Recent content by Nick L. Plaite

The steam boiler idea is also a very good one. Our steam excursion this May took us from Rocky River Ohio to Bellevue Ohio round trip. The stop in Bellevue included a couple of hours at the Mad River and NKP railroad museum. I noticed in photos there that some of the diesel locomotives in the...

I knew someone on this forum would know the answer. I checked with my older sister and she confirmed that it was summer of 1970, so my memory of this must be wrong. I blame it on jet lag and being only 11 years old. Oh well. Thank you for your response.

I live in the USA. When I was 11 years old my family went on holiday to the UK. We took a train from London to Glasgow. I remember at least part of the trip involving a steam locomotive. I recently became interested in steam locomotives after going on an excursion in Ohio that used a beautiful...