Orange Empire Railway Museum Special Photo Ops
Jan 10, 2015 18:11:02 #
Fergus wrote:
I think I've got it. Steam punk refers to a genre which influences style. I would never have known.
You are getting there. They dress up etc. My daughter is into "cosplaying" (costume playing) dressing up as characters in Anime, Manga and on line video games. Many of her friends are also into steampunk, they sort of associate with each other, make costumes and props etc. When I said "Oh, re-enactors." she snapped back: "Those are old guys pretending to be in the Civil War."
Get a 19th century or Victorian era dress (pants and coat for a man) and add a hat or bonnet with a funky looking set of goggles and you are at the beginning level of steam punk dress.
Leave off the goggles and you can take part in a Dickens festival.
Jan 10, 2015 18:42:51 #
Do you do the SteamPunk thing? I think your bear ought to go SteamPunk! Think about it....different hat, a tie and some goggles!
Jan 10, 2015 19:49:58 #
Fergus wrote:
Do you do the SteamPunk thing? I think your bear ought to go SteamPunk! Think about it....different hat, a tie and some goggles!
The steam punkers accept our traditional conductors "penguin suit" uniform as fitting in. Some of the operations people have added goggles to their conductors hat or wear a black top hat or bowler in place of the traditional billed conductor's cap. The steam crew just add a hat and maybe goggles since one steam punk style is 19th century workman's clothing or overalls with accessories like heavy black smith's gloves.
Jan 11, 2015 06:31:13 #
Jan 11, 2015 08:11:51 #
robertjerl wrote:
The 17th and 18th OERM (located in Perris, Ca Rive... (show quote)
I lived 38 years in Lake Elsinore so am very familiar with this. I highly recommend it. Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention.
Jan 11, 2015 09:20:27 #
This reminds me of the Illinois Railroad Museum. And for some interesting train photography, look up O. Winston Link.
Jan 11, 2015 09:39:23 #
robertjerl wrote:
The 17th and 18th OERM (located in Perris, Ca Rive... (show quote)
Nice Photo robertje. Did I ever tell you I own a Santa Fe Prairie Locomotive? Of course it's a HO model but easier to store. Looks just like mine, only about 87 times larger. :lol: :lol: :wink: :wink: :wink:
Jan 11, 2015 10:07:22 #
What a fantastic set of photos. Love old steam trains. Thank you and the organization for posting. Cheers.
Jan 11, 2015 11:28:19 #
Nice, Robert! I had a brass prairie that I was almost finished with when one of my boys stole it and sold it for drugs.
Jan 11, 2015 11:53:43 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Excellent! I may very well see you there. Which day is less crowded?
I took these in July of 2013. I don't remember paying to get in and a volunteer, who's name I forget, took Eric and me to all the buildings and let us photograph as long as we liked. He also gave us the history of everything there. The only building he couldn't let us into was a storage building where the store parts and pieces.
Jan 11, 2015 14:21:31 #
Jan 11, 2015 14:24:30 #
Ralloh wrote:
I lived 38 years in Lake Elsinore so am very familiar with this. I highly recommend it. Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention.
When did you leave Elsinore?
The museum has changed greatly in the last decade. Lots of building projects and upgrades.
Jan 11, 2015 14:25:26 #
abc1234 wrote:
This reminds me of the Illinois Railroad Museum. And for some interesting train photography, look up O. Winston Link.
Thank you for looking and the suggestion.
Jan 11, 2015 14:34:18 #
Dick Z. wrote:
Nice Photo robertje. Did I ever tell you I own a Santa Fe Prairie Locomotive? Of course it's a HO model but easier to store. Looks just like mine, only about 87 times larger. :lol: :lol: :wink: :wink: :wink:
Probably costs less to run also.
To the best of my knowledge two of the locomotives in our collection have been released as HO models. Both Southern Pacific; #1474 Alco S-12 switcher and #3100 GE U25-B road switcher (as an HO this one is in it's 1976 bicentenial red, white and blue with a special number for that year - we have it restored to it's working colors)
Jan 11, 2015 14:35:09 #
flathead27ford wrote:
What a fantastic set of photos. Love old steam trains. Thank you and the organization for posting. Cheers.
Thanks for the kind words.
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