These are all cool, and I know it's a truck forum, but, if you could just find one with a radial engine bi-plane too.
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THANKS for THAT!!! I've been around airplanes and airports and air-shows for years and never seen anything like that! I've hand prop-started many a Piper cub, Cessna 120, even a 172 that had a weak battery, but I think I would look for cover when they pulled that starting device out! Looks like if the engine kicked back, someone would be wearing the drive chain.
Huck's Engine Starter THANK YOU for that link ! . As far as old vehicles and trains , please be aware that things often fall off moving trains and are typically heavy items with lots of inertia ~ I never get close to moving trains after talking to Rail Men in my youth .
Most awesome slide show! Most folks don't know that General Motors built some of the finest locomotives ever made! Their "EMD" division cranked out some beauties in the day, including these 3 awesomely restored ones that still exist today! The "SP" and "UP" models are F7 units produced from Feb 1949 thru Dec 1953 and the "WP" model E9 was produced from Apr 1954 thru Jan 1964. Pretty cool that the production years over-lap the Chevy and GMC Advance Design years! Ken
On the subject of trains, I just discovered videos of my grandfather doing a train show on youtube. It shure is nice to be able to see and hear him again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYWG3JjScNs&feature=youtu.be part 2.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgEDTDa5raE
Thanks for sharing that Russ, to be able to hear and see your Grand Father must really be special. Thanks ever so much, Charles
Those videos are awesome! Thanks Russ! What I'd give to hear again the pearls of wisdom that came out of my granddad's mouth! Dad used to tell me stories of my granddad riding on the runningboards of Model A's with a wrench in one hand and a screwdriver in the other adjusting valves for his customers. Talk about a hot valve job! What a gentleman and a scholar!
