Sure, pull out the big guns! I wish I was a little older so I could have seen these in action
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| Posted by beano on August 12, 2022 | |
I like the "were out there" part of this photo even though I was'nt with you. Desolated just a tad and pretty to and not a 711 in sight. O my. What a classic photo Steve. Every picture tells a story don't it. Just think and ponder for a space in time as we gaze at this. How many times the wicked wind blew over the hills at a ferocious speed in a snowstorm colder n heck and the station agent pours another cup and wonders if the roof will make it through the night. The winds howling so he turns up the oil stove again and waits for the train as the snow flies sideways in blizzard conditions. He hears the train in the far off distance blowing for a crossing and makes sure the coffee is hot for the crew as they have to stop for some parcels headed down a few stations. Watching Little Joe come up the grade whitefaced with snow clinging to it. A rugged sight to see. It stops crew climbs down and gets their thermos filled and a piece of apple pie for the road. Off into the blizzard they go. Five min later the brakes are applied rather severely and the manifest stops and backs up slowly. The crew in the caboose grab three parcels and half a apple pie and are ready to roll and off they go into the storm in one of the tuf tuf looking Milwaukee Road bay windowed cabooses that could withstand just about anything mother nature threw at them. The station agent watches the caboose for abit see's the wisp of smoke emitting from the rooftop an buttons the top button on his Pendelton jacket that he's had since he began working for the Milwaukee and lights a smoke. The wind pauses for a few moments, then a low low low howl and he hears the rear crew singing Volare, O O. the station agent starts laughing because the crew and the lo lo wind howl are both in tune. Another Ringling day on Milwaukee's Road as the snow flies. Volare oh oh !
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