Friday, January 20, 2012

Ringling train

On my way to work today several people were discussing the train, I always find it fascinating when people begin talking about the train.  Many people here are train enthusiasts they can tell you anything that you would want to know from the type of engine used to pull the train, to where and when each car was manufactured.  Many of them collect N scale Ringling's Brothers trains and cars.  One of the resident brainiacs on the train took the time to figure out that if you accurately represented our train using N scale it would be 16' long.  When we travel the train is a mile long, when we park we separate the animal and flat cars from the dormitory cars, so it is much shorter when parked.  During this conversation it was also mentioned that on Tuesday both trains were in Jacksonville at the same time. It would have been so cool to get a picture of the Red and Blue tour trains in the same train yard.

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