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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 1/29/2008
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and another from the same page of dads album
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Billie Dad Mum me (in front) Rick and Peter in front of him Meryn and Norm.. |
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 1/29/2008
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you know... they still run historical steam train runs in Australia... 38.01 the most famous train.. runs pretty regularly as Maitland.. down the road is the city of Steamfest.. yeah they have a steam festival... but yeah.. we used (as kids) travel to my uncles place in the Blue Mountains a place called Lawson where Col lived and worked (for the railways as it happened) and yeah we used to travel on a train pulled by a steam loco with a garret sometimes as well.. I remeber running from side to side of the carriage so we could stick our heads out the window and see the loco puffing away up the inclines to Lawson.. oh sweet memory of Col and Billie's place.. old sleep out on the verandahs Col n Billies Kids my cousins Norm Rick and Meryn. Norm made it through, Rick is an alco and Meryn died of cancer when she was about 35... we used to walk down to the national park that was nearby there place... to Fredrica Falls.. hows that I remember the name of the falls.. down this narrow bush track and we used to catch yabbies in the pool at the bottom of the falls... oh sweet sweet memory.. they had a wood fired stove.. awesome and a huge woodpile I remember listening to Norms crystal set too out in the sleepout.. used to love going up to lawson.. used to love it.. now of course Lawson is a small town by passed pretty much the train sheds are all empty and no one stops there anymore... (i bought My Second Camera Bag see UF the other day in an antique shop there years later) My uncle and Billie ended up back in Sydney.. Billie suffered a stroke and was wheelchared for ever.. Col bore it all pretty well later he had a heart attack in bed (he was 70 something) and Billie was trying to get to the phone and fell out of the wheelchair... they found them after the neighbours thought they hadn't seen them for a while.. they called the cops and they found them both dead and after they had been dead for about two weeks... god that is a such a sad way for a whole lot of memories to end.. sh1t man
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Lto R Rick Billie Col Meryn Norm Mum Peter my older brother n me.. L Burril |
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Jim Loy
{K:31373} 1/28/2008
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NO!!!!!..... I don't.....
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Jim Loy
{K:31373} 1/28/2008
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I would... it is out of the norm for Yanks... a wonderful way to sit back and see the land rolling about.
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Jim Loy
{K:31373} 1/28/2008
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Steam engines…. Yes. I remember them… and yes, they were in my childhood. I was born and reared in Gary, Indiana. Steel City, USA. Murder Capital of the US. But, on weekends, in the summer… me and my siblings would now and then travel to the country… to a bit of place my Grandfather owned. Seatonville, Illinois. A small house, a bit of land… ages away from Gary… centuries…eons… from Gary. On some of those days, back when… I sat in the summer evening and listened for the train to come… it was then (and now) just a few hundred feet from my place… and when the train came scrambling by… when it passed… more often than not it was driven by steam. The last… the very honest-to-me last time I saw a train pass by the place where I live, the bit of Illinois bequeathed to me and what I call my own… the last time I ever saw a train was on July 4th.. and the engine spat sparks and wonder from the frame… sparklers and glory defined… fizzles shot up and about . The train passed slowly by and had as a statement… missiles and sparks a fury… and I sat on a small rise in Illinois and watched it passed in glory seldom felt since…..
I am old enough to remember steam engines… and old enough to recall the last one to traverse the austere and flat land of Seatonville…
And I thank you for culling up the memory…
I now own a bit of the land I sat on many, many, years ago… but sadly, no trains pass…
I remember the steam engine roaring by…. And I walk by the dormant yet ageless tracks when I go out my woods… the place is there… the memories are there…
…the trains are long gone.
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Gabrielle Willson
{K:7978} 1/27/2008
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awesome railway scene
very evocative
do you remember steam trains or are you not as old as me or were they not a feature of your childhood?
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 1/27/2008
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Double decker train! Cool!
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 1/26/2008
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excellent shot btw.. nearly as good as Tosh's train shot from yesty... nice gritty steel and shine.. would be glorious in B&W.. but then you dont do that sort of thing so.. oh well
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 1/26/2008
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yeah but would you recommend it as a way to travel all the US.. like the glossy brochures say
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 1/26/2008
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The reflections really set this one apart Jim . . . good eye!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Pietro Clarizia
{K:8241} 1/26/2008
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nicely composed, good tones too !
ciao !
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