Canadian Railroads > Her Majesty is a pretty nice girl

Princess (now Queen) Elizabeth in the engineer's seat of CN steam for a run on the Edson Sub.

BobE

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But she doesn't have a lot to say...
 

M-420 Wrote:
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> But she doesn't have a lot to say...
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Just "what does this do?"  

Boom.

BobE

BobE Wrote:
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> BobE

More like, "this is too dirty for me"

Isn't brake application as important as throttle operation?  Give her credit.

Steve Donaldson
Pacific Grove, CA

EL-SD45-3632 Wrote:
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> More like, "this is too dirty for me"

I don't think so. Her Majesty was a mechanic and truck driver during WWII.

https://time.com/5287517/world-war-ii-queen-elizabeth-photo/

EL-SD45-3632 Wrote:
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> More like, "this is too dirty for me"

Her sister never said that...

Have you seen the TV show (Biography)" about the "Queen and it shows " her, driving her Range Rover?
That lady can shift gears and drive with the best of them!!! :):):)
She is probably a better drive than the hubby !!! :):):)

I was near Balmoral in 1995, and the back gates swung open.  Approaching the Castle, was a green Jaguar sedan.  As it passed by, it was very obvious, that the driver was Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.  Only wish I had the camera ready, but certainly did not expect to see her.

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> More like, "this is too dirty for me"

Probably not. She was a mechanic and truck driver during WWII. I've seen video of her driving her Land Rover across the countryside like a railfan chasing a steam engine.

TAW

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That experience underpins an important scene in the movie, "The Queen", in which Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth. The queen is driving her Land Rover briskly (yup, about like a railfan chase vehicle) out to an area where Prince Philip and the recently deceased Princess Diana's sons are hunting. She fords a stream, and the Rover stops cold, and she can't get it going again. She crawls underneath, muttering about her experience as a mechanic during the war, to find that the front prop shaft had disengaged. Not something many people would recognize without some solid mechanical experience, which she definitely had.

And as far as her being seated on the engineer's seatbox of that CN engine, she looks very interested and engaged. Not at all offended by the complexity of the backhead (she looks very interested in it all to me), nor the grit and mechanics of railroading. As history would show for decades to come, Her Majesty was a determined, tough lady, quite worthy of respect and admiration.

Thanks for posting a fine historical image.

MC
Muskegon, Michigan



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 04/07/20 06:24 by ironmtn.

I think she was about to say, "We are intrigued by the arrangement of the driver's controls on the right side of the engine."

RRTom Wrote:
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> I think she was about to say, "We are intrigued by
> the arrangement of the driver's controls on the
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Or "hand me the goggles, and let's move this thing!"

And we can thank her parents, particularly her Mum for calling what would become Royal Hudson' as lovely engines.  Thankfully King George VI allowed the moniker to be official.