Richard Jernigan -> RE: Flying Scotsman (May 26 2017 23:00:26)
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Nice shot Simon. Around age eleven I began to build HO scale railroad models, kept it up for 3 or 4 years. Only built American locomotives... In America we knew of the Flying Scotsman, but I never got a ride. Some of my older relatives did though, while it was still in regular service. When I began to travel by myself in Mexico at age 17 steam locomotives were still used on some of the routes, for example Mexico City to Uruapan.Then it was 30 km by road to Paracho to buy guitars. I hired a taxi for the day for 20 pesos, then worth $1.60. By 1955 the main passenger lines, Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City, Mexico City to Guadalajara, etc. were powered by diesel-electric locomotives, built in the Ferrocarriles Nacionales factory in Mexico City. Purchasing WW II surplus equipment in 1946, my father and his partner acquired an American diesel-electric, sold it to interests in Nicaragua, hired a driver and a mechanic, and drove it from San Antonio to Managua. I heard many tales of the adventure. RNJ
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