Steven Folino, Author at The Fungus & Mungus Railroad

Logging Camp 2

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Open HouseApril 17, 2024

It’s that time again. What time, you ask? It’s time for our second open house. We held the first one last August and then spent several months working some bugs out. Now, we’re ready.

A Night Watchman’s TaleDecember 17, 2023

Twas the night before Christmas and across the pike Not a locomotive was running not even the ol’ Mike. Their fireboxes cold, their ashes all dumped; There was nary a car in the yard to be humped. The railyard was quiet, nary a sound could be heard; In the dark of the night nothing did stir. A flurry of snow is expected tonight; I’d better hurry, the old pot belly to light. As the moon rose so high in the sky that night I knew that everything would soon be alright. I had just settled into the old watchman’s chair;…

Leonor Mine Sets RecordDecember 10, 2023

Justin Case, Fungus Mines’ Foreman, announced that the Leonor mine set a one-day record of 60 tons of high-grade unobtanium being shipped. That’s three full rails cars. Case said that they had reached a particularly rich vein deep in the mine. F.M.R.R. Locomotive No 39 operated by Lionel Trane with Justin Thyme as the conductor and Willie Stoker as the fireman waiting for the loading of two cars of unobtanium at the Fungus Mines Leonor Mine.

Hobo Camp SpottedDecember 3, 2023

Hobos have once again been spotted camping at the Old Pickens place south of the sawmill. The place has been abandoned since old man Pickens passed away nearly 10 years ago. Since no one quite knows who now owns the place, the sheriff is reluctant to run them off.

New Sawmill is OperationalNovember 29, 2023

Hubert “Hugh” Mungus, President of the Hugh Mungus Timber Company, I.B. Sawyer, Superintendent of the Hugh Mungus Sawmill, and I.M. Cutter, Sawmill Foreman, are pleased to announce that construction of the new Hugh Mungus Sawmill has been completed and it is now fully operational. The new sawmill with the capacity to process 40 logs per day replaces the mill formerly on this site that was destroyed by fire last spring.

Open House

A Night Watchman’s Tale

Leonor Mine Sets Record

Hobo Camp Spotted

New Sawmill is Operational

Our Latest Locomotive

Open House

232 Days

The Fungus Mines

Logging Camp 2