National Geographic: Love Those Trains Page #2
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the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
People who love trains dressed up
for the occasion and gathered
from miles around.
Many had never heard the hoot of a
steam whistle
or the screech of brakes.
Nostalgia for those seemingly
innocent days of American history
is very much alive today.
For some, no doubt,
steam engines are the attraction.
For others, perhaps,
it is the appeal of travel.
Or could it be that so many share
the romantic notion of growing up
to be an engineer?
These trains are called live steamers.
Seymour Johnson loves trains so much
that he donated land and equipment
for a miniature railroad at his home
in Montecito, California.
I think in my case and in the case of
a lot of people,
you kind of grew up with them as toys
and these are pretty big toys.
I started building
this particular engine in 1947
and I completed it in 1951.
And that's why I have the numbers on
the side-4751-to remind me of the time.
Johnson and the local members
of the Goleta Valley Railroad Club
spent 17 years building their line.
Today they test their engines
on more than a mile of track.
There is something nostalgic
of course, but the thing is,
a steam locomotive is live.
when you're running it.
You can feel what it's doing.
It tells you I'm working too hard
or I'm taking it easy.
You can hear it in the stack,
you can hear it in the sound of the
blower, the sound of the fire.
They've got steam engines that
that continue to run.
Once a year, Johnson and the club
host a three-day meet
from all over the country.
Each engine is custom-built,
representing thousands of hours
of meticulous machining.
And as in real life,
the engineers discover
that steam engines can be cantankerous
beasts capable of fighting back.
Well, this is a 21/2-inch scale,
narrow gauge locomotive built
to run on 71/2-inch track.
We're trying to duplicate exactly
the kind of engine
that the Colorado & Southern used
back in the years
of 1890 through 1936.
Hey, John, you want to push
the daylight car into the siding?
The most popular daily event is
the grand tour of the line
for families and friends.
Three engines are coupled.
Together they are pulling six tons
of engines, cars, and passengers.
We now have 14 cars.
Mostly they're freight-car type
because people are way out of scale.
This train is one-eighth full size,
but people aren't.
So if you put them in a passenger car,
you can't put a roof on.
But if you put them in a freight car,
the sky is the limit.
Many of those who build and enjoy
riding live steamers
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