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  Happy New Year Eve Everyone!  Last Post of 2022 here on the Steam Train History Blog. As there are 15 hours left to 2022 (From the time this post is published to midnight), I want to share some moments here on the blog along with some other brief news that will be occurring at the start of 2023. So lets get into it!!! My New Year Resolution: Here a couple of my New Year resolutions. You'll get to see more on Sunday. Little bit of Improvement on my team player skill  Completing my creative Writing Project by April 28th to start a summer writing creative project on June 1st ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ First off Moments from 2022: Main Blog Series Opinion & Answer 2022 Editions  2022  Results The Opinion & Answer 2022 Editions ended on December 9nd, 2022 with Part 26 . I do hope everyone enjoyed the 26 Opinion & Answer 2022 Editions.  Steam Train Posts 202...

Happy Holiday 2022-Conductor Wolf   Happy Holidays to all Its Conductor Wolf, Author of Steam History Blog. Wishing everyone a happy holidays and for those who do, Merry Christmas to those who celebrate the holiday. As we wind down the 2022, I just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a happy holiday today.   Fun fact for those who live in United States:  North American Aerospace Defense Command-NORAD NORAD’s holiday tradition began in 1955 after a kid mistakenly called a Colorado military command asking to speak to Santa. More calls came in so the commander on duty assigned an officer to answer the Santa calls, and the tradition took hold. Please note the following belongs to me as this is a holiday theme poem I made:   12 days leading up to Christmas 12 days out from Christmas, I put up the Christmas tree  11 days out from Christmas,I decorated the tree with Christmas ordinates  10 days out from Christmas, I decorated the room with Christmas ligh...

  Happy Saturday,  My name is Conductor Wolf, and on today's edition we shine a light on some feline Christmas folktale & Christmas Stories as it is Christmas Eve.  So let's get on wit the edition but first a quick note down below: note: I'm only going to do a summary as there will be a link to read the entire article for the folklore section while only naming the titles for the Christmas stories. So on with the post! Christmas Folklore: Iceland Iceland's Terrifying Christmas Yule Cat is like many other folklore where their origins lie in distant, interwoven timelines.  Through  the ancient tales of troll cats and familiars, the Icelandic Yule Cat as we all/might know him/her today  had arrived in 1932 through the medium of print. Jólin koma, meaning ‘Christmas is Coming’, by poet, author and erstwhile politician, Jóhannes úr Kötlum, includes a poem entitled Jólakötturinn, or The Christmas Cat.  Every year since the folklore had...

Hi, Everyone As it is the end of the work week & start of the weekend, I wanted to share some felines who work the front line with their first responders counterparts. Below are felines who work with the fire,law enforcement, Emergency Medical Services and a dispatcher: Firefighter-Flame the Arson Cat Police officer-Captain the police cat  Emergency Medical Service responder-Killier the station 57 cat  Dispatcher Tigger     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIRE SERVICE : Flame the Arson Cat  Flame the Arson Cat From the fire service community, their first furry companion I chose was a ginger & white cat from Greenville, South Carolina named "Flame" the Arson cat who lives at the Belmont Fire Department. He just showed up at the firehouse one day and fell in love with the members of Belmont Fire Department.  Find out more via the following links below ...

Happy Wednesday everyone.   Please note: This doesn't have anything pertaining to railroad but wanted to share as this is the month of December which is the month of cat from what I researched anyway about December and cats.  I just found this article about a very interesting cat who had an interesting thanksgiving occurring to the article's publication. The cat known as "Smells" had an interesting trip from New York state to Florida.    According to the article, "Air travel around the holidays can be stressful, just ask Smells." which I would agree after an interesting trip Smells had after being trapped in a check in bag. Well it shows one fact that we can all agree on, Air travel is certainly stressful during the holiday times as we've seen by Smells. Luckily Smells is doing ok according to the article.   To read the article, click the link below:   Feline Feast: Cat Found at JFK Gets Holiday Meal After Jumping in Checked Bag-NBC CT article

Dirt the Nevada East Ely Railway Maintenance Cat   Hi All,  Happy Monday, to start off the week I wanted to spotlight Dirt who works at the East Ely Railway Maintenance Cat. I'll give brief points about Dirt with a link to the source down below.   He was born there 13-years ago to a stray cat that wandered in. His mom had her kittens under one of our trains, and a 1907 built rotary snowplow to be exact. After his mom and the other kittens left, this one beautiful cat was all alone but scared to come out. Took a can of tuna to bring out the little kitten and was able to warm up to the crews.  From the article: "The adorable cat loved rolling around on the dirt floors of the engine house and climb all over the coal pines on our steam-powered train, so the crews named him Dirt. The name stuck as did the coal: “The cat’s fur pattern is actually white and orange, but because at a young age he started rolling in the dirt and climbing on the trains, his white fur gets ...

Ashburton Junction Box   Hi All,  First off, hope everyone is having a good Sunday Evening. I've decided to continue my station cat series with a change which is now that I cover 10 station cats, I've switch to signal box cats and other railway cats for the rest of the month. Below will be the name of the signal boxes with their cats today and will have to look them up as they are all real.  Railway Signal Boxes-Cats   Rochdale, England, United Kingdom Rochdale Signal box- Cat name Kipper acquired Kipper in July 1989 who died in 2008 from illness  Manchester, England, United Kingdom Baguley Fold  Junction signal box-Cat name Nelson Crowhill, Tameside Metropolitan Borough, England Ashton Moss North Signal Box-Cat name Amoss Diggle, Saddleworth, England Diggle Junction Box- Cat name Sewlyn Miles Platting, Manchester, England Brewery Sidings Signal Box- Cat name Marmalade  Marmalade: resident signal-box cat at BREWERY SIDINGS when David Ing...

  Gizmo Hi, All I originally planned to end the station cat mini series yesterday but after some thinking, I decided to extend the series two more days. The reason is on the grounds of not ending a series on a Thursday when there is 7 days in a week and wanted to end the series on a Saturday instead of Thursday as a way to start off the weekend on a positive note. So today's station cat mini series bonus #1 is on Gizmo at the Bluebell Railway in Sussex, England.   So on today's special trip we take a trip from Virginia, United State and travel across the Atlantic ocean to Sussex,England to visit the Bluebell Railway to see Gizmo who has an interesting story with the Sussex train station.  Please note: I'll briefly discuss the story as you can read the full content on the website linked below under "Links" to enjoy and support.   Gizmo (picture to the left and above) is a cat with a possible unique story to get a spotlight in my series. The reason is that th...

Chessie-Cheseapeake & Ohio Railroad Mascot On today's trip we take another trip out of England from leaving Liverpool, England and travel across the Atlantic ocean to the United States to visit the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad society in Clifton Forge VA to learned about Chessie the feline mascot of C&O.  As we come to today's feline spotlight, we have covered: Tama in Japan  Felix & Bolt at Huddersfield train station in Yorkshire, England Hector at  Redruth Train Station Cat in Cornwall, England  Jess at Andover train station in Hampshire, England.  Stan the Charlbury Train Station Cat.  Hi-Vis the Inverness Train Station (Scotland) Paul: South Parkway Station (Liverpool) Note: This post will contain my own though of Chessie with link to the researched site down below at the end. This is my own thoughts so please be patient with me on this post.  The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad,  had one of the most successful...

  Tama on Duty July 2011 Greetings all,  Welcome to the first of my 8 part mini series. This is my first of two Winter edition mini series for the month of December to end 2022. This mini series is named "Station Cat" where I focus on eight different felines that are from Japan, seven felines from United Kingdom and one feline from the United States. To start off my Station Cat mini series, we travel to Japan to learn about Tama who was the Station Master at Kishi Station in Japan. Links will be provided below at the end. So lets get on with learning about Tama.  Please note: This is my notes that I wanted to share. 🐈 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tama was part of a line of the feline station master who saved the Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line of the Wakayama Electric Railway. Tama was adopted by Koyama around the time the time the Kishi Station was nearly closed in 2004...