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Fred Folk

June 02, 2008 04:07PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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My dad worked in the loco shops on the Reading for 43 years,one uncle was an uplolster in the pass car dept. on the Reading and another uncle was a conductor on the Reading, Got to ride the cab of one of the last 2-8-0 camebacks when I was about 4 it switched the coaling tower in Reading, got to ride on the Reading Rambles behind the T 1's
Helped out in Chama during the first years along with Dan Ranger before the Friends, and now BOD and founder of the DRHS along with Jim Granflaten. Loved every minute, that's why we moved from Pa. to Colorado
Fred

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Lodging in Durango	Steve G.	June 07, 2008 11:51PM
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Re: My History of The Railroad.	railsnw	May 12, 2008 12:23PM
Re: My History of The Railroad.	Granflaten	May 30, 2008 10:22PM
Re: My History of The Railroad.	Sam	May 30, 2008 11:38PM
Re: My History of The Railroad.	Fred Folk	June 02, 2008 04:07PM
Re: My History of The Railroad.	Philip H. Walters	June 26, 2008 09:28AM
Re: My History of The Railroad.	Jason Rose	June 26, 2008 09:52AM
Re: My History of The Railroad.	Philip H. Walters	June 26, 2008 10:57AM
Re: My History of The Railroad. (NNG)	Jason Rose	June 26, 2008 11:27AM
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