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>On a rainy day, I turned to my archives. This image was made in color
>during a vacation trip in 1971, while my 10-yr old son was manning a
>gunnery station on the battleship USS North Carolina. Gear is unrecorded.
>
>http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Gunnery+Station+in+BW-1.jpg.html
>
Someone someplace has a similar photo with that I played a part in. I was
at an IEEE conference in Baltimore many years ago and took some time to visit
the B&O museum nearby. I wandered out into the back lot where the large
locomotives were stored. I came across their Allegheny class 2-6-6-6, which at
7,500 HP was the most powerful single-expansion steam locomotive ever built:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-6-6-6
http://remarkablevehicles.com/index.php?title=1941_Allegheny_Locomotive
http://steam.wesbarris.com/allegheny/
I was sitting at the engineer's seat, getting familiar with all of the
controls when this young fellow approached the cab and asked "Mister, what
makes it go?" I got him on the enginner's seat, and as he had his hand on the
throttle (roof-mounted, almost beyond his reach) his mother snapped a photo of
him.
I like to think that that experience inspired him to be a mechanical
engineer.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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