{"id":388,"date":"2011-09-07T03:12:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T03:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucebramson.com\/2011\/09\/07\/update-number-1-at-m-y-o-b\/"},"modified":"2011-09-07T03:12:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T03:12:07","slug":"update-number-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE NUMBER 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The blog has been moribund for a while, but fortunately, I have not! \u00a0There just does not seem to be a whole lot going on in my life worth writing about, so I don\u2019t. However, I found something (again) recently that amused me.<\/p>\n

Odd things turn up from time to time. In the two photos that follow lie the origins of my life-long interest in steam engines.<\/p>\n

For many years there was a \u201cLilliput Railway\u201d at Fleischacker Zoo in San Francisco. The real steam engine<\/em> and a number of passenger cars ran on a 22\u2033-gauge track at the zoo. A high point of any trip to San Francisco in the 40s was a ride behind \u201cLittle Puffer\u201d: a 1904-05 Cagney Class \u201cE\u201d locomotive.<\/p>\n

On one such occasion my Dad, who then was taking 16-mm movies, captured just a few dozen frames at the very end of a roll of color film. Years later, I had all his movies transfered to VHS.<\/p>\n

Today I ran the show and stopped the action long enough to make these pictures of the resulting screen images:<\/p>\n

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This picture shows the train arriving: the three heads in the foreground are Todd, me, and Rob (l to r).<\/p>\n

(You can only seem the top few inches of my head).<\/p>\n

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In this photo we are seated in the reverse order as the train pulls away.<\/p>\n

At some point, probably in the 60s, the railroad was dismantled and stored. It was re-discovered later and rebuilt by the Golden Gate Railway Museum. It has been in service again for many years and is a popular attraction at the zoo. Pictures of Little Puffer after a 2009 rebuild can be see at here and some clips are available at Youtube here and here. Below are two fine photos by Drew Jacksich.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s all for now: I cannot get calm enough to comment on the present state of politics in the US!<\/p>\n

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NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The blog has been moribund for a while, but fortunately, I have not! \u00a0There just does not seem to be a whole lot going on in my life worth writing about, so I don\u2019t. However, I found something (again) recently that amused me. Odd things turn up from time to time. In the two photos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}