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Busman747 · 18-08-2005, 22:54

Digging into your memories to rememise steam trains I am surprised that no one has mentioned the wonderful smell that eminates from a locomotive.

My village had a quarry which used steam trains to haul chalk to the lime kilns and as I read through this thread, I could actually smell the locomotives chugging away with their tons of chalk.......wonderful!

Just had to edit this as I remembered something as soon as I clicked the "send."

Some weeks back I had a coach load of 5 - 7 year olds on my coach and they were playing a game which entailed making the sound of various forms of transport. When it came to trains, they all made the sound of a steam train - - complete with whistle! I mentioned this to one of the teachers and she was almost speechless as she confessed that she hadn't realised the significance of young children copying a sound that was in the main obsolete for the past 40 years!

18-08-2005, 22:54	#32
Busman747 Always EVIL within us Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Accrington Posts: 1,568 Blog Entries: 4 Liked: 40 times Rep Power: 1670	Re: get rid of your steam?????????? Digging into your memories to rememise steam trains I am surprised that no one has mentioned the wonderful smell that eminates from a locomotive. My village had a quarry which used steam trains to haul chalk to the lime kilns and as I read through this thread, I could actually smell the locomotives chugging away with their tons of chalk.......wonderful! Just had to edit this as I remembered something as soon as I clicked the "send." Some weeks back I had a coach load of 5 - 7 year olds on my coach and they were playing a game which entailed making the sound of various forms of transport. When it came to trains, they all made the sound of a steam train - - complete with whistle! I mentioned this to one of the teachers and she was almost speechless as she confessed that she hadn't realised the significance of young children copying a sound that was in the main obsolete for the past 40 years! __________________ Pray that there is intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'Cause there's Bu""er all down here on Earth - (Eric Idle) Last edited by Busman747; 18-08-2005 at 23:02. Reason: additional text