These days there only 19 in FL, all in the panhandle.
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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
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I remember having a toy, or maybe a model plane, that looked a lot like that.
I saw it in Roseville, but I didn't get to see it in motion. They call it "Big Boy" for a reason!
I have seen them fly at air shows. The 1940's F-86 Sabre was a beautiful jet and one of the first successful combat jet planes with a half-dozen .50 caliber M3 machine guns on front. It had a top speed of 700+ MPH. I love the menacing teeth on this paint job!
Big indeed. Man it was hot. We lasted about 30 minutes after quite a long walk from the parking structure down the road. 3 and 6 year olds don’t enjoy HOT long walks… frankly neither does this 44 year old.
Years ago, Union Pacific sent one of the 4-8-8-4 Big Boys around the country and it made a stop in Nashville. Went down to the CSX Switchyard to see it. You have no concept of 'mechanical' or 'steampunk' until you're up close and personal with one of the behemoths. Sitting still, but dripping water, oozing steam, smoke out of the stack, and the sights and heavy oil smell of it, it almost felt like something alive. We have a few historical train rides here in Tennessee, but they seemed like the little kiddie train that circled a Putt-Putt course alongside of this thing.
At that time, I lived not far from the northbound CSX track out of Nashville, and knew it would pass down that track heading north out of town. Did the mental math knowing how long it would take to ease out of downtown while building speed for the transit to Louisville. BEFORE it came into sight or sound, I could actually feel the deep rumbling in the ground that intensified until it passed. Man oh man.
Big Boy No. 4014 | Union Pacific
No. 4014 – the world’s only operational Big Boy – was originally delivered to Union Pacific in December 1941 to support the war effort. After a multi-year restoration project was completed in 2019 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad’s completion, No. 4014 is the...
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I’m fairly certain that the plane on the box is a B36 Peacekeeper.
You’re probably right. I was defaulting to the one the used in Japan.
Yup. And the others are Martin Marauders(B-26).
Not that I've noticed. I get the convenience of them, but even when I had cassettes I didn't like them. They'd lose high-end fidelity after a while, and of course there was the horrible *screech* sound when the tape started stretching. Good riddance.
We had that one for our Atari system. The dashes instead of dots and sound effects were terrible.
One of my high school friends would play Tempest for hours on one quarter. I was usually playing Wizard of Wor.
I had one of these, but not the transport. You could program it to move around however you wanted, had a 'laser' that would fire on the front, and it would turn in place due to the six wheels. It took forever to program it, though, and I think it had a limited number of steps you could program into it. It was pretty fun, though.
Two landmark classic Italian motorcycles:
1994-1998 Ducati 916 Desmoquatro (four-valve heads on the 90-degree twin driven by Ducati's desmodromic valve train) The original Italian superbike, designed by the recently-passed Marcello Tamburini.
1999 M V Augusta F4i 1000 Corse: The Tamburini-designed masterpiece, here in the warmer 'Corse' version, but still sporting the famous 'organ pipe' exhaust array below the seat extension:
These bikes have had many successive iterations since these, but as is often the case, they got it right the first time. These make me weak in the knees. And absolute proof for when I tell my wife, 'see, ONLY Italians can do that'.
1994-1998 Ducati 916 Desmoquatro (four-valve heads on the 90-degree twin driven by Ducati's desmodromic valve train) The original Italian superbike, designed by the recently-passed Marcello Tamburini.
1999 M V Augusta F4i 1000 Corse: The Tamburini-designed masterpiece, here in the warmer 'Corse' version, but still sporting the famous 'organ pipe' exhaust array below the seat extension:
These bikes have had many successive iterations since these, but as is often the case, they got it right the first time. These make me weak in the knees. And absolute proof for when I tell my wife, 'see, ONLY Italians can do that'.
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You don’t see those guys anymore, in person…
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