Memorial Day Weekend Photo Fun


Here's my little bandwidth buster,

We went to the East Lancashire Railway wartime weekend event today, everyone was dressed in 1940's clothing with suitable transport to fit the era as well, the millitary was represented in force with troops from the UK, USA, Canada and of course Germany, the highlight of the day was the storming of Rawtenstall station by the UK and Allied troops to take it back from the German forces, it was a very spectacular and loud battle with casualties on both side's but we took the station back and got some German prisoners.
it is a good way of showing the younger generation what our fellow countrymen did for there country during WW2


below is our transport to the event in the form of an 0-6-0 tank engine and
0-6-0 saddle tank engine
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below is the 9f 2-10-0, i have worked on this locomotive, it's awsome
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Below is the midway point, Ramsbottom station
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and Rawtenstall station basking in glourious sunshine, 10 min's earlier it was pouring down and hailstoning
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below the allied troops taking the station
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below, some poor guys got shot by the german machine gunners, the medics ready to do his part
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and taking ground fast with victory in sight
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below, one for the Canadians RCAF willy's jeep
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and my boys with the American troop carriers in a downpour
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This was one scary woman, she should have been at the front of the assault on the station
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Josh we had four loco's in steam today but could have had eight if they were not on main line excursions
 
Well, no pics from me. Not a long weekend here either.

But I've come across this and I thought I would share it here...

A Memorial Day Worth Remembering

Andy Rooney On How Memorial Day Should Be Celebrated

May 28, 2006

CBS) This segment was originally broadcast on May 29, 2005.

The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News Correspondent Andy Rooney.
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Tomorrow is Memorial Day, the day we have set aside to honor by remembering all the Americans who have died fighting for the thing we like the most about our America: the freedom we have to live as we please.

No official day to remember is adequate for something like that. It's too formal. It gets to be just another day on the calendar. No one would know from Memorial Day that Richie M., who was shot through the forehead coming onto Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, wore different color socks on each foot because he thought it brought him good luck.

No one would remember on Memorial Day that Eddie G. had promised to marry Julie W. the day after he got home from the war, but didn’t marry Julie because he never came home from the war. Eddie was shot dead on an un-American desert island, Iwo Jima.

For too many Americans, Memorial Day has become just another day off. There's only so much time any of us can spend remembering those we loved who have died, but the men, boys really, who died in our wars deserve at least a few moments of reflection during which we consider what they did for us.

They died.

We use the phrase "gave their lives," but they didn’t give their lives. Their lives were taken from them.

There is more bravery at war than in peace, and it seems wrong that we have so often saved this virtue to use for our least noble activity - war. The goal of war is to cause death to other people.

Because I was in the Army during World War II, I have more to remember on Memorial Day than most of you. I had good friends who were killed.

Charley Wood wrote poetry in high school. He was killed when his Piper Cub was shot down while he was flying as a spotter for the artillery.

Bob O'Connor went down in flames in his B17.

Obie Slingerland and I were best friends and co-captains of our high school football team. Obie was killed on the deck of the Saratoga when a bomb that hadn’t dropped exploded as he landed.

I won’t think of them anymore tomorrow, Memorial Day, than I think of them any other day of my life.

Remembering doesn’t do the remembered any good, of course. It's for ourselves, the living. I wish we could dedicate Memorial Day, not to the memory of those who have died at war, but to the idea of saving the lives of the young people who are going to die in the future if we don’t find some new way - some new religion maybe - that takes war out of our lives.

That would be a Memorial Day worth celebrating.



Written By Andy Roone
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Hi gang,

Lots of great photos and videos (I'm nowhere near that point yet!), so many outstanding entries I don't have time to comment on each individually -I'm fixing to leave for a Memorial Day cookout in a few minutes.

Anyhow, here's a little something I did about 2 weeks ago but didn't have time to shoot and post. It's a Walthers 'backdrop' building. Don't let the pretty pics in the Walthers catalog fool you, it takes a long time to paint all the concrete trim.

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Gappleg that is a helluva layout ya got there... LOTS of great interior detail. Im guessing its lighted for nightime action? Sweet!
 
There is some lighting here and there, more to do, I kinda love doing the detailing around the layout, but it takes a lot of time, still lots to do. All the street lights work of course, lights in the yard and over the transfer table. The sign on the diner flashes on and off. The hotel and the white castle is lite. I need time and seems it just slips away.
 
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