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Messages - Ted Miles

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Bill,
         Thank you for showing us the clever bit of metal work used to couple the two cars. You had to bend the coupler just right to
make up for the difference in height. That was the part i could not get my head around.

I guess later you guys can change the whole coupler pocket to make a permanent arrangement.

Ted Miles WW&F Member sinc 1989.

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I would like to see a picture and an explanation about how the ballast cars will be coupled up with the Janney couplers on
the museum's trains. Thank you!

Ted Miles WW&F Member

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Other Narrow Gauge / Caledonia, Missippi & Western Railroad 321
« on: October 30, 2024, 07:59:20 PM »
This little 57-mile short line was in Minnesota from 1879 to 1901 when the Milwaukee Road converted it to standard gauge.

It is remembered by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum at Duluth, Minnesota. They have #321 box car; but they do not know who it was built by in 1879. The body of the box car was found by Gary Tufford at Wabasha, Minnosota  around 1970 and he alerted the museum about the body. The body is the oldest railway car in Minnesota. 

Ted Miles who likes narrow gauge railroads

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Work and Events / Re: WW&F No. 11 - Official Work Thread
« on: October 30, 2024, 07:17:51 PM »
Congratulations on completing the fund raising for the year 2024!  And I have a question. If additional dollars come in between now and December 31, 2024; will that money roll over into the 2025 fund raiser? Or will it get sent to another project like the SAR Ballast Cars?

Ted Miles Build 11 Contributor for every year

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Museum Discussion / Re: How did you hear of the W.W. & F. Ry. Museum?
« on: October 05, 2024, 12:05:07 PM »
Since Bruce Wilson asked the question; I have to report he helped me get the back issues of the newsletters; so with his help I now have all of them on paper. By the way, the first years were on legal size paper. Computers are fine but i am an old fashioned hands on person. I have reread those pages and it never fails to impress me about the hard work that the early members were able to accomplish. I belong to three narrow gauge museums and the the WW&F Railway Museum is just outstanding! This old guy can not wait to see the #10 back in steam and the #11 finished!  TM WW&F Life Member since 1989 and Build 11 Contributor   

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Work and Events / Re: Engine House - Official Work Thread
« on: September 07, 2024, 07:53:43 PM »
I am sure that both the locomotives and the people are going to be happy this winter when the air is freezing cold and the ground is covered with snow this winter. Great work everybody who build the Fred Morse Engine House!  TM WW&F Life Member,  Build 11 Contributor, 

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Work and Events / Re: Engine House - Official Work Thread
« on: August 29, 2024, 03:08:07 PM »
Did you guys copy an old design? Or was it something that you made up for this project? I am curious!

Ted Miles, WW &F Member, Build 11 Contributor

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Work and Events / Re: WW&F No. 11 - Official Work Thread
« on: August 12, 2024, 02:04:32 PM »
The Best Friend of Charleston, a pioneering American built locomotive, is long gone but there is a working replica of in her in South Carolina. I forget just where the visitor center is found. I do not believe any one has held the safety valve down up to now.

TM WW&F Member who likes early locomotives.

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It is taking longer than I expected to move the SAR ballast cars and otheer hardware to Alna.
What is slowing things up? I think they will be useful at the next work party.

Ted Miles, Life Member, who is always interested in the WW&F

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Folks,
         The ballast cars appear to have tanks on the two ends. What are they for?

TM WW&F Member likes narrow gauge

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I am glad that they are moving toward Alna! They should be painted and letttered for the SAR. It would be a good talking point for our visitors; that Two-Foot Gauge was used in many places across the world. Maybe someday a flat car from Wales could join our fleet of cars.

Ted Miles WW&F life Member narrow gauge fan

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This may be a dumb question; but why were the WW&F ballast cars unloaded at Edaville?

Should not they have remained in the highway trucks and be delivered all the way to Alna? 

The equipment sure looks impressive! It will do good things on the WW&F Railway. 

Ted Miles WW&F Life Member Build 11 contributor


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Yes, about the April Fools Day comment about Headtide; I think it should be a real effort. The next ageency station would be an excellent stopping place for the railway. It is a destination after all!

Ted Miles WW&F Life Member Built 11 Contributor Archives Contrributor 

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Kennebec Central / About those Links and Pins
« on: June 17, 2024, 12:23:35 PM »
I live in the SF Bay Area; over in Fremont, CA is the Railroad at Ardenwood run by the Society for the Preservation of Carter Brothers Railroad Resources. Until recently, the line was pulled by horses. But they use link and pin couplers to operate this very careful and slow line. I have watched them couple and uncouple the cars. I believe it may be the only place in the country that uses this kind of equipment on the cars from that era. They have just restored their NWP 6101 back to its link and pin period from the later 1930 era. Ted Miles Carter Brothers Society Life Member

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Kennebec Central / Civil War event at the KC
« on: June 17, 2024, 12:08:59 PM »
I think the recent Civil War event which signed the #9 locomotive for the Kennebc Central was the first time she was signed for the Kennebec Central at the museum.  If we recall she was there from 1925 to early 1933, I believe. This makes all of the lines she ran over at various times. That old girl sure got around! Especially if you count the Sandy River seperate from the Sandy river and Rangeley Lakes which used the same tracks.  TM WW&F Member 

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