Happy Birthday moparedtn

[64BEL]

ED!!!!!

 

[1STMP]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ED!!!

 

[PlymCrazy]

Sorry I’m late to the party Ed.
I was trying to find some 135° degree sprinklers to help get that fire out early on that candle laden birthday cake.

Found some for ya…

Happy birthday man

 

[Photon440]

 

[moparedtn]

@64BEL Thank you sir.
@1STMP Thanks DJ!
@PlymCrazy No worries my friend. You're on THE ADVENTURE and sharing it! I'm grateful for that.
Wife is insisting we're doing a similar trip next year; bless her, I'm more the realist...but it's a nice dream.
@Photon440 Thank you! Hope things are getting a bit easier for y'all up there these days.

 

[71dodgechargerrt]

A day late, Happy Birthday ED!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[moparedtn]

A day late, Happy Birthday ED!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank ya man!

 

[Dennis H]

HBD!

 

[moparedtn]

HBD!

Thanks Dennis!

 

[65Bel]

A Belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ed!!

 

[DeltaV]

 

[moparedtn]

A Belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ed!!

@DeltaV
Thank you, gentlemen.

 

[1STMP]

@64BEL Thank you sir.
@1STMP Thanks DJ!
@PlymCrazy No worries my friend. You're on THE ADVENTURE and sharing it! I'm grateful for that.
Wife is insisting we're doing a similar trip next year; bless her, I'm more the realist...but it's a nice dream.
@Photon440 Thank you! Hope things are getting a bit easier for y'all up there these days.

You're welcome, Ed.
Don't know if you recognise the train?
It's in Dollywood Park, Tennesee.
My contract was up for a job I held in
Ohio, the next being in Texas.
In my travels I made plans to see points of
intrest along the way. Being a Dolly fan and my
love for old trains, I couldn't pass this one up.
Not a long train ride, but through some of
the most beautiful country I've ever seen.

 

[moparedtn]

You're welcome, Ed.
Don't know if you recognise the train?
It's in Dollywood Park, Tennesee.
My contract was up for a job I held in
Ohio, the next being in Texas.
In my travels I made plans to see points of
intrest along the way. Being a Dolly fan and my
love for old trains, I couldn't pass this one up.
Not a long train ride, but through some of
the most beautiful country I've ever seen.

To be honest, I didn't recognize it - I haven't been in Dollywood in a number of years (and to be further honest,
I've never been there as a customer, only in the performance of my job a couple times even then).
She bought that railway/attraction like 30 years ago and they have kept it running all these years (there's actually
two loco's, with a third being cannibalized for parts for them).

The park is a little over 1.25 hours from us as the crow flies, usually more than that due to the incredibly thick
traffic through that Pigeon Forge/Sevierville/Gatlinburg corridor. I've seen estimates of over 10 million visitors
passing through on their way to the Great Smoky Mountains national park each year, spending like a billion
tourist dollars along the way.
The place is nuts, is what I'm saying.

Yes, we live in what is called God's country for real. There's a reason I hang out on the ridge here.

 

[1STMP]

To be honest, I didn't recognize it - I haven't been in Dollywood in a number of years (and to be further honest,
I've never been there as a customer, only in the performance of my job a couple times even then).
She bought that railway/attraction like 30 years ago and they have kept it running all these years (there's actually
two loco's, with a third being cannibalized for parts for them).

The park is a little over 1.25 hours from us as the crow flies, usually more than that due to the incredibly thick
traffic through that Pigeon Forge/Sevierville/Gatlinburg corridor. I've seen estimates of over 10 million visitors
passing through on their way to the Great Smoky Mountains national park each year, spending like a billion
tourist dollars along the way.
The place is nuts, is what I'm saying.

Yes, we live in what is called God's country for real. There's a reason I hang out on the ridge here.

The locomotives used at the
park were used by the US army
to haul supplies on the
Yukon Route,” a railroad that linked the port of Skagway, Alaska with the city of Whitehorse, the capital of the Canadian territory of Yukon.
During world war II, to guard against
Japan attacking the US via Alaska.

 

[moparedtn]

The locomotives used at the
park were used by the US army
to haul supplies on the
Yukon Route,” a railroad that linked the port of Skagway, Alaska with the city of Whitehorse, the capital of the Canadian territory of Yukon.
During world war II, to guard against
Japan attacking the US via Alaska.

Aye. They're narrow-gauge loco's, built in the 1930's. You been reading Wki eh?

 

[1STMP]

Aye. They're narrow-gauge loco's, built in the 1930's. You been reading Wki eh?

Yes, but a:while back. The history of the locomotives
is why I botherd to detour my trip to Texas. I overlooked
the tourist trap aspect. Hàd to pay admission to the park,
for the train ride, and a motel room, but worth every minute.
The Cumbres/Toltec train, so far, has been my favorite.

 

[Big bill]

Happy belated birthday man thanks for all your insight.

 

[moparedtn]

Happy belated birthday man thanks for all your insight.

Thank ya Bill!

 

[Richard Cranium]