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     Harry Kuurio Experienced User Username: harry_kuurio Post Number: 19 Registered: 4-2004 |
Hi Gents and Ladys, anyone attending this show? I am, and it would be nice to meet the fellow enthusiasts in person. I believe our make(s) are represented well once again, too. RT, are you coming? Anyone else? DH | ||
| Richard Treacy Grand Master Username: richard_treacy Post Number: 655 Registered: 4-2003 |
DH: Essen, maybe. Essen is a bit of a drive from here though. Who ever thought that Nokia is Japanese by the way ? Perhaps it's just that I have spent over a year altogether in Helsinki and Hyvinkää of Kone fame. RT. | ||
| Harry Kuurio Experienced User Username: harry_kuurio Post Number: 20 Registered: 4-2004 |
RT, I've been told that most US citizens (at least used to) think that Nokia has to come from Japan since it's high-tech. Small is the world. I live just 10kms north of Hyvinkää! Will be attending Essen on the 7th April. We'll be doing a coverage of the show for the Finnish national TV network. Small camera crew. DH | ||
| Richard Treacy Grand Master Username: richard_treacy Post Number: 666 Registered: 4-2003 |
Hyvinkää! My Waterloo. Remember the VR Sr2 ? I lost my shirt on those locomotives. I visited and stayed over a 6-year period. We built the first ones completely there, and only finished the modifications to the rest, all at Hyvinkää just a few years ago. | ||
| Richard Treacy Grand Master Username: richard_treacy Post Number: 667 Registered: 4-2003 |
DH: You may remember the press we had on blue wheels (Overheated, blue-discoloured and worn out new locomotive wheels in Winter due to the traction control working overtime for just a few thousands of kilometers on micro snow) ?. Every week I had to fly home on Finnair and be presented with a brochure extolling Blue Wings (for those unknowing, Blue Wings was the then in-flight Finnair magazine) !! My wife wondered why I was stressed out by spending so much time in laid-back Finland. RT. | ||
| Harry Kuurio Experienced User Username: harry_kuurio Post Number: 21 Registered: 4-2004 |
RT, Well, that's Finland for you, surely. The conditions vary here in a big way. Winter is cold as Siberia and darker than Richie Blackmore's favourite colour; summers can be truly hot with constant (yes!) daylight (sun never goes down...). My wife commutes with VR every day, and assures you and all that there's nothing laid-back travelling the Finnish trains - I mean, they are so laid-back that the travellers are set-up all the time. Time-tables are just for laugh! Blue wheels? Come on, trains are for suckers! (No, truly I'm just jealous... eh...). On a more serious note, when was it last you visited Hyvinkää? There seems to be an increasing chance we've met co-incidentally a few years ago! Have you decided about Essen? Where is it you actually live, may I ask? Best regards, DH |
