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 Bustedknuckle
      
Location: The Lone Star State
Gender: Male
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints"
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<Reply # 140 on 12/22/2007 9:58 PM >
|  | | | This is the train that was at the LION COUNTRY SAFARI. 2X I added this pic to your gallery.
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Explorer Zero
 
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<Reply # 141 on 12/22/2007 10:18 PM >
| | | | Ok, now we need some more context for real because I dont remember that train at all.
1. was it for Lion Country or International Wildlife?
2. was it like a narrow guage replica (I bet some collector collected all that track & train)
3. was it real steam driven? oil, wood, coal??
I guess I never saw it. I went there when I was just about 5th or 6th grade and we drove through in the family station wagon. I especially remembered the surly looking animal security guys with sawed offs and Ruger .44s ostensibly to protect patrons from leopard or baboon attacks.
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Bustedknuckle
Location: The Lone Star State
Gender: Male
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints"
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<Reply # 142 on 12/22/2007 10:26 PM >
| | | | Well I would give more info, but as far as I can remember (I was about 8 when I took this shot!) I think it was International Wildlife Park, that sounds more familiar than Lion Country.... I was there in about 1987 or so, I went a few years later too.
I am pretty sure that that job was actual steam driven, like the ones at the zoo.
Sorry for the vagueness.
And oh yeah that train was for sure at that park! Maybe they removed it in later years.
[last edit 12/22/2007 10:28 PM by Bustedknuckle - edited 1 times]
"It's not a fanny pack, it's an exploring pouch!"
-"Yes it is, it has fanny written all over it" |
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Explorer Zero
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<Reply # 143 on 12/22/2007 10:47 PM >
| | | | well I didnt ride the boats either I think the auto tour may have been an optional deal or something seems like we did the whole thing by car
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Bustedknuckle
Location: The Lone Star State
Gender: Male
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints"
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<Reply # 144 on 12/22/2007 10:59 PM >
| | | | Posted by 2Xplorations
I especially remembered the surly looking animal security guys with sawed offs and Ruger .44s ostensibly to protect patrons from leopard or baboon attacks.
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Now this I dont remember!
I have more pics in storage somewhere of my mom and I riding an elephant and some other crap there. I guess I will dig em up. I do remember an old jeep out there with zebra stripes painted all over it. Jeez that was a long time ago.
"It's not a fanny pack, it's an exploring pouch!"
-"Yes it is, it has fanny written all over it" |
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Explorer Zero
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<Reply # 145 on 12/22/2007 10:59 PM >
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Bustedknuckle
Location: The Lone Star State
Gender: Male
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints"
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<Reply # 146 on 12/23/2007 12:50 PM >
| | | | Ok so lets do cabooses now!
These are individual cabooses are actually motel rooms.
obviously
Most are ex Pennsylvania Rail Road
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Explorer Zero
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<Reply # 147 on 12/23/2007 1:01 PM >
| | | | so, thats where they all went!
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Bustedknuckle
Location: The Lone Star State
Gender: Male
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints"
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<Reply # 148 on 12/23/2007 1:07 PM >
| | | | Posted by Bustedknuckle
Ok so lets do cabooses now!
These are individual cabooses are actually motel rooms.
*edit*Sunday morning grammatical error alert above*
obviously
Most are ex Pennsylvania Rail Road
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"It's not a fanny pack, it's an exploring pouch!"
-"Yes it is, it has fanny written all over it" |
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Raticus
 
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Location: Tyler
Gender: Male
Ratus exploricus abandonae
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<Reply # 149 on 12/23/2007 2:49 PM >
| | | | Cabeese.
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<Reply # 150 on 12/23/2007 3:46 PM >
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Last, but with class.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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Raticus
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Location: Tyler
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Ratus exploricus abandonae
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<Reply # 151 on 12/23/2007 4:16 PM >
| | | | I've never seen one like that. That's different for sure.
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Bustedknuckle
Location: The Lone Star State
Gender: Male
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints"
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<Reply # 152 on 12/23/2007 5:50 PM >
| | | | those bay window cabooses are the best
"It's not a fanny pack, it's an exploring pouch!"
-"Yes it is, it has fanny written all over it" |
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Bustedknuckle
Location: The Lone Star State
Gender: Male
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints"
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<Reply # 153 on 12/23/2007 7:43 PM >
| | | | 2X opened the can of worms......so blame him
Freedom Train 1976
both show a 2 yr old me, I guess this is why I enjoy trains
"It's not a fanny pack, it's an exploring pouch!"
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Geo
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<Reply # 154 on 12/23/2007 9:29 PM >
| | | | I found this one on a siding next to a pepsi plant.
G
This was why I stopped, even though I have no idea as to its real meaning.
I thought it was nice to see the GV.
The wasps kept me from spending much time. I grabbed one and bailed.
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Geo
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<Reply # 155 on 12/23/2007 9:44 PM >
| | | | Seeing as how we are on the trains subject... I thought some of you may find this neat.
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I live in an old train station, while researching it and the surrounding neighborhood I found this in the local historical society.
This was NYC engine #3017, its boiler blew up in my backyard Jan 18th, 1911. It was brand new when it happened since its build date is January 1911 by the American Locomotive Co.'s Schenectady plant.
It was a 4-6-2 Pacific type, NYC's class K-10. These were basically passenger engines, but had relatively small (69-inch) driving wheels and were often used as utility engines, on local passenger trains, freights, and even switching work.
Despite appearances, the 3017 rose from the dead. It got a new boiler in June 1911 and was finally scrapped in June 1934.
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Happiedaze
 
Location: Galveston Area, TX
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 156 on 12/23/2007 10:06 PM >
| | | | Posted by Geo
Seeing as how we are on the trains subject... I thought some of you may find this neat.
G
I live in an old train station, while researching it and the surrounding neighborhood I found this in the local historical society.
This was NYC engine #3017, its boiler blew up in my backyard Jan 18th, 1911. It was brand new when it happened since its build date is January 1911 by the American Locomotive Co.'s Schenectady plant.
http://www.klrue.c...ngs/engine3017.jpg
It was a 4-6-2 Pacific type, NYC's class K-10. These were basically passenger engines, but had relatively small (69-inch) driving wheels and were often used as utility engines, on local passenger trains, freights, and even switching work.
Despite appearances, the 3017 rose from the dead. It got a new boiler in June 1911 and was finally scrapped in June 1934.
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In your backyard? Wow.. that is some cool history. Thanks for sharing 
I wish something cool happened in MY back yard. So far trains blowing up and people finding tunnels and stuff. Where is my excitement? Thats it.. I'm moving.
'Our plans are all laid out,
take all these unmarked roads,
we blaze the trails to places no one goes, yeah!' -Rise Against |
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Bustedknuckle
Location: The Lone Star State
Gender: Male
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints"
| | | Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 157 on 12/23/2007 11:20 PM >
| | | | Posted by Geo
I live in an old train station
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Pictures?????
"It's not a fanny pack, it's an exploring pouch!"
-"Yes it is, it has fanny written all over it" |
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Geo
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<Reply # 158 on 12/23/2007 11:22 PM >
| | | | Posted by Bustedknuckle
Pictures?????
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Of my house!??! Not likely.
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Raticus
Moderator
Location: Tyler
Gender: Male
Ratus exploricus abandonae
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<Reply # 159 on 12/24/2007 12:46 AM >
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We have one of these MoPac 'booses here in town. They occasionally use it on the rock trains.
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