pernet.net/~james1/AOTT/LONGLEAF/
Running that red block Charlie.
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P&R Pete
Oh fer cryin' out loud, a steam locomotive abandoned to the woods, whole and entire! But what a great museum that will make.
In Mifflinburg Pa, there is a buggy works that was abandoned maybe some what? 80 years ago, they just closed up shop one day and never opened up again, like they'd been carried off by aliens. How it got forgotten, I'll never understand, but when the town realized what it had...!
It's now a museum, buggys half done, tools still lying on the tables, all the belts and pulleys still in place. An awesome museum, and not dissimilar to what they have with your site, Jon.
Very cool! Like finding a Mayan temple in the jungle.
In Mifflinburg Pa, there is a buggy works that was abandoned maybe some what? 80 years ago, they just closed up shop one day and never opened up again, like they'd been carried off by aliens. How it got forgotten, I'll never understand, but when the town realized what it had...!
It's now a museum, buggys half done, tools still lying on the tables, all the belts and pulleys still in place. An awesome museum, and not dissimilar to what they have with your site, Jon.
Very cool! Like finding a Mayan temple in the jungle.
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San Diegan
Are old locomotives driven to a graveyard to die? Or are parts pillaged from the dying engine only to be cast away at different times after wearing to uselessness in their secondary enterprise? It all seems kind of sad.
Pssst: Daisy! Now I know where there's an Allis Chamlers horizontal Corliss valve engine that you can use! I'll meet you inside the turbine room between the Boilerhouse and Sawmill. If you're a good girl, I'll let you see the Clyde Skidding Machine.
San
Pssst: Daisy! Now I know where there's an Allis Chamlers horizontal Corliss valve engine that you can use! I'll meet you inside the turbine room between the Boilerhouse and Sawmill. If you're a good girl, I'll let you see the Clyde Skidding Machine.
San
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Daisy at the switch - BRUTAL, I tell ya, brutal! The East Broad Top's set-up over in Orbisonia. PA still has the old machine shop preserved, untouched since 1957. Pete, there is also a belt-driven shop locked up in Christiana, Pa, right of Rt. 30 near Strasburg, complete with a original stone bridge from the 1830s single-track PRR main line right behind the building. The guy who owns the depot there had a Lionel set-up he would open to the public at Christmas time.
Flirtin' with disaster...
highrailjon-
Awesome site about Longleaf! Thanks. So that place is about a 1hr and 20 minutes ( maybe less since its all desolate highway from Leesville to Alexandria) from me. I'm DEFINATELY gonna check it out.
Awesome site about Longleaf! Thanks. So that place is about a 1hr and 20 minutes ( maybe less since its all desolate highway from Leesville to Alexandria) from me. I'm DEFINATELY gonna check it out.
Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
Peter: I wouldn't say I've been 'missing' it Bob.
Peter: I wouldn't say I've been 'missing' it Bob.
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San Diegan
Dazzzie! I'm headed north for the weekend to see my little prince and grab a couple slices of toast!! 
Here's one for all you 'bo's!!! Marty Robbin's song from the movie "Emporor Of The North"
Marty Robbins
A Man And A Train lyrics
A man and a train, a train and a man
They both tried to run as far
And as fast as they can
But a man's not a train and a train's not a man
A man can do things that a train never can
Goin' up a mountain even half way to the top
The minute that a train runs out of steam it's gotta stop
But it's a different story when a man runs out of steam
He still can go a long, long way
On nothin' but a dream
Goin' cross the country when a train runs out of track
It has to stop and turn around and then start headin' back
But many miles from nowhere out where all the tracks are gone
A man who's got himself a dream
Can still keep goin' on
So don't try to stop me
Don't try to stop me cause nobody can
I've got a dream, a beautiful dream and that makes me a man
No don't try to stop me
Don't try to stop me cause nobody can
I've got a dream, a beautiful dream and that makes me
Makes me a man
Here's one for all you 'bo's!!! Marty Robbin's song from the movie "Emporor Of The North"
Marty Robbins
A Man And A Train lyrics
A man and a train, a train and a man
They both tried to run as far
And as fast as they can
But a man's not a train and a train's not a man
A man can do things that a train never can
Goin' up a mountain even half way to the top
The minute that a train runs out of steam it's gotta stop
But it's a different story when a man runs out of steam
He still can go a long, long way
On nothin' but a dream
Goin' cross the country when a train runs out of track
It has to stop and turn around and then start headin' back
But many miles from nowhere out where all the tracks are gone
A man who's got himself a dream
Can still keep goin' on
So don't try to stop me
Don't try to stop me cause nobody can
I've got a dream, a beautiful dream and that makes me a man
No don't try to stop me
Don't try to stop me cause nobody can
I've got a dream, a beautiful dream and that makes me
Makes me a man
Running that red block Charlie.
The bell is ringing. I'm buying. Anyone in?
LOSERS
I prefer to drink with losers,
I prefer to drink with both doors open,
I need that breeze passing through the bar,
I need to feel nature somehow all the time.
Yeah . . . I prefer to drink with losers:
Those who have lost, who have failed,
Who have come up like weeds through pavement.
I don't like to drink with winners—
The successful and the well-adjusted;
Something that forms them winners
Makes them keep needing to prove things
To themselves and to everyone else.
And there is so very little to prove,
And nothing to prove when you're drinking.
Winners, they rarely buy you a drink,
And certainly never for strangers,
And they always know when to stop drinking.
I've witnessed losers buying rounds
For entire bar rooms—everyone—
All the losers and all the winners.
So hey, drink up—
The bell is ringing,
And I'm buying.
LOSERS
I prefer to drink with losers,
I prefer to drink with both doors open,
I need that breeze passing through the bar,
I need to feel nature somehow all the time.
Yeah . . . I prefer to drink with losers:
Those who have lost, who have failed,
Who have come up like weeds through pavement.
I don't like to drink with winners—
The successful and the well-adjusted;
Something that forms them winners
Makes them keep needing to prove things
To themselves and to everyone else.
And there is so very little to prove,
And nothing to prove when you're drinking.
Winners, they rarely buy you a drink,
And certainly never for strangers,
And they always know when to stop drinking.
I've witnessed losers buying rounds
For entire bar rooms—everyone—
All the losers and all the winners.
So hey, drink up—
The bell is ringing,
And I'm buying.
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