National Geographic: Love Those Trains Page #2

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1991
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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

about steam engines now,

of course, but the thing is,

a steam locomotive is live.

The engine talks to you

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

are over a hundred years old

that continue to run.

Once a year, Johnson and the club

host a three-day meet

that attracts model owners

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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