Re: "Blessed are the Curmudgeons, for they are Timeless" ... 
| July 27, 2014 11:31AM |
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The Troll JéBêWèX Wrote:
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> What I hate about {the above} picture ...
> ... is I took it over half a century ago.
> Damn.
Count your blessings, Gramps -
You were born early enough to see the tank cars in action, and late enough that you will
hopefully get to see eight or nine of them in a re-enacted 'Cumbres Turn' next year!!
(See [ngdiscussion.net] et seq.)
- Willie
p.s. What I hate about that picture is that, like Roosso, I never got to take one anything at all like it ...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/27/2014 11:35AM by Johnson Barr.
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> What I hate about {the above} picture ...
> ... is I took it over half a century ago.
> Damn.
Count your blessings, Gramps -
You were born early enough to see the tank cars in action, and late enough that you will
hopefully get to see eight or nine of them in a re-enacted 'Cumbres Turn' next year!!
(See [ngdiscussion.net] et seq.)
- Willie
p.s. What I hate about that picture is that, like Roosso, I never got to take one anything at all like it ...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/27/2014 11:35AM by Johnson Barr.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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