Now I'm the proud new owner of a marx/hafner Canadian Jubilee.
The auction came with fine track and lovely tin freights. Yay! now payday I think I can get me a nice transformer and some more switches/track. I'm on my way to building the Mudturtle Bend and Hide-Behind Creek Railroad. MB&HBC RR which I think will have a nice big castle, and a twinkie mine and some iron works... LOL.
Once upon a time there was a brilliant inventor in Revolutionary America. He invented a steam ship, and tried to sell President Washington on the idea of a steam powered railroad, which he built a miniature working model of. His name ought to be remembered for his many ground breaking ideas and efforts. sadly he is forgotten. His image is painted in the Capitol.
I don't specifically remember a lot about the year 1976, but I DO remember we were living on Ft. Eustis, Virginia, and that we went to see a reinactment, I think of Yorktown, with soldiers in tricornes. also we boarded the "Freedom Train"...I don't remember what we saw ON the train...but I sure do remember how massive that locomotive seemed with it's enormous silver smokebox door...like a dragon of iron.
So, New York Central built the worlds first electric locomotive the S class, a natural for Ives and Girard to model in the opening decades of the 20th century.
Old English Trade names and descriptions
These nouns are mostly old English, mixed with some German, French and Latin.
Should be good for folks doing research in the British islands.
TRADES
Accomptant - accountant
Accoucheur - man who acts as a midwife
Accoucheuse - midwife
Administatrix( plural trices) - female administrator
Almoner - giver of charity (alms) to the needy, a household chaplain
Amanuen(sis) - secretary or stenographer
Aquarius - ewer; waterman
