In honor of PP's birthday, here is a real American train, with cow catcher and all.Looks like a 4-4-0 to me, but I am no expert. That is the number of wheels - first front wheels (4), then driving wheels (4), and then back wheels (0 in this case). Oh, all the things you learn while being married to a train guy!
PP, you can tell us more - is this the General or some other famous locomotive? I like the big lamp on the front. Also, this is not how the Swedish locomotives looked like - why were they so different between continents?
Just your basic "American" 4-4-0 a type developed here and was the main type of locomotive for many years.
ReplyDeleteI too like those headlights, oil burning. Didn't provide much light but I like the way they look.
Flipped through a train book the other day and I think it resembles a "Baldwin 3003" if I remember it right. Correct?
ReplyDeleteGoogled (although Google dislikes it) and found a nice scale model of the Baldwin 3003.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be hard to get the word out of our minds and it has already entered the dictionaries:
ReplyDeleteWebster's New Millennium Dictionary of English (from dictionary.com)
Main Entry: google
Definition: to search for information about a specific person through the Google search engine
Etymology: trademark Google
I guess "it sucks to be Google", then. ;)
ReplyDeleteOK, did you see where this model of 3003 was built? Nearer you than I.
ReplyDeleteYes, the original train was running in Finland too.
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