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Autumn Run Video

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#1

Autumn is here on the HDRR…

#2

Great video Joe(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#3

I like it “Sparky Joe” Looks like you and “Handsome” are having fun. Was that a gypsy caboose behind the Davenport train and what was that noise? It sounded like it was live steam??

#4

Todd Haskins said:

I like it “Sparky Joe” Looks like you and “Handsome” are having fun. Was that a gypsy caboose behind the Davenport train and what was that noise? It sounded like it was live steam??

Todd,

Thanks Todd. My old friend Herb is 90 years old and a combat wounded Normandy invasion vet. He loves to watch the trains and tells me how to run them, so he is my conductor. I believe the additional sound on the video is my neighbor running his ATV. I don’t have any live steam locos at this time (only a stationary engine). (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Edited to add…I guess you could call that caboose a gypsy caboose. It was built in the HDRR shops to be a toolcar/caboose for the log train.

#5

Thank Handsome Herb for his service for me. Did he go ashore at Utah or Omaha, or drop in behind the beach with the Paras?

#6

Neat video Joe… Keep them coming.

#7

Steve Featherkile said:

Thank Handsome Herb for his service for me. Did he go ashore at Utah or Omaha, or drop in behind the beach with the Paras?

He went in on Utah beach. He was in the 79th ID as was my wife’s father, but they did not know each other until 2000, when they meet at my house and got to talking. The 79th went ashore on D+8. Herb was wounded by artillery fire in the fighting for St-Lô between July 3rd and July 19th, 1944. My FIL passed two years ago at age 95.