Re: Looks like we got company at the CATS for awhile
| January 04, 2018 06:18PM |
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MSRRKevin Wrote:
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> I totally agree! Love seeing it in Chama! I just
> remember reading about some former park loco-
> motive (I thought it was #315) that got restored
> and there were gripes from locals about it oper-
> ating elsewhere because the original sale from
> the city to the restoration group stipulated that it
> remain in town for a certain percentage of the time.
You remember correctly, Kevin -
It WAS #315 that was subject to that stipulation. But you know how them polly-tishuns operate — according to my Uncle Claude's dictum, it's like this: "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time – and those are pretty good odds!" So they got ahold of this termite-ridden old Hollywood prop, painted it up, and snuck it back into the park under the cover of darkness, and now nobody's the wiser.*
- Willie
* Actually it's a different park, away from the main drag north of town. I bet none o' them n-i-m-b-y-s know it's not the real #315 . . .
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/05/2018 02:18PM by Johnson Barr.
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> I totally agree! Love seeing it in Chama! I just
> remember reading about some former park loco-
> motive (I thought it was #315) that got restored
> and there were gripes from locals about it oper-
> ating elsewhere because the original sale from
> the city to the restoration group stipulated that it
> remain in town for a certain percentage of the time.
You remember correctly, Kevin -
It WAS #315 that was subject to that stipulation. But you know how them polly-tishuns operate — according to my Uncle Claude's dictum, it's like this: "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time – and those are pretty good odds!" So they got ahold of this termite-ridden old Hollywood prop, painted it up, and snuck it back into the park under the cover of darkness, and now nobody's the wiser.*
- Willie
* Actually it's a different park, away from the main drag north of town. I bet none o' them n-i-m-b-y-s know it's not the real #315 . . .
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/05/2018 02:18PM by Johnson Barr.
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