Re: Pupmobiles on the Seward Peninsula Railroad
| January 05, 2019 11:32PM |
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Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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I went there
> in the fall of 1993 to dig a set of narrow gauge
> flat car trucks out of the tundra and get them
> shipped to Pasco, Washington. The trucks were
> intended for building a new tender for 1878 Porter
> 0-6-0 "Blue Mountain" , ex-Walla Walla & Columbia
> River RR that ran on the Seward Peninsula RR from
> 1905 to 1910. That is a story to be related some
> day.
Olaf, look familiar?
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Doug Frederick, Chama, New Mexico.
"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
Slimrail Fan is 6.5 time zones, Pacific to Atlantic.
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I went there
> in the fall of 1993 to dig a set of narrow gauge
> flat car trucks out of the tundra and get them
> shipped to Pasco, Washington. The trucks were
> intended for building a new tender for 1878 Porter
> 0-6-0 "Blue Mountain" , ex-Walla Walla & Columbia
> River RR that ran on the Seward Peninsula RR from
> 1905 to 1910. That is a story to be related some
> day.
Olaf, look familiar?
~
Doug Frederick, Chama, New Mexico.
"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
Slimrail Fan is 6.5 time zones, Pacific to Atlantic.
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