Re: One of my all-time favorite narrow gauge memories . . .
| July 22, 2017 07:51PM |
Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> > . . . Even slept in my sleeping bag
> up on
> > the tender of the 15 one hot summer night.
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>
> Thank You for the reminder, Tom -
>
> MANY decades ago (roughly 5.5), I regularly passed
> through Durango on my way to and from General
> Palmer's little college in Colo. Spgs. (where Ed
> Stabler's dad was a much-loved perfesser), and
> after a burger & beer at the Western Steak House
> (across from The Strater), I would head down to
> the (in those days) wide-open yard and catch a few
> winks – or several – in the warm cab
> of a 2-8-2 whose fire had been banked in
> anticipation of a trip east in the next day or two
> . . .
>
> - Roosso
You know what I remember about being up there Russ?
Almost the entire surface was piled with leaves. I made
pretty certain that there was nothing alive before I spread
my bag and settled down for the night.
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> Tom Moungovan Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > . . . Even slept in my sleeping bag
> up on
> > the tender of the 15 one hot summer night.
>
>
> Thank You for the reminder, Tom -
>
> MANY decades ago (roughly 5.5), I regularly passed
> through Durango on my way to and from General
> Palmer's little college in Colo. Spgs. (where Ed
> Stabler's dad was a much-loved perfesser), and
> after a burger & beer at the Western Steak House
> (across from The Strater), I would head down to
> the (in those days) wide-open yard and catch a few
> winks – or several – in the warm cab
> of a 2-8-2 whose fire had been banked in
> anticipation of a trip east in the next day or two
> . . .
>
> - Roosso
You know what I remember about being up there Russ?
Almost the entire surface was piled with leaves. I made
pretty certain that there was nothing alive before I spread
my bag and settled down for the night.
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