Re: The Passing of D&RGW Engineer Carl Jack (Update)
| April 07, 2017 11:35PM |
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cjack476 Wrote:
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> So I'm bitter sweet to say that I have been
> offered and have accepted a job on the D&SNG as a
> brakeman on my days off at the high school. Sweet
> that I have been looking to get on the railroad
> since I could remember and it's coming true.
> Bitter cause I wanted to make the announcement to
> the one hero of it all, my great uncle Carl Jack..
> SO I will be the one that continues the line of
> railroaders on the narrow gauge and I'll get to
> see the first fire placed into the 76's firebox to
> awaken her from her long slumber...
I'm quite sure than Carl will be smiling about your new job....
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> So I'm bitter sweet to say that I have been
> offered and have accepted a job on the D&SNG as a
> brakeman on my days off at the high school. Sweet
> that I have been looking to get on the railroad
> since I could remember and it's coming true.
> Bitter cause I wanted to make the announcement to
> the one hero of it all, my great uncle Carl Jack..
> SO I will be the one that continues the line of
> railroaders on the narrow gauge and I'll get to
> see the first fire placed into the 76's firebox to
> awaken her from her long slumber...
I'm quite sure than Carl will be smiling about your new job....
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