Grasse River Railroad-8mm Film footage

[@Caseysks]

It’s nice someone preserved some footage of my family’s railroad

[@oldenweery7510]

I suppose the natives (mis)pronounce it "grassy," though a pronouncing gazetteer, citing the origin as "US," says "grassy." I immediately recognized the log cars and caboose from the HO scale kits produced by Model Engineering Works in the '50s and '60s and in O scale by others at a later date. I had log cars and the GE 44-ton center cab Diesel as a kid. That little Mogul steamer is right up my alley!

[@1WMHILL]

Nobody local or "native" calls it grassY- it's always "grass" to us.

[@oldenweery7510]

@@1WMHILL That's good news. I wonder where the Pronouncing Gazetteer got their information? Maybe some elderly guy sitting on his front porch, a guy who's worked hard since he was 12 or 14, was approached by some knucklehead with a clipboard and asked the dumb question, so the guy gave him a dumb answer. I've been rereading my favorite railroad novels and it's hard to believe writers who're working with subjects he knows little about doesn't check with the real experts! In one book, the author has the youth, who comes from a railroad family and has been crazy for trains, particularly steam locomotives, all his life forego Whyte's classification. He refers to a Mogul as a locomotive with "one pilot wheel and three driving wheels _to the side!"_ (Worse yet, in a nonfiction book about the Santa Fe, and author calls a Ten-wheeler a "ooOOO" in print. Yikes!) Pardon me while I go mow the "grassy." Stay safe.

[@luketansiongco3953]

0:48 The background noise reminds me of UP 3985's whistle