Brian Norden Wrote:
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> Earl Wrote:
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> > It has always amused me that people in far off
> > Alaska would nick-name a locomotive after a
> > Sonoran Desert reptile.... I wonder if anyone
> in
> > Skagway has ever seen a Gila Monster.
>
> Maybe or maybe not.
> But, a Gila Monster is described as "A heavy,
> typically slow-moving lizard." Would that also
> describe the 69?
>
> BN
Works for me! The one time I saw it was 1988 on a return trip for riding a UP 3985 trip. One of my Railfan buddies said "You should stop at the Stuhr Museum in Nebraska and shoot their NG train".
Well we did so, and while interesting was really slow and trundely!!! I vowed I would never go back!!! It was in an old VHS tape we had for sale years ago called "American Steam-Vol 1". I broke it up and put some parts in other shows that became DVD's, but never the 69 at Stuhr. While perhaps historic, it is by no means exciting footage!!! Hey I tell it like it is, even if I shot it!!!!
Glad it got moved back home though!
Greg