Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for November 22, 2019

Running ahead of schedule? ✨

No, this is about the time when railroads start running their Santa trains.

Sixty years ago this month, an engine that looks like that was installed in Freedom Park in Charlotte, NC. Generations of kids played on that train.

Is Corky’s Diner in the coal car?

My guess yesterday, was pretty close, but wrong locomotive.

Why sure, just pull her into the parking lot and we’ll get right on it!

“Come ride the little train to the junction, Petticoat Junction!”

Watch out fer low water in th’ biler!!

So Corky’s now conveniently has a railroad running right next to it? Must be bad for business…

Most of the old locomotives ran at a lower temperature and pressure. Radiator hose and enough clamps will get you there. See what slim has at the garage.

I think that the train is off of the tracks.

Love the mistletoe express!

Maybe it’s an engine from the Cliffside Railroad, featured once in GASOLINE ALLEY. Jim Scancarelli has attended Cliffside Days celebrations. The old steam engine ran from the mill in Cliffside to the Seaboard (now CSX) connection in Ellenboro.

So, did “Ol’ Sally” run over Rudolph the Reindeer and that is why his antlers are on her headlight?

Busted water line?! … Armored hose?!

Possibly analogous to what Terry is going through right NOW??!! Hmmmmmm!…

That’s like a burst aneurysm in people. and make sure the water level doesn’t get too low or it could put Ol’ Sally in a ditch in Stockbridge, Massachusetts .

It has antlers! Traindeer?