Re: [Fwd: Cheerio from Jolly 'ol England]

[Michael Ziegler <zieglerm@swbell.net>]

Hi everyone,
I lightened the last photo in Photoshop to
get better light and contrast.
Hope it helps
Mike
--- Steve Wise <swise@aoot.com> wrote:

>  From Allan abroad!
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Cheerio from Jolly 'ol England
> Date: 	Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:00:40 -0500
> From: 	Allan_Adelman@amat.com
> To: 	ttat-info@aoot.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Good Morning Gents and Ladies,
> 
> Now that I got that jargon out of the way, I just wanted
> to say hi from
> England.  My trip is going fine, and I'm enjoying my
> commute on the
> Southern Railway each day.
> 
> All the trains going out of London are more like the
> metro commuter
> trains that run in DC, except these don't go
> underground.  There are a
> couple of things I noticed on them that I thought was
> interesting.  The
> first is that most of the cars have a first class
> section.  The second
> is that on the wheels, both sided are flanged, similar
> to what our
> engines look like if they throw a traction tire.  I was
> curious on how
> they go through switches, and I go through the yard at
> Horsham (see the
> first pic) every day, so I looked at the switches and
> they all have an
> indentation where the wheel crosses over - pretty neat.
> 
> 
> 
> Another thing I did while here was go to a small museum
> here in Horsham
> and in their toys through the ages room, they had an
> old, 3 rail HO set.
>   I've included several pictures of this as well.
> 
> 
> 
> I hope everyone is doing well and that you all have fun
> in San Antonio
> this weekend.
> 
> Cheers.  = )
> 
> Allan
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