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RHDR No.12 John Southland, waiting at Dungeness Station.
BO BO, 112bhp, 6-cylinder mainline diesel locomotive
Designed by RH&DR
Built by TMA Engineering in 1983
Engine: Perkins 6 cylinder diesel
Power rating: 112hp
Overall length: 20'
Bogie wheel diameter: 16"
Drive: Twin disc gearbox and torque converter to prop shaft driven worm boxes on each axle.
Current Livery: Black and Yellow
Captain Howey had often experimented with alternatives to steam in order to make the winter timetable more economical, and in 1929 the Theakston-Ford petrol locomotive appeared for its brief life on the Railway. Then in 1931, Howey converted his 1914 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost into a locomotive that survived until 1961.
After running trials with the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railways locomotive, Shelagh of Eskdale the RH&DR duly ordered their own mainline diesel. The cost was partly met by the local district council, as the new engine was going to make the operating of the school train a more economic affair, than the currently steam hauled operation.
Indeed, No.12 is named after the man that gives his name to the very school that the line hauls children to and from every term day, and who gave the first local educational bequest in 1610.
In 1990, John Southland spent the summer on the railway at the Liverpool Garden Festival.
Since arriving on the RH&DR, John Southland has helped to ease the burden placed on the fleet of steam locomotives, that have been in action for over seventy years in most cases.
The locomotive was overhauled in 1999, and emerged from the workshops resplendant in a new black and yellow livery (reminiscent of the Rio Grande Railway), that replaced the original maroon and cream livery.
The Romney's first main-line diesel is often seen hauling the permanent way train and performing other essential maintenance tasks, as well as some passenger train duties.
RD11822. As well as the famous 15 inch gauge Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway at New Romney in Kent, there is also a large and impressive model railway exhibition above the café at New Romney Station which is well worth a visit.
Amongst the locos 'on shed' are a couple of Motorail Simplexes, an LNER A4 Pacific, Captain Howey's rail mounted Rolls Royce and a pair of RH&DR Pacifics - WINSTON CHURCHILL and DR. SYN. All running on H0 / 00 16.5mm gauge track!
Monday, 10th August, 2015. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
RHDR No.1 Green Goddess, heading south , now on the Balloon Loop approaching Dungeness Station.
GN outline two-cylinder 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive
Designed by Henry Greenly
Built by Davey Paxman & Co., (15469) in 1925
Overall length: 27' 7"
Weight in working order: 8 ton 10cwt
Driving wheel diameter: 2' 1.5"
Bogie and trailing wheel diameter: 1'
Cylinders: 5.25" x 8.5"
Current Livery: LNER Apple Green
One of two locomotives ordered in 1924 by Count Louis Zborowski, Captain Howey's original partner, and designed by Henry Greenly.
Greenly based them on Nigel Gresley's famous A1 class locomotives of the London & North Eastern Railway, of which the Flying Scotsman is a surviving example. Green Goddess and tender cost £1,250 to build. The name of the locomotive was apparently taken from one of Howey's favourite plays.
She was ready long before the railway, so Howey arranged for her to be tested on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in Cumbria during 1925. Following this, and while the line was under construction, Howey tried to whet the appetite of the local people by displaying the loco at Binns Garage in New Romney.
She has always been seen sporting a livery of green, and since the war has sported two new high capacity tenders. The second of these now belongs to Northern Chief, the first has been re-united with Green Goddess.
Green Goddess caries a Wilcox chime whistle and George Barlow was her driver for over thirty years from 1947.
She currently runs in an Apple Green livery similar to that of the former Great Northern Railway. Having been built in 1925, the year 2000 saw this fine engine celebrate its 75th birthday.
Now, a new DVD — RH&DR 2006 — which features footage from an exciting year in the history of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway: the return of the Bug from overhaul, 2006 gala, installation of barriers at crossings and more.
Green Goddess is now back in service following a major overhaul, returning to traffic on Saturday June 13th 2009.
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Mingle Media TV's Red Carpet Report host Ashley Bornancin were invited to come out to cover the Friends of the Saban Community Clinic's 37th Annual Dinner Gala at the Beverly Hilton.
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“House of Lies” costars Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell hosted this year's Friends of the Saban Community Clinic 37th Annual Dinner Gala with a musical performance by The Fray and comedy by Sarah Silverman. The star-studded event honored Showtime Networks Inc. President of Entertainment David Nevins and Friends of the Saban Community Clinic Board Member Eric Siegel. Nevins and Siegel received the Friends Leadership Award and Lenny Somberg Award for their leadership and support of the Clinic’s work in improving health care access for thousands of Los Angeles families each year.
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Saban Community Clinic first opened its doors in 1967 as The Los Angeles Free Clinic. As a Federally Qualified Health Center, Saban Community Clinic serves low-income and uninsured men, women, and children, providing more than 100,000 patient visits each year. Our three health centers, located in the Los Angeles and West Hollywood areas, provide affordable access to quality medical, dental and mental health services. To make a charitable contribution, call (323) 330-1670. For appointments, call (323) 653-1990 or visitwww.sabancommunityclinic.org.
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"Typhoon" being prepared for the days work at New Romney station on the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in Kent UK.
Located steps away from Manhattan’s West Side Highway with a view of the Hudson River and in the distance the New Jersey waterfront, it is easy to miss this architectural oddity as cars zoom down the highway leaving local foot traffic as the best way to get there. Please visit my Website for more of my work. www.J-RiveraPhotography.com
Le Mans Classic 2012
Châssis : XKC 004
première voiture de production
1952 - Ile de Man et Orporto
1952 - Boreham et Turnberry -2e derrière
Pilotes : Strilling Moss
1953 Orporto accident , reconstruit et vendu à Jack Howey
n°8 Plateau-2
Nigel Webb
Steve Howey speaking at the 2023 WonderCon, for "True Lies", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida
William John Howey was born on January 19, 1876 in Odin, Illinois. At age 16, he began selling insurance and by 1900 began developing land and towns for the railroad in Oklahoma.
Howey perfected his citrus farming and sales program techniques in the Winter Haven, Florida area. In 1914, Howey began buying land in Lake County for $8 to $10 per acre and sold it for $800 to $ 2,000 per acre after it was cleared and planted with 48 citrus trees per acre.
The Florida Land Boom tripled Howey's enterprises. To celebrate the completion of his 20-room, 7,200 square foot Howey Mansion in 1927, he hosted the entire New York Civic Opera Company of 100 artists, drawing a crowd of 15,000 arriving in 4,000 automobiles to the free outdoor performance.
The Mansion was built in Mediterranean Revival style at a cost of $250,000 (in 1926 non-inflated dollars), is presently in private ownership, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Howey ran unsuccessfully as a Republican Candidate for Governor in 1928 and 1932 and though his dreams were never fully realized, he was known as Florida's greatest citrus developer when he died of a heart attack in Umatilla, Florida on June 7, 1938 at the age of 62.
Grace (his wife) died at age 92 on December 18, 1981 and was placed in the third of six vaults in the family mausoleum, a small Georgian marble structure replete with filigree glass doors, and a stained glass window to diffuse the rays of the setting sun, located on the Mansion property.
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RHDR No.9 Winston Churchill approaching the Dungeness Crossing, heading South towards Dungeness Station.
The Yorkshire Engine Company of Sheffield finished the job of building this loco by finally assembling the parts, accrued during a chequered history for two new engines for the
RH&DR. Originally ordered from, and started by, Davey Paxman then continued at New Romney using boilers from Krauss in Munich.
Designed from drawings originated by Greenly, completed by A.L.S Richardson and based on Canadian Pacific practice!
The Canadian style was chosen by Howey as it was felt that the larger cab would give the driver better protection against some of Kent's fine summer weather, than the British styled
locomotives. He was also a fan of and visitor to the Canadian Pacific Railway. When the engine emerged onto the RH&DR in 1931 she came complete with a very 'American' Vanderbilt tender and was named Doctor Syn, after the Dymchurch smuggling-vicar created by Russell Thorndyke.
In 1948, having been renamed Winston Churchill after the war-time Prime Minister, she was sent to an exhibition in Toronto, Canada. At this time she was painted bright red, but in 1962 she received a black coat of paint and a new tender. The original, although stylish was prone to leaking.
As an experiment Winston Churchill was converted to an oil firing loco in 1973, but was rebuilt conventionally in 1979. The experiments were successful, but a rise in the price of oil meant that no savings would be made over coal.
She carries one of a pair of Crosby chime whistles that Howey had bought in Canada, and had impressed Nigel Gresley on a visit to the RH&DR. Howey then presented Gresley with the second whistle which in turn was fitted to the new LNER express Cock o' the North.
She has just undergone (2013) an in-house Major Overhaul, complete with new power cylinders and a brand new tender. Her current colour is bright red, similar to how she looked during the 1970's.
Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway BO-BO 6-cylinder mainline diesel locomotive No. 14 'Captain Howey' passes Lade working a Hythe to Dungeness service
RHDR No.1 Green Goddess, heading south towards Dungeness Station.
GN outline two-cylinder 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive
Designed by Henry Greenly
Built by Davey Paxman & Co., (15469) in 1925
Overall length: 27' 7"
Weight in working order: 8 ton 10cwt
Driving wheel diameter: 2' 1.5"
Bogie and trailing wheel diameter: 1'
Cylinders: 5.25" x 8.5"
Current Livery: LNER Apple Green
One of two locomotives ordered in 1924 by Count Louis Zborowski, Captain Howey's original partner, and designed by Henry Greenly.
Greenly based them on Nigel Gresley's famous A1 class locomotives of the London & North Eastern Railway, of which the Flying Scotsman is a surviving example. Green Goddess and tender cost £1,250 to build. The name of the locomotive was apparently taken from one of Howey's favourite plays.
She was ready long before the railway, so Howey arranged for her to be tested on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in Cumbria during 1925. Following this, and while the line was under construction, Howey tried to whet the appetite of the local people by displaying the loco at Binns Garage in New Romney.
She has always been seen sporting a livery of green, and since the war has sported two new high capacity tenders. The second of these now belongs to Northern Chief, the first has been re-united with Green Goddess.
Green Goddess caries a Wilcox chime whistle and George Barlow was her driver for over thirty years from 1947.
She currently runs in an Apple Green livery similar to that of the former Great Northern Railway. Having been built in 1925, the year 2000 saw this fine engine celebrate its 75th birthday.
Now, a new DVD — RH&DR 2006 — which features footage from an exciting year in the history of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway: the return of the Bug from overhaul, 2006 gala, installation of barriers at crossings and more.
Green Goddess is now back in service following a major overhaul, returning to traffic on Saturday June 13th 2009.
RD11837. Although the 15 inch gauge Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway is mostly operated by stream locomotives, they do have a couple of main line diesel locomotives. So, for the benefit of the diesel fans, here's a shot of one of them, No.14 CAPTAIN HOWEY, soon after departing from New Romney en route for Dymchurch and Hythe.
Captain Howey was the founder of the RH&DR and, apart from the war years when it requisitioned by the War Department, he ran it from the opening in1927 until his death in 1963. The locomotive that now bears his name is a Bo-Bo diesel-mechanical and it was built in 1989 by TMA Engineering of Erdington in the West Midlands; it has a Perkins six cylinder diesel engine.
Wednesday, 12th August, 2015. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Steve Howey speaking at the 2023 WonderCon, for "True Lies", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Brendan Howey Spinning at the Post office Jumps (Aptos, CA) in early 2011.
Shot with one strobe and the sun.
Elinchrom Ranger Quadra with a sports reflector, high camera right just out of frame.
View west from the open common south of the high point on the Howey to Hundred House lane. Quickly becoming a favourite spot for a quick trip out.
This stunning Lamborghini Murcielago SV was one of the many cars on display during the 2013 Festivals of Speed Mission Inn event in Howey in the Hills, FL.
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Such was the success of John Southland, that the RH&DR ordered a second and almost identical locomotive five years later.
Delivered in 1989 this locomotive ran without nameplates and was known as 'Number 14', but from 16th June 2001 that all changed when she received the name 'Captain Howey' after the founder of the RH&DR.
Although some people may be surprised that the name of the founding father of the railway has been given to a diesel locomotive rather than a steam engine, it should be remembered that Howey built the railway as a miniature version of a modern mainline.
He was also responsible for many experiments with different forms of motive power on the railway and converted his Rolls Royce into a passenger locomotive which he then proceeded to drive at alarming speeds across the Marsh.
Originally delivered in Union Pacific yellow and grey, 'Number 14' was repainted into the blue and cream livery of Eastbourne Buses
in 1983 to celebrate their 90th anniversary. The loco received a royal blue and silver livery in time for the Millennium and for her naming ceremony.
'Captain Howey' can often be seen hauling the school train during term-time and is also used for other passenger duties throughout the operating season.
An architectural gem in the Lake County community of Howey-in-the-Hills attests to Ernest Hemingway’s oft-quoted remark “The rich are different.” To wander through the 20 room mansion built in 1925 by the community’s founder, William J. Howey, and stroll over the 15 acres surrounding, brings a nostalgic feeling of how “Once upon a time".
RH&DR Bo-Bo no. 14 'Captain Howey' on the 1.50pm Hythe to Dungeness during a heavy shower of rain.
13th August 2008
Looking for a new place place for a good, simple, cheap, pasta in the city has been tough. Just as well Julia happened upon a review of Solarino, and off we went!
The antipasto definitely set a high benchmark for what was to come. There was a creamy goats cheese pannacotta that literally melted in our mouths, with a nice velvet mouthfeel and a bit of a tang from the lemon zest. Also fabulous was the little rolls of pancetta with a soft Persian fetta cheese, I think. A light tangy cheese to contrast the salti pancetta. Julia like the arancini deep fried balls of rice were crunchy and light all at the same time. I also liked the sardines with the agro-dolce sweet and sour onions. Heck, I loved everuything on the wooden board, including the wooden board! :)
The radicchio salad was a nice mix of bitter crisp leaves, sweet vincotto, salty peppery Pecorino, finished with a warm nuttiness of hazelnuts. The pear was nice, but I wouldn't miss it.
Then our pastas arrived. The incredible soft pillows of gnocchi were baked with mozzarella and basil, just like a pizza in Napoli! The rich tomato sauce was a hit with everyone and we mopped it up with bread or just scooped the pan clean!
The casareccia also had a similar rich tomato sauce, but this time, there was a hint of fennel from the Sicilian pork sausages and a meatier strings of pork sarsa. The twirls or casareccia with the S-shaped cross-section held the sauce nicely.
Just for good measure, we also got a risotto to compare with our favourite minimalist risotto at Tutto Bene. Solarino's had a nice balance richness from the Tallegio cheese and saltiness from the pancetta but it was perhaps a little on the sweet side, and a little busy with the number of ingredients.
Would we be back? Heck yeah! There were also little pots of tiramisu sitting in the display out the front, along with other yummy looking pastries, that I'd be back for, not to mention the simple delicious pastas!
Solarino
(03) 9663 2636
Shop 7 / 273 Little Collins St
Melbourne VIC 3000
enter from Howey Place, Melbourne.
Reviews:
- Solarino's siren song, Matt Preston, Reviewer, The Age, Epicure, December 15, 2008
- Solarino, by Rita Erlich, De Groots Media, September 2008
Photos:
- Napkins
- Radicchio, Pear, Hazelnut Salad with Pecorino Cheese and vincotto dressing - AUD13.90
- Gnocchi Napoli oven-baked with Mozzarella - AUD18.90
- Risotto of pancetta, leek, Taleggio cheese and pear - AUD19.90
- Casareccia pasta with Sicillian sausage and pork sarsa - AUD19.90
Mingle Media TV's Red Carpet Report host Ashley Bornancin were invited to come out to cover the Friends of the Saban Community Clinic's 37th Annual Dinner Gala at the Beverly Hilton.
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“House of Lies” costars Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell hosted this year's Friends of the Saban Community Clinic 37th Annual Dinner Gala with a musical performance by The Fray and comedy by Sarah Silverman. The star-studded event honored Showtime Networks Inc. President of Entertainment David Nevins and Friends of the Saban Community Clinic Board Member Eric Siegel. Nevins and Siegel received the Friends Leadership Award and Lenny Somberg Award for their leadership and support of the Clinic’s work in improving health care access for thousands of Los Angeles families each year.
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The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway was built in 1927-28 by model railway engineer Henry Greenly. Originally conceived by the Polish racing driver Louis Zborowski, it was funded by Anglo-Australian landowner J E P Howey, who owned the railway until his death in the 1960s. The line was designed by Greenly to be to 15" gauge but roughly 1:3 scale, and is over 13 miles long.
New Romney station was originally designed as a four-platform terminus, but soon after completion the line was extended southwards and the station had to be largely rebuilt, the track being lowered so that trains could, just, fit under the road.
Constructed during the 1920s and opened on 16 July 1927, the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway was the dream of millionaire racing drivers Captain J.E.P. Howey and Count Louis Zborowski. Zborowski had constructed a railway at Higham Park, his home at Bridge, Kent, and agreed to donate the rolling stock and infrastructure to the project. Zborowski however was killed in a motor racing accident at Monza before the Romney Marsh site was chosen, and Howey continued the project alone.
The locomotives were designed by engineer Henry Greenly who worked with Captain J E P Howey. Greenly also served as the railway's first Chief Engineer.
Mountain Class 'Hercules' hauled the inaugural train from Hythe to New Romney with guests including the mayors of the two towns, and General Sir Ivor Maxse. Howey was not happy with just 8 miles (13 km) from New Romney to Hythe and he extended 5 1⁄2 miles (9 km) from New Romney to Dungeness. This section was originally double track, but is now single due to damage during World War II, when the line was taken over by the military. A miniature armoured train was used on the line. After the war the line re-opened between Hythe and New Romney in 1946, with the singled New Romney to Dungeness section reopened on 28 March 1947 by Laurel and Hardy.
As well as being a tourist attraction, this railway is a public service for the small towns and villages between Hythe and Dungeness and is under contract to the local council to transport children to and from The Marsh Academy in New Romney. The railway is expanding its role as part of the public transport network: Warren Halt re-opened in 2009 to provide a transport link to the Romney Marsh Visitor Centre, and discussions with local councils are taking place about the possible expansion of Burmarsh Road and the provision of a new station at the gravel pits in West Hythe, in connection with both the proposed extensive new housing construction and the need to provide alternative transport to the A259 coast road.
All ten original locomotives remain in service, covering thousands of miles each year. The fleet, already one of the largest of any 15-inch (380 mm) railway in Britain, was expanded in 1976 with German-built locomotive no.11 'Black Prince' (formerly 'Fleißiges Lieschen' = 'Busy Lizzie'). The RH&DR is still the only user of the 4-8-2 "Mountain" locomotive in the UK, with No. 6 'Samson' and No. 5 'Hercules' in regular service. Two diesels, No. 12 'John Southland'(- later renamed J B Snell in May 2014) and No. 14 (Nameless - later 'Captain Howey'), were constructed in the 1980s.
The line carries 100,000 passengers each year.
The railway celebrated its 80th birthday in 2007 with a week of celebrations including reconstructions of scenes on the railway over the previous eight decades
RHDR No.8 Hurricane, waiting at Dungeness Station.
GN outline two-cylinder (formerly three-cylinder)
4-6-2 Pacific locomotive
Designed by Henry Greenly
Built by Davey Paxman & Co., (16044) in 1927
Overall length: 27' 7"
Weight in working order: 8 ton 10cwt
Driving wheel diameter: 2' 1.5"
Bogie and trailing wheel diameter: 1'
Cylinders: 5.25" x 8.5"
Current Livery: Caledonian Blue
Delivered on 20th July 1927, Hurricane was identical to Typhoon — a powerful three cylinder locomotive. She at once became Captain Howey's favourite and was fitted with special features such as stainless steel handrails and, in 1934, a high capacity tender modeled on the corridor tenders of the LNER.
She remained three cylinder until the inside motion failed in July 1937. She fell from favour and the Captain had her painted blue and renamed Bluebottle. In this guise she was used to pull the new blue train until the war, during which time she was used extensively by the Army.
After the war she retained her blue livery, found favour with the Captain once again and was renamed Hurricane. In 1950 she received smoke deflectors.
In 1957, Hurricane hauled a Royal train carrying HM the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. To commemorate this event, she now carries a plaque on her cab-side.
She carries a chromium-plated whistle similar to those fitted to the streamlined A4 pacifics of the LNER like Mallard. It was a gift of their designer Nigel Gresley to Captain Howey, who had previously presented a Canadian Pacific whistle to the famous engineer.
In August 1994, Hurricane became another RH&DR locomotive to be a victim of an accident with a motor vehicle, this time on a private crossing near Greatstone. After receiving repairs, she continued to see service, until a full overhaul during 1996 —1997. During this she was given a new tender similar to the previous 1934 model.
Hurricane returned for in time to enter service for the 1998 season and became the 1999 timetable cover star.
Following an accident near Dungeness in July 2005, Hurricane has once again undergone a complete and major overhaul, returned to traffic in February 2008.
In May 2008 she travelled all the way to Cumbria, with Typhoon, to spend some time on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. Click here to see some photos of the trip »
She remains as popular with visitors today as she did with the railways founder.
The Yorkshire Engine Company of Sheffield
finished the job of building this loco by finally assembling the parts, accrued during a
chequered history for two new engines for the
RH&DR. Originally ordered from, and started by,
Davey Paxman then continued at New Romney
using boilers from Krauss in Munich.
Designed from drawings originated by Greenly,
completed by A.L.S Richardson and based on
Canadian Pacific practice!
The Canadian style was chosen by Howey as it
was felt that the larger cab would give the driver
better protection against some of Kent's fine
summer weather, than the British styled
locomotives. He was also a fan of and visitor to
the Canadian Pacific Railway. When the engine
emerged onto the RH&DR in 1931 she came
complete with a very 'American' Vanderbilt tender
and was named Doctor Syn, after the Dymchurch
smuggling-vicar created by Russell Thorndyke.
In 1948, having been renamed Winston Churchill after the war-time Prime Minister, she was sent to
an exhibition in Toronto, Canada. At this time she
was painted bright red, but in 1962 she received a
black coat of paint and a new tender. The original, although stylish was prone to leaking.
As an experiment Winston Churchill was converted
to an oil firing loco in 1973, but was rebuilt
conventionally in 1979. The experiments were successful, but a rise in the price of oil meant
that no savings would be made over coal.
She carries one of a pair of Crosby chime whistles
that Howey had bought in Canada, and had
impressed Nigel Gresley on a visit to the RH&DR.
Howey then presented Gresley with the second
whistle which in turn was fitted to the new LNER
express Cock o' the North.
She has just undergone (2013) an in-house Major
Overhaul, complete with new power cylinders and
a brand new tender. Her current colour is bright
red, similar to how she looked during the 1970's
Constructed during the 1920s and opened on 16 July 1927, the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway was the dream of millionaire racing drivers Captain J.E.P. Howey and Count Louis Zborowski. Zborowski had constructed a railway at Higham Park, his home at Bridge, Kent, and agreed to donate the rolling stock and infrastructure to the project. Zborowski however was killed in a motor racing accident at Monza before the Romney Marsh site was chosen, and Howey continued the project alone.
The locomotives were designed by engineer Henry Greenly who worked with Captain J E P Howey. Greenly also served as the railway's first Chief Engineer.
Mountain Class 'Hercules' hauled the inaugural train from Hythe to New Romney with guests including the mayors of the two towns, and General Sir Ivor Maxse. Howey was not happy with just 8 miles (13 km) from New Romney to Hythe and he extended 5 1⁄2 miles (9 km) from New Romney to Dungeness. This section was originally double track, but is now single due to damage during World War II, when the line was taken over by the military. A miniature armoured train was used on the line. After the war the line re-opened between Hythe and New Romney in 1946, with the singled New Romney to Dungeness section reopened on 28 March 1947 by Laurel and Hardy.
As well as being a tourist attraction, this railway is a public service for the small towns and villages between Hythe and Dungeness and is under contract to the local council to transport children to and from The Marsh Academy in New Romney. The railway is expanding its role as part of the public transport network: Warren Halt re-opened in 2009 to provide a transport link to the Romney Marsh Visitor Centre, and discussions with local councils are taking place about the possible expansion of Burmarsh Road and the provision of a new station at the gravel pits in West Hythe, in connection with both the proposed extensive new housing construction and the need to provide alternative transport to the A259 coast road.
All ten original locomotives remain in service, covering thousands of miles each year. The fleet, already one of the largest of any 15-inch (380 mm) railway in Britain, was expanded in 1976 with German-built locomotive no.11 'Black Prince' (formerly 'Fleißiges Lieschen' = 'Busy Lizzie'). The RH&DR is still the only user of the 4-8-2 "Mountain" locomotive in the UK, with No. 6 'Samson' and No. 5 'Hercules' in regular service. Two diesels, No. 12 'John Southland'(- later renamed J B Snell in May 2014) and No. 14 (Nameless - later 'Captain Howey'), were constructed in the 1980s.
The line carries 100,000 passengers each year.
The railway celebrated its 80th birthday in 2007 with a week of celebrations including reconstructions of scenes on the railway over the previous eight decades
The KOM League
Flash Report
For week of
May 22—28, 2016
Warning:
This report is far ranging and voluminous so you might wish to read it in small doses. There is some “good” stuff in this edition and if you miss any of it your knowledge of the KOM league will be less than what it could be. On the other hand, if you ignore this report entirely, and concentrate on something else, you’ll probably be using your time more wisely. The report is posted at: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/26797573400/ Thus, you can go back to it, if needed. You will see the rare photo of a baseball team in short pants. The experiment didn’t last long as Bartlesville manager, Tedd Gullic, put a quick end to the nonsense. His main reason for doing so “The players wouldn’t slide.”
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Has it gone far enough?
It has been a contention that my best thinking is done when I’m mowing the yard or running the roto-killer (correct description) in the garden. Those two machines drown out all noise and no one is about to come around asking if they can help. Thus, you are alone with your thoughts.
One morning this past week I was decked out in my “best” attire. My socks didn’t match, my straw hat made me look as old as I really am and my wife was pointing at me as she uttered to our daughter “There sits the spitting image of your grandmother.” Sure enough, I know that I do look like her but my mother was 98-years-old when she was last spotted on earth.
As I worked in the yard, sans anyone interrupting me, I thought about mother and my earliest years. I came into this world at the end of the Great Depression and two months prior to my birth Hitler was on the march. The war years were lived out with everyone getting by on the basics and no frills. I was always told that when the war ended we’d have more things and could go more places with the lifting of gasoline rationing and most everything else.
Shortly after the conclusion of the war my dad died and what my mother went through was far worse, for her, than either the depression or the war. She worked hard as both mother and father and we made it. But, in making it our family did things a little different than most any of my acquaintances at that time and different from anyone I know in this generation.
One thing I never thought about, until my son-in-law came along, was, how I ate. He told my daughter he never saw a family that ate the meat of every item clear to the bone. I thought everyone did that, no reason to waste good food. Another thing we did, when I was growing up, was use every drop of anything left in a jar such as jelly, catsup, mustard etc., and I still do it.
So, as I mowed and roto-killed this week, the thought kept running through my head that I have about used up every drop in the KOM league catsup bottle and can’t squeeze much more out of the toothpaste tube known as KOM history Writing about the KOM league has now gone on three times longer than it existed.
As you read, scan or ignore this issue of the Flash Report I’d really like to have a frank answer to this question; “Has all the meat been stripped from the bone and is the catsup bottle empty?” I have no desire to bore the readership with redundant stories or other stories that aren’t redundant that might fall into the category as “Boring.”
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In recent weeks mention has been made, in this publication, regarding the 70th Anniversary of the start of the KOM league. Quite by accident I spotted an article, this week, in a June 1996 edition of the Tulsa, Okla. World. I read it with interest and then told my wife that I don’t recall ever seeing that article. I do recall the author of the article being in Pittsburg, Kansas for the first reunion of the KOM league that transpired on the 50th anniversary of its inception.
Reading the Tulsa World story from 1996 it seems as far removed, in time, as 1946 was to 1996 when the KOM leaguers re-gathered for the first time. Most of the fellows quoted by Terrell Lester, the author of the article, became good friends of mine and left the scene far too early. If you were a family member or friend of Goldie Howard, Eldon Yung, Bob Newbill or Al Solenberger you will want to scan this article. The only two guys mentioned in the article, still living, are Don Ervin and Yours truly. Both of us live in Missouri and the constants in my life, as mentioned in that article, are the address and telephone number neither of which has changed since 1994.
Lester’s lead off reference in his two-decade old article stated the attendees at Pittsburg were in their 60s, 70s, and 80s Now, they are in their 80s, 90s or have “crossed over. So I’m turning back the clock two decades and letting Terrell Lester take over. You can either pull up the following URL or read the narrative I cut and pasted
KOM League Reunion Brings Back Memories--June 9, 1996 Tulsa World
www.tulsaworld.com/archives/kom-league-reunion-brings-bac...
Cut and pasted version.—
There were a lot of young baseball players running around Pittsburg, Kan., last weekend.
They were in their 60s, 70s and 80s.
They thought it was 1946. Or 1950. And, for three days, it was.
It was the field of dreams all over again. Back there in Kansas, Toto.
Some 125 or so of them came together to relive the glory days, and the only days, of the KOM League.
From 1946 through 1952, the league operated in towns in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, thus the name, KOM.
It was the lowest rung on the professional baseball ladder, Class D. To some, Class D ball was the bush leagues. But for those young men who were being paid the going rate of $150 per month to play in the days following World War II, life was good.
Just how good those days were was brought up over and over again, and undoubtedly even enhanced a little, during the weekend reunion in Pittsburg.
John Hall of Columbia, Mo., pulled together the golden anniversary celebration of the KOM League. And former players, managers and bat boys came from all sections of the country to talk of the games they used to play.
The highlight of the weekend was to have been an old-timers game but the highlight turned out to be a three-day conversation among 125 people who shared a common bond. Frank "Goldie" Howard celebrated an anniversary of his own during the reunion. He turned 83 on Sunday.
As a 33-year-old player-manager in 1946, Howard guided the Chanute (Kan.) Owls to the KOM's initial championship. The Owls were an independent team that year, lacking a major
league working agreement. Most of the players, ranging in age from 17 to 24, were scouted and signed by Howard just before the start of the season on May 31.
Howard graduated from high school in Dustin, Okla. His father sold a hog to raise enough money to send young Howard to Springfield, Mo., to a St. Louis Cardinals tryout camp. Howard was given a contract and played in the Cardinals minor league system until becoming a manager. He now lives in Hollister, Mo.
Bob Newbill was a catcher on the 1949 Independence (Kan.) Yankees team that featured a wild-throwing shortstop by the name of Mickey Mantle.
Late in the season, the Independence first baseman (Ed note: Nick Ananias) was sidelined by injury. Newbill, not overly familiar with the position, was tapped to be the replacement.
"They put me on first base and I couldn't catch, and they had Mantle at short and he couldn't throw," said Newbill, who lives in Windsor, Mo.
Newbill told event organizer Hall: "For a weekend, you helped a bunch of old men forget some aches and pains."
Eldon Yung of Warrensburg, Mo., was the only former player wearing a uniform at a Saturday luncheon.
But it was not a wool uniform worn in the KOM days. It was a modern-day knit uniform -- from the St. Louis Cardinals. Yung, who played first base for the 1950 Miami (Okla.) Blues (Ed note:--Eagles), took part in a Cardinals fantasy camp in 1991. The camp trip was a gift upon Yung's retirement from Central Missouri State University, where he was chairman of the Department of Graphics.
At the fantasy camp, Yung managed a hit off Cardinals Hall-of-Famer Bob Gibson.
Billy Guy Bukkious (sp--Bockius) of Muskogee visited the reunion on Saturday and showed off a collection of more than a dozen official KOM League baseballs.
All of the baseballs were autographed, and one was signed by Pittsburgh Pirates Hall-of-Famer Lloyd Waner.
Bukkious (sp) served as a batboy for the Bartlesville Pirates in 1950 after spending the 1946 and '47 seasons with the Pittsburg Browns as a bat boy.
His parents, Jack and Edythe, operated Jack's Shack in Bartlesville. It was a popular hangout among players. Jack's Shack was perhaps the most mentioned and most fondly remembered
establishment during the reunion.
The most popular individual at the reunion was its organizer and workhorse John Hall.
He received well-deserved salutes and plaudits from all of the 200 who attended a Friday night dinner.
Hall, an 11-year-old bat boy for the 1951 Carthage (Mo.) Cubs, has written a book that serves as the definitive recounting of the KOM League.
Manuscripts of the book, complete with scores of photographs, were the hottest items on display. It will not be ready for publication until late summer, but Hall is taking advance orders.
His address is 1709 Rainwood Place, Columbia, Mo., 65203. His telephone number is (573) 445-8125. (Ed note: When that book was released the following year, in October, the greatest review of it was done by Terrell Lester in a Sunday Edition of the Tulsa World and he gave it a large spread.)
Hall said that 225 people attended a Saturday night dinner from 37 states.
Al Solenberger of Bartlesville arrived in Pittsburg to discover that he was a record-holder.
Hall told Solenberger that he held the record for most hits in the seven-year history of the league.
Solenberger played center field for the Bartlesville Pirates in 1947-48-51, collecting 385 hits.
"I wasn't aware of any record," he said. "That's pretty neat." A native of Springfield, Ohio, Solenberger decided to remain in Bartlesville after his playing days. He later served 11 years as
coach of the Bill Doenges-sponsored Bartlesville American Legion team, leading the 1969 squad to second place in the national tournament.
Solenberger was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as a pitcher. But upon his arrival at his first training camp, he moved to the outfield.
"I could see there were too many pitchers," he said with a laugh. The move was encouraged by Pittsburgh Pirates batting instructor Lloyd Waner.
After moving to the outfield and making the Bartlesville team, Solenberger roomed with outfielder Brandy Davis and pitcher Ron Kline, both of whom wound up in the big leagues.
Solenberger recalled the day that Pittsburgh general manager Branch Rickey telephoned to summon Davis and Kline to a higher classification.
Rickey had to call three times.
Solenberger answered all three times. And hung up twice. Each time Rickey announced himself to the young player, Solenberger, believing the call to be a joke, hung up. On the third attempt, Rickey had his secretary announce him to Solenberger. "Why did you hang up on me, young man?" Rickey inquired.
"Would you believe it was Branch Rickey if you were in my place?" Solenberger said.
Another KOM record-holder attending the reunion was Don Ervin. Playing for the 1952 Miami Eagles, Ervin hit 24 home runs, more than any other player in the league, Hall said.
Players gathered in small pockets with former teammates and talked about the days of skinned (all dirt) infields, and the practice of leaving gloves in the field when teams went in to bat.
They talked of $2 a day meal money and broken down buses. They talked of favorite cafes and not-so-favorite, second-rate hotels. But most of all, they talked about playing baseball in another
time, another era. They talked about being boys of summer. And for a while last weekend, they were again.
Terrell Lester carried this story in the September 29, 1997 edition of the Tulsa World, replete with pictures.
Fond Memories of Minor League Baseball
A major-league book about minor-league baseball has hit a home run.
"Majoring in The Minors" is John G. Hall's epic tome that offers an old-fashioned glimpse of baseball through the eyes of a small-town batboy.
John is the one-time Tulsan who has singularly and fastidiously chronicled the history of the KOM League, a Class D professional league that operated in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri from 1946 through 1952. He served as the batboy for the Carthage (Mo.) Cubs
in 1951, and now lives in Columbia, Mo. He orchestrated the successful reunion of some 250 former players during the summer in Pittsburg, Kan., and it was there that John
was putting the finishing touches on his book.
The 432-page, soft-cover work is now being shipped to those who ordered early. It is a delicious blend of nostalgic anecdotes, interviews, statistics (the lifeblood of any baseball fan) and
photographs (307 total, ranging from team photos to candid, off-the-field shots). It is a celebration of the life of minor-league baseball.
Jim Morris of Grove received one of the first copies of the book. He was with the Miami (Okla.) Owls in 1947 and pitched a no-hitter against Carthage in the season opener. He calls the book "unbelievable."
"I think it's a remarkable endeavor. It was a real challenge and a tremendous effort. I can't believe how much John put into it," he said.
As for the author himself, John says, "The greatest satisfaction that I have is to know that the book got out while many of the guys are still able to read it."
"Majoring in The Minors" is edited and published by Bob Dellinger and his Oklahoma Bylines Inc. house of Stillwater. It can be ordered through John G. Hall, 1709 Rainwood Place, Columbia, Mo., 65203. Cost is $47.50, which includes shipping and handling. (Ed note: That book is long out of print and now the asking price is around $200 on E-bay.)
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Look what was found-- finally
An old gentleman was asked “Who was the prettiest girl you ever saw?” The sage answer was “The last one who walked past me.” I feel that way about locating former KOM leaguers or learning of their fate. The latest guy found always represents the toughest research task. After 22 years of searching I now know about a former Miami Owls hurler by the name of John Thornton Wolford.
Miami News Record—June 20, 1948
New Hurler Join Owls Saturday -- Accompanied by a new pitcher, big Jim Hansen, who was the first- string- catcher on Miami's KOM league pennant winning baseball team last year, was sent to Chanute Saturday afternoon soon after his return here. The new Owl hurler is John Wolford, 19-year-old Otway, Ohio, youth. A rookie, he is a right hander. The announcement from the Miami Baseball club Saturday also advised that Tommy Tarascio, Owl second baseman, is now on the disabled list. He is suffering from an injured shoulder, it was said.
Wolford’s first appearance at Miami—July 3, 1948
John Wolford, making his first start for the Owls at the local park, started for the Flock but gave way to (Jim) Price in the third after three (Bartlesville) Pirate tallies had ambled across the platter. The hustling (Guerney) Freeman, playing his first game of his baseball career at first base, poled out three of the Owls' six safeties off Pirate hurler (Dave) Elliot. Plenty of fireworks will be on deck for local fans today as Boyd Bartley's loop-leading Ponca City caravan meets Art Priebe's Owls in a holiday twin bill.
Wolford’s second mound appearance—July 4, 1948
MIAMI, OKLA. MONDAY, JULY 5, 1948-- Owls Still Weak At Plate; Lose Pair To Poncans Ponca City's league-leading Dodgers rolled to a double Fourth of July victory over the Owls, yesterday at Fairgrounds park, 8-6 and 4-3, to wind up first half play in the KOM loop—four games out in front. Centerfielder, Joe Beran, clouted two homers in the afternoon tilt to lead Ponca City's- 11-hit attack off three Miami flingers. A four-run rally by the Flock in the seventh frame highlighted by doubles by Tom Tarascio and Warren Liston gave the Owls a temporally 5-5 tie. Each team added a single tally in the eighth frame, but a pair of singles off John Wolford, an intentional pass, and two infield rollers sent across two Ponca runs in the ninth. Ponca hurlers, (Dick) McCoy and John Hall, were nicked for only two bingles by the Owls. (The word “bingles” was often used by sportswriters instead of “singles.”)
Wolford’s obituary
John Thornton Wolford Sr., 83, of Lucasville, passed away surrounded by family and friends,
Monday, June 11, 2012, at SOMC Hospice.
He was born Nov. 9, 1928, in Otway; a son of the late Chester Ray and Helen Thornton Wolford.
John was a retired Shift Captain of the Goodyear Atomic Police Department with 34 years of service, a U.S. Army Korean War veteran, a member of the Lucasville Branch of the Community of Christ, and a 1946 Otway High School graduate. John was a 50-year member of the Lucasville Masonic Lodge 465 and a former Republican Committeeman.
He was an avid sports fan of the Ohio State Buckeyes, Cincinnati Reds, and the Valley Indians. John was honored by the Valley Local Schools as their No. 1 sports fan and was an honorary
member of the Valley Alumni Hall of Fame.
He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Alberta Jane Kennard Wolford who he married Dec. 14, 1956, in Otway; one son John (Sigrid) Wolford Jr. of Lucasville; one daughter Julie (Tim) Mosley of Lucasville; two grandchildren Lauren and Drew Wolford; one sister Mary Ellen LaRue of Largo, Fla; four nieces; one nephew; and his good friend and fellow athletic booster, Ralph Merritt Sr. He was also preceded in death by an infant daughter Amy Ann Wolford; one
brother Chester Ray Wolford. Funeral services will be conducted 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 14, 2012, at Valley High School with Elders Paul Crabtree and Paul Gregory officiating. A Masonic funeral will follow. Friends may call 4:30 to 7:15 p.m. in the gymnasium. Graveside military
services will be conducted 1 p.m. Friday in Scioto Burial Park by the William A. Baker and James Irwin Posts of the American Legion. Arrangements are under the direction of the McKinley Funeral Home in Lucasville.
The epilogue:
After going through the obituary I located the whereabouts of John Wolford Jr.. I placed a call to him and he returned it. It was a busy time of baseball games and graduations and he promised to get back with me in a few days. Thus, there will be another story regarding the former Miami Owls pitcher, in the near future.
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Filling in the blanks on the late James Joseph Ryan—Bartlesville Pirate.
Since the inception of the task to locate former KOM leaguers, I knew that James Ryan of Covington, Kentucky had died in 1958. That was far too soon for a 29-year-old to leave this world. Just eight short years earlier he played the outfield for the Bartlesville, Okla. Pirates and was featured in the famous photo of the Bartlesville Pirates wearing short pants. Shown at this site: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/26797573400 It is also carried, along with the story in “The KOM League Remembered” page 82, published by Arcadia.
Ryan played with four other Pittsburgh Pirate farm teams during a career that spanned 1949 through 1951
Over the years I’ve carried his place of death as Warren, Pennsylvania but as the following story indicates, it wasn’t where he died.
Warren Times Mirror, Warren PA March 28 1958—
www.newspapers.com/newspage/56699482/ (If you subscribe to this feature you can pull up the front page of that edition and a photo of Ryan and his story is located there. If you don’t subscribe you can go to that site and then scroll down and find the story in OCR format. If patient, you can figure out what it says or as an option you can read the story in the following paragraphs.)
Another attempt was made to bring each of you that front page story. Hopefully, by clicking on the following URL you can avoid the OCR function. Let me know if it works. I took the liberty of changing one thing in the story that I copied for the Flash Report. Ryan went to Mt. Carmel Hospital in Detroit, not St. Carmel.
www.newspapers.com/clip/5287580/warren_times_mirror/
James Joseph Ryan, an engineer at Struthers-Wells Corporation, died about 7 a. m. today in Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital, Detroit, from injuries received in a taxicab accident there Wednesday. He was 29.
According to the Fatality Squad of Detroit's accident Prevention Bureau, Mr. Ryan was traveling on John R. Street in a Checker taxicab about 2:35 p. m. At the intersection of Seven Mile Road, the right side of the cab was struck, sending the vehicle caroming into the far lane where it was struck by a second car going in to opposite direct on John R. Street.
Doors of the taxi were flung open by the impact and the victim was thrown to the street. Mr. Ryan was rushed to the hospital suffering a fractured pelvis, possible skull fracture and severe internal injuries and bleeding.
Vincent Moxie, a 74-year-old Detroit man who precipitated the accident when he swung onto John R. Street from Seven Mile road, fled the crash scene but his front license plate had been jarred off.
William Harvey of the Fatal Squad said in Detroit today that charges of manslaughter and leaving the scene of the accident are pending against the man. Harvey said the man "almost passed out" this morning when being questioned at the station.
Driver of the second car which stuck the cab as it swung around on the street was Betty Freeman, 28, of Detroit.
No other injury report was immediately available.
Mr. Ryan had been in Detroit on a business and was expected home Wednesday night. Internal injuries were believed to have been the cause of death.
His wife, the former Corrine Culbertson, whom he married Oct. 3, 1953, was at the bedside in Detroit along with the victim's parents who reside in Covington, KY.
The body will arrive in Warren Saturday night. Funeral details are incomplete pending arrival of the family this evening. Peterson funeral Home will announce plans.
James Joseph Ryan was born in Covington, October 19, 1928, and came to Warren six years ago as a DuPont inspector. He was also employed by Pennsylvania Furnace and Iron Company for some time prior to his work as an engineer for Struthers-Wells Corporation.
Mr. Ryan was a graduate of University of Kentucky and the University of Cincinnati, and served with the Paratroopers following World War II. He was a faithful member of Holy Redeemer church; also a member of the American Society of engineers and had been serving as president of Warren Industrial Management Association. He was highly regarded in business and social endeavors.
Besides his wife, who resides at 206 Connecticut Ave. in, Warren, he leaved two children Patricia and Mary Beth, at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Ryan, Covington, Ky: a brother and two sisters.
Ed comment:
The driver of the car that hit the taxi in which Ryan was riding was Vincent Moxie who was born in Poland in 1884. He came to the United States in 1931 and worked as a carpenter and later with the Ford Motor Company. The Detroit Free Press on March 29, 1958 suggested manslaughter charges were being considered but from my research I could find none were ever filed. Mr. Moxie lived another nine years following the wreck.
Upon his death Joseph Ryan left a wife and two daughters. His wife, Corrine, remarried seven years later. She passed away in June of 2015 and if you care to read her obituary it is found here www.lewisfuneralhomeinc.com/corrine-c-shanshala/
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Closing the Tri-State Miners story—I think.
In the May 8—14, 2016 edition of this publication a photo of the 1953 Tri-State Miners was shared due to the passing of Max W. Buzzard. I’ve used that photo in the past when Ray and Roy Mantle passed away along with the announcement of the death of Johnny Lafalier.
Never did I detail the story of all the players in that photo, although it wouldn’t be difficult to do. In fact, one person who pitched on that team was a 17-year-old recent graduate of Chelsea, OK High school, Ralph Terry.
However, one of the best athletes on that team was Charles Gaylon Enos who is shown on the far left of the second row in this photo.
www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/26797573400
He was born in Joplin, Missouri on August 23, 1920 and attended school there until graduating in 1939. While at Joplin High school he led the Eagles to their first state basketball championship in 1939.
Two things happened to him in 1942. On May 23 he married Shirley Jean Tyler in Carthage, Missouri and then he went off to serve in the U. S. Army where he attained the rank of Master Sergeant. Following the war he went to work for the Tamko Roofing Company. During that era he spent his spare time playing baseball in the summer and basketball in the winter. Most likely he was a better basketball player than he was at baseball.
He played for the Tamko Roofers and later coached them until he was called back into the Army in 1950. After the Korean War Enos continued his employment with Tamko until his retirement. At that time he moved to Denver, Colorado where he died in 1995. He is buried at Rosecrans National Cemetery. This is his Find-A-Grave site: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=625851... I assume that what is placed on a grave marker is “etched in stone” forever. On many sites he was Gaylon Charles and others it was Charles Gaylon. But, the Rosecrans site shows his grave marker as Charles G., so that settles it for me.
I found an article, on line, that told of a Tamko basketball reunion and I quote it and then place editorial notes when I think they might add to the story. The article was carried in the May 16, 2003 edition of the Joplin Globe. So, here goes. If this is as “clear as mud” you can send me a note to clarify what puzzles you.
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The TAMKO Roofers were an independent basketball team that played for five seasons in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
It was an era in which communities smaller than Joplin fielded teams and recruited talent throughout the region.
The Roofers, formed as an advertising tool for Joplin TAMKO Asphalt Products, probably were the best or among the elite independent or town teams of the era.
The Roofers traveled many miles — in addition to playing in a Joplin YMCA league — and won a high percentage of their games.
The TAMKO roster contained several former college standouts as well as prep stars basically from southwest Missouri. Nearly all were athletes. Their skills weren’t on the decline. At least two members played pro baseball. Another had been drafted by the NBA
There’s little doubt about the Roofers’ biggest win — a one-point decision against the Harlem Globetrotters in Joplin’s Memorial Hall. (Ed note: Game score was 34-33. January 6, 1948. Enos scored five points in that game that got very rough toward the end. This was the “Famous Globetrotter” aggregation. The group coached by Abe Saperstein that included Goose Tatum, Marques Haynes et. al. came to Joplin on February 13 of that year and played their “patsy” opponent, the New York Celtics. The Famous Globetrotter quintet that lost to Joplin was shown in the January 7, 1948 edition of the Joplin Globe as; Belcher, Bowen, Edwards, Johnston and Johnson. The night after losing to Joplin they played in Cassville, Mo and beat them 64-39.)
Keith Adams, Joplin, a member of the Roofers, will present the team for induction into the Joplin Area Sports Hall of Fame on Friday at Twin Hills Golf and Country Club. The event, presented by the Joplin Sports Authority, starts at 7 p.m.
A TAMKO roster handed out at a July 1, 1984, reunion held in Joplin at Cunningham Park and sponsored by Jay and Ethelmae Humphreys contained the following names:
Keith Adams, John Allen, Granvil Boyd, Clarence Brannum, Jack Carrithers, Les Cooper, Fred Daugherty, Bill Davis, Walt Dellbringge, LeRoy Deming, Gaylon Enos, Bert Evans, Bob Fitton, Red Haynes, Rusty Haynes, Charles Hight, George Hosp, Harold Howey, Bill Hurd, Roy Jackson, Bud Kite, Monte Lamb, Loren Olson, Scotty Plumb, Joe Pogue, Bob Rayon, T.G. Reynolds, Shelby Slinker, W.G. Tracy and Smitty Warden. (Ed note: Of that group Loren Olson, T. G. Reynolds and George Hosp played in the KOM league. Olsen pitched for Pittsburg, in 1946, Reynolds pitched for Chanute in 1947 and Hosp played first base for Carthage in 1946. Hosp didn’t play in 1947 but started the 1948 season on the Duluth Dukes roster. He was released before the bus crash the Dukes suffered that year.)
Adams, then a 6-foot-4, 165-pounder, played three seasons with the Roofers. Adams, a 1947 Joplin High School graduate, said Enos and Cooper served as player/coaches.
“I’m convinced Rusty (Haynes) and Gaylon (Enos) could have played pro basketball.” Adams said.
“Rusty was about 6-2 and a tremendous athlete. ... a terrific fast pitch softball player. He and Alton Clay had similar ability in softball.
“Gaylon, who helped Joplin win its first state basketball title in 1939, reminded you of a Bantam Rooster. He seemed cocky but he really wasn’t. He had a deadly two-handed set shot.
“Joe Pogue — we called him ‘Jumping Joe’ — was an excellent player out of Anderson (and Drury).”
Kite, who lives in Carthage, graduated from Rocky Comfort High School in 1948. He was playing with Fairview when his effort nearly beat the Roofers. He joined TAMKO after a visit with Enos.
“I actually was about 6-2 when I was playing with TAMKO,” Kite said with a laugh. “I grew to 6-4 (as a mainstay in fast pitch softball as a pitcher).”
Rusty Haynes and Gaylon Enos left a deep impression on Kite as they did with Adams.
“Rusty probably was the best all-around TAMKO player,” Kite said. “Gaylon was a warrior on the court. He was salty. He could agitate people, too.”
Adams believes during his time with the Roofers that Cooper and Hosp consistently were among the starters with Enos and Rusty Haynes. Good friend Daugherty, one of several Roofers who made education a career, also worked into the lineup.
“That Hosp,” Adams said with another laugh. “I think he’s a Joplin High School graduate. He attended Joplin as a freshman, moved to Seneca for two years and returned to Joplin.”
Adams insisted that Enos hit all 50 free throws in a contest with a player from Hazel Walker’s All-American Redheads. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Walker
The second 25, Adams said, came after a couple of Redheads pulled Enos to midcourt. They wooed him. They ran their fingers through his hair in a futile attempt to fluster him. His opponent, after 25-for-25, hit “only” 23 of 25.
“For an independent team — and there was a lot of those teams around then — we traveled a lot,” Kite said.
Daugherty, a 1946 Joplin High School graduate, also played at Joplin Junior College. He said TAMKO may have averaged three games a week.
“We were serious about it,” Daugherty said. “We’d practice hard for three or four weeks before the season. We were in shape.”
Jack Carrithers wasn’t a TAMKO player or coach. But his appearance in the team photographs was richly deserved, Adams indicated.
Carrithers kept the scorebook. Plus, he was the business manager.
Winning a tournament might mean $100, Adams said. That was a tidy sum in those days. It all added up to a grand party or a chunk when divided.
Carrithers and his wife plan to attend the banquet on Friday night. They live in Conway, Ark.
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The last word:
Once in a while I receive a telephone call from someone who has lost touch due to computer problems. Probably more often than I’d like to think when the contact is lost the person is happy not to have my pestiferous Flash Reports cluttering up their mailbox.
However, I received a call from Aletha Bartley this week telling me her computer got all messed up and she had a new e-mail address. So, if any of you Boyd and Aletha Bartley friends want the new e-mail address, let me know.
Speaking of Aletha, and her late husband, that gives me the opportunity to share a Christmas card sent to me last week. Yep, in 1990 Boyd sent the 100th Anniversary card of Dodger baseball to Bernie Gerl. Gerl, is was one of the members of the 1948 Duluth Dukes who was involved in the worst baseball accident in history. Gerl noted that Boyd Bartley was the manager of a team on which he played during WW II in the Philippines. I told Aletha about that card, and Gerl’s statement, and she said that Boyd was in charge sporting activities for soldiers on R & R.
This is the inscription on the card Bartley sent to Gerl: “Bernie, I was glad to hear from you and I do remember you. It was nice of you to drop me a line. I have worked for the Dodgers since 1943—47 years and am retiring January 1st. I am going fishing. If you do any of that maybe we can get together. Nice to hear from you and good luck.” Boyd Bartley—Dodger scout
One of the nicest things to happen to me was the invitation to attend the 6oth wedding anniversary for Boyd and Aletha in Ft. Worth, Texas. It doesn’t seem possible that has been 13 years ago. Aletha said, in her conversation this week, that she felt deprived that she only had Boyd around until he was almost 93. She admitted that she should be grateful for many wives lost their mates long before they reached that age. They came within a month of celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary.
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Constructed during the 1920s and opened on 16 July 1927, the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway was the dream of millionaire racing drivers Captain J.E.P. Howey and Count Louis Zborowski. Zborowski had constructed a railway at Higham Park, his home at Bridge, Kent, and agreed to donate the rolling stock and infrastructure to the project. Zborowski however was killed in a motor racing accident at Monza before the Romney Marsh site was chosen, and Howey continued the project alone.
The locomotives were designed by engineer Henry Greenly who worked with Captain J E P Howey. Greenly also served as the railway's first Chief Engineer.
Mountain Class 'Hercules' hauled the inaugural train from Hythe to New Romney with guests including the mayors of the two towns, and General Sir Ivor Maxse. Howey was not happy with just 8 miles (13 km) from New Romney to Hythe and he extended 5 1⁄2 miles (9 km) from New Romney to Dungeness. This section was originally double track, but is now single due to damage during World War II, when the line was taken over by the military. A miniature armoured train was used on the line. After the war the line re-opened between Hythe and New Romney in 1946, with the singled New Romney to Dungeness section reopened on 28 March 1947 by Laurel and Hardy.
As well as being a tourist attraction, this railway is a public service for the small towns and villages between Hythe and Dungeness and is under contract to the local council to transport children to and from The Marsh Academy in New Romney. The railway is expanding its role as part of the public transport network: Warren Halt re-opened in 2009 to provide a transport link to the Romney Marsh Visitor Centre, and discussions with local councils are taking place about the possible expansion of Burmarsh Road and the provision of a new station at the gravel pits in West Hythe, in connection with both the proposed extensive new housing construction and the need to provide alternative transport to the A259 coast road.
All ten original locomotives remain in service, covering thousands of miles each year. The fleet, already one of the largest of any 15-inch (380 mm) railway in Britain, was expanded in 1976 with German-built locomotive no.11 'Black Prince' (formerly 'Fleißiges Lieschen' = 'Busy Lizzie'). The RH&DR is still the only user of the 4-8-2 "Mountain" locomotive in the UK, with No. 6 'Samson' and No. 5 'Hercules' in regular service. Two diesels, No. 12 'John Southland'(- later renamed J B Snell in May 2014) and No. 14 (Nameless - later 'Captain Howey'), were constructed in the 1980s.
The line carries 100,000 passengers each year.
The railway celebrated its 80th birthday in 2007 with a week of celebrations including reconstructions of scenes on the railway over the previous eight decades.
Doing something different with another runway show... right click on image and see it bigger.
I have to say, this was the most unevenly lit event of this kind I've ever seen. As you can see, the lighting was like a small spotlight aimed right at the faces of the models. And certain parts of the runway were almost completely unlit.
These were taken at the Lisa Barron 2010/2010 Spring/Summer 10 Collection, presented in Melbourne’s unique Howey Place laneway at the rear of Collins234 – Boutique Place. This is her signature collection in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Victorian racing, complimented with a selection of Kim Fletcher Millinery. The parade will showcase exquisite day and evening wear pieces created with fabrics sourced from all over the world. - From www.msfw.com.au
Notes: Single shot, original framing, no-retouching, straight from RAW, etc.
RD11816. Captain J.E.P. Howey, the founder of the famous 15 inch gauge Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in Kent, South East England, also had an interest in motor cars. Indeed, he was a millionaire racing driver, so it isn't surprising that he had a Rolls Royce.
What is surprising, is that the Rolls Royce was converted to run on rails - and 15 inch gauge rails at that! Sadly, the vehicle no longer exists, but this is a model of it on display in the model railway exhibition situated above the café at New Romney Station.
Monday, 10th August, 2015. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Constructed during the 1920s and opened on 16 July 1927, the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway was the dream of millionaire racing drivers Captain J.E.P. Howey and Count Louis Zborowski. Zborowski had constructed a railway at Higham Park, his home at Bridge, Kent, and agreed to donate the rolling stock and infrastructure to the project. Zborowski however was killed in a motor racing accident at Monza before the Romney Marsh site was chosen, and Howey continued the project alone.
The locomotives were designed by engineer Henry Greenly who worked with Captain J E P Howey. Greenly also served as the railway's first Chief Engineer.
Mountain Class 'Hercules' hauled the inaugural train from Hythe to New Romney with guests including the mayors of the two towns, and General Sir Ivor Maxse. Howey was not happy with just 8 miles (13 km) from New Romney to Hythe and he extended 5 1⁄2 miles (9 km) from New Romney to Dungeness. This section was originally double track, but is now single due to damage during World War II, when the line was taken over by the military. A miniature armoured train was used on the line. After the war the line re-opened between Hythe and New Romney in 1946, with the singled New Romney to Dungeness section reopened on 28 March 1947 by Laurel and Hardy.
As well as being a tourist attraction, this railway is a public service for the small towns and villages between Hythe and Dungeness and is under contract to the local council to transport children to and from The Marsh Academy in New Romney. The railway is expanding its role as part of the public transport network: Warren Halt re-opened in 2009 to provide a transport link to the Romney Marsh Visitor Centre, and discussions with local councils are taking place about the possible expansion of Burmarsh Road and the provision of a new station at the gravel pits in West Hythe, in connection with both the proposed extensive new housing construction and the need to provide alternative transport to the A259 coast road.
All ten original locomotives remain in service, covering thousands of miles each year. The fleet, already one of the largest of any 15-inch (380 mm) railway in Britain, was expanded in 1976 with German-built locomotive no.11 'Black Prince' (formerly 'Fleißiges Lieschen' = 'Busy Lizzie'). The RH&DR is still the only user of the 4-8-2 "Mountain" locomotive in the UK, with No. 6 'Samson' and No. 5 'Hercules' in regular service. Two diesels, No. 12 'John Southland'(- later renamed J B Snell in May 2014) and No. 14 (Nameless - later 'Captain Howey'), were constructed in the 1980s.
The line carries 100,000 passengers each year.
The railway celebrated its 80th birthday in 2007 with a week of celebrations including reconstructions of scenes on the railway over the previous eight decades