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Article: Daily excursions out of Amsterdam simple as A-B-Zee
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 26, 1988
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MEDEMBLIK, the Netherlands The quaint little 0-4-0 burbled quietly
in the sun, steam drifting from her gleaming cylinders while the
engineer "oiled around" with a long-spouted can.
In a few minutes, the newly restored 1914 locomotive huffed,
chuffed and puffed slowly off to Hoorn 12 miles to the south, her
four small drivers gripping the rails in proper elbow-pumping
"I-think-I-can, I-think-I-can" fashion.
Four times a day, the steamer tugs half a dozen roly-poly
coaches (including buffet car) for 60 minutes down the Stoomtram
Hoorn-Medemblik between the two picturesque towns on the IJsselmeer,
the freshwater lake formed by the impoundment of Holland's old
saltwater Zuider Zee. The ...