Last June 21, a Saturday, Mrs. Mullan and I decided to do a little railfanning.
We had to get a little fuel for the Grand Am first..and we stopped at a station near Frostburg and this beautiful automobile was there..I had to have photos!



Hard to tell how much this lovely machine is worth..a very, very nice restoration. I didn't have much time to speak with the owner, but he did tell me this Rolls was built in the USA.
Back to Frostburg, here's 734 on the table.

Used the 55mm 3.5 Micro Nikkor for that one.
A shot of Mrs. Mullan taking a photo of 734 on the turntable.

Here's a shot of 734's rods, also with the Micro Nikkor:

Another with the Micro Nikkor:

That's the throttle handle in the uppper left corner..it's not really green, just reflecting the outside foliage.
Hotshot in the cab:

Playing engineer!

We left Frostburg, and went to Cumberland via Mt Savage. This was an industrial town in past days, and these old gears from some of the mill works are formed into a display there:

The largest gear is almost five feet in diameter.

We slip over to the CSX locomotive shops at Cumberland and find these jewels in the back yard:

This Canton RR is based at Baltimore, MD, and does interchange work for NS/CSX.
I don't know if they were worked on at Cumberland, could have been just passing
through on their way to Baltimore.

And the last item is as we started, another neat automobile. This one not as valuable as the Rolls Royce, but sure stirred these old bones:

This nifty was sitting just a few yards from the Canton locomotives in a CSX parking lot. She had new tires and exhaust, and looks like she's just ready to restore. The wheels indicated it has the WS-6 option..and it does. I looked under her to see, it had the brackets on the frame which were used to stiffen the suspension for that option.

All in all, one fun day.

Ed

Ed -

I'll give you 24 hours to return my Rolls to me - O.J.

Lights, if you could sell that Rolls for what it's valued, you no doubt could build a darn nice home!
I would guess several hundred thousands for that one.

Ed

Wow, both the Rolls and the 734 in one day. Talk about a dream.

Ed, GREAT pictures as usual. Thanks for posting.

Ed, great photos! Thanks for sharing! BTW, what's that sticking out from behind the building in your first photo? Looks like the rear of a newer Rolls.
Phil

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behind the building in your first photo?

Bentley?

It was a Rolls, also. So says Mrs. Mullan. I was so entranced with the old one, I never saw the newer one until they left. I asked Lynn how she knew it was a Rolls, too. "Simple," she says. "I saw it written on it"!

In a way, the older Rolls makes me think of standard gauge trains. The colors, those greens, seem similar with some of those old Lionel trains. And,back in the day, you can almost imagine that car being owned by a family with a huge home which would have a room full of standard gauge!


Ed

Ed, thanks for the memories, That Rolls is what I saw every weekend at my dads parking garages in Phila when I was a kid. His was exact accept it was brown. We would wipe it down together on Sunday evening and take mom out for dinner after we came back from an afternoon drive up and down the Garden State Parkway. We never took the Rolls for that drive. I always picked the CORD. We were not rich; Dad just had some nice cars that he bought from people that hit bad times from the Stock Market Crash era. We had a 1917 Hisspanosawesa (spelling Sorry) 1929 Rolls, 1929 L-29 Cord, 1931 Model A cabriolet, 1938 Packard convertible.

Thanks again for the memories!

Those were the days, huh! I had two of those Trans-Ams. None with those neat wheels and the WS-6 option though. I loved driving them and even riding in them!
If I would be allowed to drive that Rolls or the Trans-Am..I'd be hard pressed to make a decision.
It is great to have those memories, isn't it.

Ed

I hate to be a party pooper, but I don't even want to guess what kind of gas mileage that Rolls gets!

KL