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Kevin S.

March 26, 2011 07:53PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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I do not have a photograph, but the box car given to Louisiana is located outside the old State Capital, is covered, and well preserved.

Due to the heavy French influence in Louisiana, the car was well taken care of (Louisiana is a former French colony, has a French codified legal system called the Napoleonic Code, and some parts of the state French, albeit a "patois," is still spoken, though not as much as just a few decades past.

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Re: 40et8	D&RGW 223	March 26, 2011 02:51PM
Re: French "Merci" cars.	Stewart Rhine	March 26, 2011 05:28PM
Re: 40et8	Car57	March 26, 2011 06:32PM
Re: 40et8 in Baton Rouge, LA	Kevin S.	March 26, 2011 07:53PM
Merci train 40 & 8 cars	Ken Martin	March 27, 2011 09:02AM

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