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ebtrr

July 15, 2008 06:48AM

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ebtrr Wrote:
> > No. 18 suffered some sort of mechanical problem
> > right before the end that led to No. 17's
> pulling
> > the final narrow-gauge trains, but what that
> > problem was no one seems to know exactly.
>
> Have heard cracked piston and broken rod. Neither
> appear to be true. The other version is that the
> engineer on the last run wanted to run #18 and so
> said there was something wrong with #17.

Make that "the engineer on the last run wanted to run #17 and so said there was something wrong with #18."

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