Grandson David took a few vacation days to go to the train club with John. He knows people there and was pleased to spend time with two men named Bob from the Long Island club, shown here with their steam engines and John between them.
I liked David’s photo of a few of the trains running that day. Can you see the steam coming out of the smokestack nearest the camera? Those trains burn coal or oil. I don’t know the people in the picture.
David took a photo as Bob drove the train through woods. David’s knees are in the foreground.
David was eating a homemade breakfast sandwich, which developed a cheese tongue as he ate. I was very aware of tongues from avoiding Sadie’s.
The big rock in the creek often snags branches, but this time the catch looked like a board covered with cloth. Unless someone moves it, the board will stay there until the next heavy rain.
Mehrling Muse 
What fun! That looks like a serious train-love group. 🙂
I have to confess, I was expecting a story about exotic British tongue sandwich. That is one ‘delicacy’ I was never willing to try, though I can recall my grandmother cooking it back in the 50s when I was a child.
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John’s mother served tongue several times, and I was glad we never had it again. I never saw it in the supermarket, so I’m thinking it went out of style. Tongue tasted good. Its appearance was disgusting.
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That does look like fabric wrapped around a board like you would find in a fabric store. There must be a story there but we’ll never know!
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That’s what I thought, too. The bank was steep, so we weren’t about to climb down to look closer.
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Ditto what Kate said. Odd to see it where it is, but at least it’s a natural color like green. 😉
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We’ll be watching to see when it disappears.
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Uncle John looks soooooo happy 🙂
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He was in hog heaven. The men John was with were good friends in NY for a long time. He has long phone conversations with them fairly often.
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Omg so fun!!!
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Those trains are huge for hobby trains! Those guys mean business with their hobby!
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They are seriously into trains.
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Good to see the trains we have heard so much about. A whole train yard.
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I’ve been after John for ages to get photos people could relate to. David did it for me. John had taken shots of track work that no one would be interested in.
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Those trains are so cool. My grandson would love them.
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Lots of children and adults love those trains.
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do you know what “gauge” those trains are Anne?
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The trains are very heavy, so the men call it the hernia gauge. I’ll have to ask John tomorrow for the correct term.
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funny! and I bet a few have!
I looked at the different gauges,might be a 7 1/4″?
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John was impressed that you knew 7 1/4″ gauge. His club is 7 1/2″. He explained that most of the world has 7 1/4″. Southern and Western states and Western Canada use the slightly larger one.
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tell John I come from Peterborough where they have a 2 footer. I’ve always loved old trains! Here is a link to the train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajmh2o71Y0Y
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What fun!
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I like the trains. I guess big humans have toys too! Looks like fun.
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You would look good sitting on one of the riding cars.
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I also was expecting a post about tongue! My mother loved it and I remember being completely grossed out as a kid seeing it boiling in the pan. Then she went to buying pickled tongue in a can. Really disgusting. Apparently during the War she had eaten it since meat was so rationed. She would never touch tripe again, but she took to tongue.
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I are it when my mother-in-law served tongue, but I thought it looked gross.
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Totally gross.
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Wow! Those trains are amazing! I had no idea they were so big! I was thinking of the 12-inch-long trains my big brother had when we were kids, from Lionel. So, wow, again!! And they can actually sit on them and ‘drive’ them, so fun!
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The men have lots of fun with their hobby. They work hard, too. John has always been involved in track work. Several men he knows have built their own engines.
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Wow!!
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That’s great that David is following in John’s footsteps with the interest in trains. Next, he will be wanting a pair of overalls like all the engineers are wearing. I can definitely see the plume of steam in the pictures. This looks like lots of fun!
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David had the overalls when he was a child. I asked if he wanted a pair, and he said he has one that would still fit. Jeans are more comfortable.
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