Re: Online Steam Loco Database ... & stories!!
| July 22, 2009 07:14AM |
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Russo Loco Wrote:
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> It's also potentially a great site for posting
> little-known stories about the locomotives,
> not just tech info.
>
> (Things like #4449 getting a parking ticket at
> Girardeli (sp?) Square in 1975,
> or the stuffed-toy sheep in the cab of #844)* ...
>
>
> * "Uncle Pete, just like Bo Peep, Loves his dear
> Wyoming sheep ... "
Or the day that the 765's crew stopped in a diner to have dinner...only to look out and see their berk running away. It's never happened since!
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> It's also potentially a great site for posting
> little-known stories about the locomotives,
> not just tech info.
>
> (Things like #4449 getting a parking ticket at
> Girardeli (sp?) Square in 1975,
> or the stuffed-toy sheep in the cab of #844)* ...
>
>
> * "Uncle Pete, just like Bo Peep, Loves his dear
> Wyoming sheep ... "
Or the day that the 765's crew stopped in a diner to have dinner...only to look out and see their berk running away. It's never happened since!
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Miserlou57 | July 21, 2009 12:21AM |
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Russo Loco | July 21, 2009 04:30AM |
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Miserlou57 | July 21, 2009 02:42PM |
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Russo Loco | July 21, 2009 06:09PM |
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Rich Murray | July 21, 2009 05:06AM |
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gbrewer | July 21, 2009 06:48AM |
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Russo Loco | July 21, 2009 07:21AM |
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gbrewer | July 21, 2009 07:26AM |
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myork | July 21, 2009 09:52AM |
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Miserlou57 | July 21, 2009 03:22PM |
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o anderson | July 21, 2009 08:29PM |
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Miserlou57 | July 21, 2009 03:00PM |
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myork | July 21, 2009 08:07PM |
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Russo Loco | July 21, 2009 09:19PM |
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myork | July 22, 2009 07:14AM |
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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