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CUPOLA
...FROM THE EDITOR
    It always surprises me to come across a modeller who still has all the equipment he started with (model railroad equipment I’m talking about - don’t be rude!) My HO days started as all steam, in fact pure C&O. Those days seem so long ago now as to belong to another century
(and, no, I am NOT that old!)
The all-C&O era gave way fairly soon to the “believable mixture”, some B&O and Pennsy just for a little variety, then one day another creature arrived on the scene - an RSD-12. There is an old Arab saying, “Never let the camel put its nose in the tent. If you do, pretty soon the camel will be sleeping in the tent and you will be outside in the desert!” Call me an old cynic, but I’ve found this applies to many and varied aspects of life, and so I now find myself with an all-diesel roster. It still surprises me a little to reflect that I didn’t even save a single favourite steam loco. Perhaps it is no wonder that there are no survivors from many highly prized classes of prototype steam locomotive.
I am pleased to occasionally see one or other of my old steam roster working hard in their new home. I hope the
new owners have as much pleasure
from them as I did. But it really must be very satisfying to still have all your old models, each one per- haps bringing back some memories of a particular time of life, an early layout, or model shows of years gone by. It is a little like seeing a car you once owned, still trundling around the town years later. Does anyone reading have a particular favourite loco still, obtained ages ago and still in regular service?
Georgia on my mind...
Sometime in the next few months we again hope to be away in the fair state of Georgia, mainly to rail- fan the Western & Atlantic. This, the busiest CSX line out of Atlanta, heads north-west up to
Chattanooga and is an oddity in that much of the infrastructure is owned by the State, which charges CSX a hefty rent for its use. (Shades of Railtrack? They should be so lucky.)
One particular spot I am heading for is the little ‘city’ of Elizabeth, now really part of Marietta, a few miles north of Atlanta. Here the 66 mile long Georgia Northeastern RR originates, with its shops, and an interchange with CSX, easi- ly accessible from the local highways. Yet another Home for Old Geeps, mostly 9’s and 18’s and at least one with a Topeka cab GP7, the silver and dark-red locos rumble about serving chicken producers and marble quarries - a perfect setting for a model, and very possibly the basis for my next layout... if...when...). We also hope to invade the NMRA HQ again, on our way to riding the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum train to East Chattanooga.
Week Two will probably see us down in southeast Georgia, as the Waycross area was really good last time. Any tales worth relating will probably be inscribed in this journal at some future date. Hard luck!
Martin Boyask
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