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Dispatch 8g

The B & O Railroad Museum

4 Aug 2012

This is a cutaway model of the turntable.Look closely at the little guy in the hatch door on far left. One man can push the fully loaded turntable around by muscle power.

From the Giant to the Miniature

Model trains are a passion for some and there was a nice set up in one of the cars. It had working stoplights on the streets and so forth. Behind glass it was hard to photograph in a confined space. Below you can also see the controller.

Back to an even bigger Giant

Here I am next to an Allegheny locomotive. The most powerful steamer ever built, 7,500 HP. Only two were built near the end of the age of steam, one is in the Henry Ford Museum and one here.

It's so long I could hardly get a photo in the confined space between displays. The front part is shown below.

After the Electronics Museum Paul and I stopped at the B & O Rail Museum.

Lots of (you guessed it) trains on display. Below is an area called the roundhouse. There is a turntable in the center that can rotate a locomotive by one man pushing. This is how they park the display models around the turntable.

You might think this museum was not very interactive BUT in fact they DID let Paul actually drive one of the trains!

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We drove the Allegheny (in our dreams), Paul at right side, me at the left.

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Hangin' out in Mt Airy MD and visiting Fred

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