Well guys the weekend is almost over but I had one more post just for fun. Here is the back story...The Leonardtown and Savannah (L&S) like most of the wartime railroads continues to press its existing equipment to the max to make up "extra" trains to handle war time freight and passenger loads. Serving the key port of Savannah, the L&S struggles especially to cover getting the war workforce from the outer suburbs to the port for critical war work in the plants surrounding the port. Today, management is nearly at the end of its rope...and have dragged out of the yard "old faithful" , a Commodore Vanderbilt engine from the 1920's who has definitely seen better days (like most L&S motive power she was not new when she got here!) . She got mated with a pair of ancient coaches, non-air conditioned in the Georgia summer heat (as you can tell by the open windows) . Old Joe our engineer will do his best but the CV is tired, needs new tubes, and could use a bath and paint, None of which is going to happen. She is one step from the scrap line, willing and hard working, but suffering from old age.
Hope you enjoy my silly stories, I do have fun thinking them up !!
Don
