Steam Trains and Kilts .. it doesn't get much better!

**2176agp** · 9th August 10, 02:25 AM

Paid a visit to the Western Maryland Steam Railway on Sunday .... kilted of course.

Big question of the day -- where's your bag pipes? Have to com eup with a snappy reply to that one.

A super day all in all.

Tony

**cessna152towser** · 9th August 10, 03:40 AM

Wow I am so envious! I would love to visit some of America's heritage railroads.

**xman** · 9th August 10, 03:59 AM

Originally Posted by 2176agp

-- where's your bag pipes? Have to com eup with a snappy reply to that one.

I traded mine for a banjo.

**BEEDEE** · 9th August 10, 04:49 AM

Originally Posted by 2176agp

Big question of the day -- where's your bag pipes? Have to come up with a snappy reply to that one.

Last time I got that was from an Asian doorman at a hotel in Chicago. My response? "Where's your chopsticks"

Brian

**Mike_Oettle** · 9th August 10, 05:11 AM

Hi, Tony – what a behemoth that steamer is!
Nice pictures. Did the missus take them? And if not, where was she?
Regards,
Mike

**artificer** · 9th August 10, 05:51 AM

Great pix and you're right, the Kilt and Steamies are a great combo.

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

Wow I am so envious! I would love to visit some of America's heritage railroads.

You should get yourself up to the Upper Great Lakes, We've got two fantastic railway museums within 350 miles of each other, and a total of 14 in just two states.

The two big ones are the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, WI. This one has a Big Boy, Aerotrain, and a Gresley A4 (not that you don't get enough of those on your side of the pond. A few hours south is the Illinois Railway Museum, which I haven't been to yet, but is on our list.

**McClef** · 9th August 10, 06:08 AM

Being a volunteer on the Blaenafon Heritage Railway and kilted on running days it's an experience I have frequently!

**tulloch** · 9th August 10, 06:36 AM

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

Wow I am so envious! I would love to visit some of America's heritage railroads.

Alex, there is a small steam railroad in Lincoln NH where you will be at Loon Mountain. I don't know if you knew about this. Check it out. Looking around with google I see what looks like steam and some other images that appear to be diesel.

**Mike_Oettle** · 9th August 10, 06:51 AM

McClef wrote: “Being a volunteer on the Blaenafon Heritage Railway and kilted on running days it's an experience I have frequently!”

Definitely somewhere I will have to go if I ever set foot in Britain!
Regards,
Mike

**Frank McGrath** · 9th August 10, 09:02 AM

Does anyone recognize the "WM 734" as a Former Canadian Pacific locomotive?

I have never taken the time to visit Cumberland and ride the Scenic. But, living in the Baltimore/Washington corridor for all my life, I have been to several great museums. The Smithsonian, of Course, The B & O Museum in Baltimore, the Ellicott City train museum, The Western Maryland Historical Society in Union Bridge, Hagerstown( I was there just before the old roundhouse was torn down) And Brunswick, home of another roundhouse cruelly destroyed by CSX in the name of safety, and the museum there. The history of the railroads is big in Maryland. And if you want to travel just a little farther, there are the sites in Pa. Strasburg, Altoona, Etc. Go south and you get to the Roanoke museum....It's all here. A ferroequinologist could spend a week and not see it all. And a lot of these I have been to while kilted.