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No More Black Smoke
Concord Monitor ^
| September 3, 2008
| Margot Sanger-Katz
Posted on 09/03/2008 4:35:17 AM PDT by Jim Noble
It's been chugging up Mount Washington for nearly 140 years, with a steam engine powered by coal and trailing black smoke. But those days are over: On Saturday, officials at the Mount Washington Cog Railway will unveil a greener locomotive. The new train, which has yet to be named, will run the railway's historic track on a combination of biodiesel and ordinary diesel fuel.
To celebrate the newest incarnation of "Old Peppersass" - yes, that is the real name of the railroad's first engine - Gov. John Lynch and his wife, Dr. Susan Lynch, will attend the train's send-off at the foot of Mount Washington in Bretton Woods at 11 a.m.
Sparkling wine will be served before the new train climbs the mountain.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: environment; savetheplanet; sparklingwine; transportation
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I'm posting this for the last sentence. How perfect, as a 19th Century technological marvel is thrown away because it makes a little smoke in a wilderness, that sparkling wine will be served.
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posted on
09/03/2008 4:35:17 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
To: Jim Noble
Let's have a contest to name the train...
I say we call it "The Green Machine".
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posted on
09/03/2008 4:36:48 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
To: Jim Noble
These people are nuts, before long they will be building bell jars to place over forest fires.
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posted on
09/03/2008 4:38:11 AM PDT
by
Tarpon
(Three things matter when selecting a President character, character and character.)
To: Jim Noble
If the “Old Man of the Mountain” hadn’t fallen on it’s own, these nutjobs would probably have destroyed it because the granite was emitting too much Radon into the atmosphere. How discouraging to have “leaders” that behave like High School Sophomores.
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posted on
09/03/2008 4:42:30 AM PDT
by
230FMJ
(...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
To: Jim Noble
How perfect, as a 19th Century technological marvel is thrown away because it makes a little smoke in a wilderness, that sparkling wine will be served.Effete watermelons without souls, toasting one anothers' vacuousness.
Mr. niteowl77
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posted on
09/03/2008 4:44:08 AM PDT
by
niteowl77
(If you push too hard, you won't believe what happens next.)
To: Jim Noble
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posted on
09/03/2008 4:45:13 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
To: Tarpon
Another factor may be that the engine needed a complete rebuilding. Boiler explosions do tend to attract such a large number of lawyer, after all.
As to the need to “reduce the smoke”, only sloppy intellectualizing, based upon the premises of enviro-socialism, could have so successfully scraped the bottom of the rationalization barrel.
“What fools the Liberals be.”
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posted on
09/03/2008 4:47:48 AM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
To: Jim Noble
I wonder how much tourist biz will fall off because it’s no longer a noisy, smoke belching, steam locomotive?
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posted on
09/03/2008 4:50:36 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Black dogs and bacon bombs.)
To: 230FMJ
I went to NH years ago to visit a buddy who moved there.
I saw the old man in the mountain and rode the Mt. Washington cog train. Sad to hear that the old man fell off the mountain and the train is being replaced.
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posted on
09/03/2008 5:00:30 AM PDT
by
libs_kma
(NOBAMA. Keep the change)
To: Jim Noble
I thought this thread was about another topic entirely!
(Cue "Puffin' Billy" aka "Captain Kangaroo Theme")
Cheers!
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posted on
09/03/2008 5:02:01 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Rebelbase
"I wonder how much tourist biz will fall off because its no longer a noisy, smoke belching, steam locomotive?"
A lot. Railfan's love the old teapots. Might not want to have thousands of them hauling the freight and smoking up the suburbs, but on a tourist train they are the best. Heck put a wood burner on the run and call it an "Alternative & renewable fuel locomotive ".
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posted on
09/03/2008 5:02:53 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: Jim Noble
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posted on
09/03/2008 5:05:09 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient....then repent.)
To: libs_kma
I’m glad that you got to see New Hampshire before the Old Man fell and the Cog railway “went green”. It’s still a beautiful state, but the influx of Liberals from Massachusetts is changing the character of the state for the worse.
20 years ago I took my youngest daughter on a trip up the Cog Railway. It cost me almost a day’s pay even then, but it was worth every penny.
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posted on
09/03/2008 5:12:21 AM PDT
by
230FMJ
(...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
To: GladesGuru
Another factor may be that the engine needed a complete rebuilding. There are more than one steam locomotive that climb this mountain....3 or 4 IIRC can be on the mountain at one time
Boiler explosions do tend to attract such a large number of lawyer, after all.
From the article it appeares that the new locomotive will still be steam, just not coal fired.
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posted on
09/03/2008 5:15:22 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient....then repent.)
To: Jim Noble
The claim was that God put the Old Man up because he ‘made men’ in New England. I suspect that it came down because it’s no longer true. Just look at the evidence: 1) NH is ‘blue’ with 2 Dims as US Representatives, 2) ‘staunch Catholic’, pro-abortion, ex-Governor Shaheen leads the Dem race to replace current Senator Sunnunu, 3) Gov. Lynch re-elected governor is a virtual clone of Ohio’s Kucinich, 4)NH is rapidly becoming Massachusetts - North with it’s ban on in-door smoking, liberal courts and demands for a state sales tax.
To: CedarDave
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posted on
09/03/2008 5:19:22 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient....then repent.)
To: GladesGuru
The steam locomotives look like antiques but the machinery is rebuilt and not likely to blow up. Luckily I saw 2 engines passing each other on Mt. Washington, both putting out wonderful plumes of smoke a few years ago.
Here's a quote about Steamtown in Bellows Falls, VT:
Then, in 1970, Vermont passed air quality regulations which prohibited steam operations. Diesel locomotives were then used on Steamtown excursions, however, ridership fell dramatically.
To: 230FMJ
My friend married a girl from Keene and he and I used to joke that he found one of the last conservatives left in NH.
It's a damn shame that Vermont and NH are filled with so many stinking liberals, because that's some beautiful country you have there.
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posted on
09/03/2008 5:34:18 AM PDT
by
libs_kma
(NOBAMA. Keep the change)
To: hellbender
The soot and sulfur smell were part of the experience of riding the cog railway as much as the jerky motion. I've ridden to the summit three times and though I had no plans of returning, I still find this sad.
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posted on
09/03/2008 5:35:31 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient....then repent.)
To: Jim Noble
Tar and feather the commies!
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posted on
09/03/2008 5:37:28 AM PDT
by
rrrod
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