Re: Ah-Yup, "it's all tank trucks . . . "

Another of those adventures many, many years ago that we shared,* John -

But so far as I can remember (lucky for you?), we never met, and it was several years before I wrote 'The Ballad of Festus Frothjaw' so I wasn't the target of a few dozen snowballs like I have been in later years . . .

- Roosso

*  See [ngdiscussion.net] et seq for additional photos and 'The Rest of the Story'.

p.s.  The logistics of feeding oil burners when they're away from home are a LOT less complicated than for coal-fired engines — no portable substitutes for Red Devil Loaders or coaling towers are required.  Here's ex-T&P #610 being refueled very late one evening while the Freedom Train was being displayed on the base at Fort Worth, Texas, in February, 1976:




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