Re: Connections on the CRRM Loop ... 
| May 23, 2011 11:24PM |
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HighCommander Wrote:
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> ... And you had to walk 10 miles to school through
> three feet of snow and it was uphill both ways ...
>
> After laying out on the ground year round trying
> repair stuff at the CRRM, I remember when the
> roundhouse was built and connected to the
> turntable. We were inside working on 346 in our
> shirt sleeves in January. I thought i had died and
> gone to heaven. We paid our dues. The roundhouse
> was connected to the turntable in 2001 enabling
> the volunteers to bring the equipment inside. We
> even have our own bathroom with hot and cold
> running water.
... An' de water-heater c'nected to de baff-room ...
... an' de baff-room c'nected to de work-shop ...
... an' de work-shop c'nected to de round-house ...
... an' de round-house c'nected to de turn-table ...
... an' de whirled goin' roun' an' a-round ...
Sorry, Bill - I couldn't resist!
- Russo
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> ... And you had to walk 10 miles to school through
> three feet of snow and it was uphill both ways ...
>
> After laying out on the ground year round trying
> repair stuff at the CRRM, I remember when the
> roundhouse was built and connected to the
> turntable. We were inside working on 346 in our
> shirt sleeves in January. I thought i had died and
> gone to heaven. We paid our dues. The roundhouse
> was connected to the turntable in 2001 enabling
> the volunteers to bring the equipment inside. We
> even have our own bathroom with hot and cold
> running water.
... An' de water-heater c'nected to de baff-room ...
... an' de baff-room c'nected to de work-shop ...
... an' de work-shop c'nected to de round-house ...
... an' de round-house c'nected to de turn-table ...
... an' de whirled goin' roun' an' a-round ...
Sorry, Bill - I couldn't resist!
- Russo
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