Wow!
I decided to drive to Arcade today to take some video footage of No. 18. When I arrived at 1:30 expecting to catch the departure of the 2:00 train, imagine my surprise to see no train at all! I knew I had the schedule right because I verified it beforehand: first train at 11:30, second at 2:00, third at 4:00. So it was instantly clear that something was amiss. As if the absent train weren't enough of a clue, a mayhem-beset depot mobbed with confused, angry, bewildered, and frustrated passengers gave the game away.
Making my way about the station, I could hear patrons on cell phones reporting that "the train's going to be really late," and "train broke down I guess," and "the train's broken so we can't go on it today," and so on, and so on, and so on. By the time I made my way to the ticket counter to ask what had happened, I'd already gotten the picture and I decided to spare whomever was behind the booth a question she'd surely been already asked about 300 times already.
I assumed that it was No. 18 that had broken down, so it didn't surprise me to see her parked in the yard in front of the shed. What did surprise me was that no steam at all was coming forth...she was completely cold. What also surprised me was the sight of two empty coaches in the front of the yard. Why would that be on such a busy day?
The answer came from Mandy at the gift shop who informed me that No. 18 did not run at all today. It was No. 112 that had broken down at Curriers. No. 111 was then dispatched to rescue the train, but was unable to pull all six cars, so it had to make two trips to rescue the train. What a mess. Mandy's answer to my question, "so, how are you today?" summed it all up: "On a scale of 1 to 10...three."
Driving up to Curriers, I found 112, sitting there, lonely and abandoned. What to do? Take a video of it and post it to YouTube, of course...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ohDPxTCv64
And I managed to get some nice videos of No. 111 in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_MJOMfgPA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1biiB5y4de0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRXctU__KfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZtJrVbYg6c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxEk5b5Mh_4
I decided to drive to Arcade today to take some video footage of No. 18. When I arrived at 1:30 expecting to catch the departure of the 2:00 train, imagine my surprise to see no train at all! I knew I had the schedule right because I verified it beforehand: first train at 11:30, second at 2:00, third at 4:00. So it was instantly clear that something was amiss. As if the absent train weren't enough of a clue, a mayhem-beset depot mobbed with confused, angry, bewildered, and frustrated passengers gave the game away.
Making my way about the station, I could hear patrons on cell phones reporting that "the train's going to be really late," and "train broke down I guess," and "the train's broken so we can't go on it today," and so on, and so on, and so on. By the time I made my way to the ticket counter to ask what had happened, I'd already gotten the picture and I decided to spare whomever was behind the booth a question she'd surely been already asked about 300 times already.
I assumed that it was No. 18 that had broken down, so it didn't surprise me to see her parked in the yard in front of the shed. What did surprise me was that no steam at all was coming forth...she was completely cold. What also surprised me was the sight of two empty coaches in the front of the yard. Why would that be on such a busy day?
The answer came from Mandy at the gift shop who informed me that No. 18 did not run at all today. It was No. 112 that had broken down at Curriers. No. 111 was then dispatched to rescue the train, but was unable to pull all six cars, so it had to make two trips to rescue the train. What a mess. Mandy's answer to my question, "so, how are you today?" summed it all up: "On a scale of 1 to 10...three."
Driving up to Curriers, I found 112, sitting there, lonely and abandoned. What to do? Take a video of it and post it to YouTube, of course...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ohDPxTCv64
And I managed to get some nice videos of No. 111 in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_MJOMfgPA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1biiB5y4de0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRXctU__KfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZtJrVbYg6c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxEk5b5Mh_4
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