For me, even the memory of the smell of a locomotive is swamped by the
memory of its sound: the way it really seems to be breathing, not just
making noise, and the shudder of its breath fills the air around you and
in you and makes your own breath and heartbeat move at the same rate.
That's another one I haven't experienced for a long time, not since the
middle '70s.

Tom Conroy


 Ed Bell wrote:
> Thomas Conroy wrote:
>
> > 230303 =A0=A0=A0 Phil Schempf wrote: "...I was in New Zealand and
> > smelled a smell that was
> familiar, but I couldn't place it.=A0 Finally dawned on me it was
> coal smoke
> >
> > It seems you never forget that spicy coal-forge smell.
>
> Or the smell of a coal fired steam locomotive.
>
> Ed
>
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