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Looks to be a fun one here.
As a former Totalbiscuit viewer, the thought of getting to peek into the mind of a Scot who's brutally honest and not afraid to dish out the insults is one that sounds quite entertaining. I'm sure he's got more than just his mind working in his defence, though... the money he's making being just the start.
You've caught my interest
and I like the characters involved. Well, except for Adam.
Coincidences...
1) I’m north, rather than south, Glaswegian, but still...
2) I went to school with a boy called..... Gordon McCleish!
3) I now live in York, which hosts the UK’s National Railway Museum. Probably the best of its kind in the world, and it’s free.
4) I’m also a train nut, have been all my life.
If you ever want a guided tour of the NRM, Samantha, I'd be delighted to show you around. It would be a meagre return for all the pleasure that your stories have given over the years.
Rob. x
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Thanks Rob
I nearly booked a Steam Trip to York today but decided on going to Cardiff and Steam through the Severn Tunnel (Tornado at the front).
I went to Shildon in early September but havn't been to York since all the A4's were there. If I'm up that way, I'll send you a message.
Thanks for the offer.
Samantha
Very nice museum and good
Very nice museum and good collection in an almost authentic rail depot setting...
Also visited very interesting railway museum near Nottingham... Some 25 years ago. And it is getting mixed up with some other trips in the area as in my memory "last cast iron bridge on a railway" was also there. While google and wikipedia say that it is Nene Viaduct in Peterborough. And the picture matches my memories. Are there any running steam trains around Peterborough?
Steam around Peterborough
The 'Nene Valley Railway' perhaps?
https://www.nvr.org.uk/
Samantha
Trains
Please add me to the list of rail fans. The B&O RR museum in Maryland is very nice, and we read Thomas the Tank Engine stories to our kids when they were little. Duck is my favorite.
Janice
Looks like it!
Thanks!
Now I have another pin on my map in the "to visit" list. I will time it so there will be something steamy going on for my visit. Last time I had no opportunity to ride anything.
An intresting start
Like to see where this goes. I am intrigued especially aster I got to see the Union Pasific 4-6-6-4 Challenger AND the 4-8-8-4 Big Boy (worlds largest & heavest steam locomotive ever built & opperating today). I am wondering if Gordon is just a CD or something more? I like where this is going so far.
Love Samantha Renée Heart.
What a wonderful woman!
And named Maureen to boot! God, I wish I'd meet someone like her one of these days!
I think Gordon needs to ask her to come to the UK with him *giggles*
Nice story so far, Samantha.
Monique.
Monique S
Expect no less
Samantha sets the stage, when the movie starts the scene, the setting is there. Her actors and actresses are included in that first shot or shortly introduced. The dialog (speaking parts) come in on cue then or delayed to the full effect of whisking her audience (readers) into the story with the characters. Not in only Sam's stories but every story from every writer their is a delicate balance between descriptive and speaking. Too much or too little of one or the other at the right time degrades the story. Sam nails it perfectly time and time again with each of her stories she shares.
I wish "it" could and glad it can't be pulled out of her like drawing blood and inoculated into others. It certainly can't be taught. We can tell others how it is cone but it has to be in the writer. It's a gift.
hugs Samantha
always
Barb
Life is a one way trip. Don't waste it looking back wishing.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Snowplow Extra
A great rail story at:
http://spearfishlaketales.com/02sx/sx.htm
"In the middle of the worst snowstorm of the decade, the whole town was burning down. The only hope lay on two rusty steel rails . . . Nonstop action and adventure – no sex or violence as railroad workers and firemen struggle against fire, storm, and failing equipment to relieve an isolated northwoods town."
And the railroad played a small part at the end of:
http://spearfishlaketales.com/42bhf/bhf.htm
Great stories from Wes, RIP.
Snow, Railroad
Excellent writing. One would need to be addicted to railroad everything to read the story from start to finish. I'm not being disparaging about the excellent writing skills of the author nor his attention to detail laying out the story line in descriptive language if one isn't dragged into a raging snowstorm they have zero imagination. The descriptions of the engines, the railroad cars, the couplers, the air lines, he didn't get all that from reading a how to on railroading. He has been there, done that and in the story takes the reader for a hands on experience.
The story was a little too close to home as I've been out in those blizzards. When I finally made it back to the house I couldn't take my clothes off until they thawed out. They were frozen stiff with ice. On the other end of all that, two weeks ago NW Oklahoma was burning up as a fire raged across the grasslands pushed by sixty MPH winds. A lot of Moreland was lost as the fire raged through town. Scared me to death even though it was sixty miles away. With those winds it could be one my door step in a little over an hour. Last year Texs Panhandle had one rages across forty miles taking out livestock, homes, barns, farm-ranch equipment. Eight years ago one started at Erick and went for twenty miles before they got it under control. A blizzard or fire pushed by high winds means pain, suffering, death, loss no matter where or when it happens.
The story is too close to home for me. Excellent writing skills but...
always,
Barb
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
you've pretty much described
you've pretty much described what goes through most people's minds when they get asked out for a date, can I trust them everyone has their own Gremlins for that question, it just gets a little worse when you have something you don't want made public.
great story so far.
Life and art, fact and fiction.
How Jessie became Thomas and back to Jessie again
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/remember-j...
Thanks for that
I visited the P&B Rly last June. It was a very, very, very wet day. I need to go back sometime when it is dryer.
Samantha
Great Story
I thought I'd share this picture
Picture is from the
website (click on the Nene Valley Railway logo for their main site and the Thomas picture for their Thomas page.)
Message for Manic Racer
That steam railway near Nottingham is probably the Great Central near Loughborough. Bigger and better since you last visit.
I live 40 minutes from the North York Moors Railway, also steam hauled and spectacular, running through to the glorious and ancient seaside town of Whitby in the summer.
And Samantha, I came up for the Great Gathering Of A4s in 2013 too, just before I moved to York from Cambridge.
Rob
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Thanks!
"Places to visit" list grows! Have to start planning my next vacation!
Lucky, Lucky,
To be a girl, and get the girl too.
Romance dead, not
To be able to earn that much on the stock market a person has to be a real sharp cooky. It has nothing with education, though that will help, but because the person understands what to look for when it's time to buy or sell.
Gordan being outed when younger is partly the reason he keeps to himself. The other reason he told to Maureen, which is sad because people could learn a lot from him had they had the brains to treat him as they want to be treated. As a result, they lose out on his knowledge and experience. Knowledge and experience that's gained a boat load for the bank.
That bank really should try and keep Gordan in its employ, unless they have another trader that earns as much or more. Yet, business is business so Gordan's welfare is of no interest to the bank. Of course, if the bank kept Gordan longer in NY he and Maureen could get to know each other better. Though he wouldn't get to continue his work on Lucy.
There is a solution to their problem, if Maureen is up for it. She could move to Scotland with Gordan, or where he actually lives. It would be a big change for her and Luke, but they could be together without the fear of being fired.
Speaking of which, that couple that were fired because they became a couple could take that bank to the cleaner for the reason the couple was fired. It's called discrimination.
Gordan's secret would indeed get him fired if it became known. At some point Maureen may insist on seeing him dressed as a woman, and might try using the threat to out him as leverage to get what she wants. And to give him what she wants to give him.
Others have feelings too.
There is such a thing as Burn Out
That's what Gordon is feeling. He's made his money and is done with business. There are a good number of former traders like him who have left their really lucrative jobs and started again doing something totally different. Gordon is planning to leave before all this happens.
A lot of the points you raise are covered in the other parts of the story already published. The final pieces to the jigsaw will become clear in the final part of the story which will be published soon.
Samantha
Very good start
Given the lack of keywords, I didn't know what to expect. But I have to say it has really grabbed me and I'm going to jump into the next chapter asap. Love the characters, but I sure would like to know more about the Niemann Marcus dress!
>>> Kay