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by ron parola » Wed Feb 01, 2017 5:40 pm
I didn't see any mention of the all time classic; Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel. A story full of drama, angst, and redemption.... at least as I remember it, being 6 or 7 at the time,maybe that's what started it all for me? Also check out Rudyard Kiplings; Steam Tactics, a short story about his American steam car in Britain; Blimey yer boilers held in with PAPERCLIPS!! Ok not fiction but he did streeeetch the truth.
And I was in a gas station in Santa Barbara in the late 60's or early 70's when a road locomotive came trundling in !? Two English blokes were driving the damn thing around the world sponsored by Joe Lucas, they were headed down the coast to LA to be shipped across the Pacific, don't remember if to AU or elsewhere. I, years later, began to doubt my memory and sort of forgot about that BUT stumbled across a photo of them and it in a book, HAH; I wasn't dreaming! So maybe multiple things sent me down this sorry road. I realized I really couldn't use a traction engine, rail locomotive or even a Sentinal so turned to Steam cars, boats, margarita makers Cheers rp