Re: 0584?
| March 24, 2014 09:15PM |
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South Park Wrote:
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> And it it was an old coach or a locomotive
> discovered abandoned along the right of way ?
> Best to just leave that too and try to buy a new
> one, right ?
>
> Funny how we think in terms of "value" and what
> is worth saving vs. not worth the bother.
> Remember, boys and girls, at one time all this
> stuff was considered not worth bothering to save
> and only eccentrics and fruitcakes did so.
I wouldn't mind getting a yard or two of it just for the history and to display in my home telegraph office ......
Skip Luke
Switchman (ret): Grand Canyon Railway;
Engineer (ret): Georgetown Loop RR Inc., Sumpter Valley Ry., Monticello & Sangamon Valley;
Dispatcher(ret): Illinois Central, White Pass & Yukon, Burlington Northern Ry.
Mariner, Musician, Miner
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> And it it was an old coach or a locomotive
> discovered abandoned along the right of way ?
> Best to just leave that too and try to buy a new
> one, right ?
>
> Funny how we think in terms of "value" and what
> is worth saving vs. not worth the bother.
> Remember, boys and girls, at one time all this
> stuff was considered not worth bothering to save
> and only eccentrics and fruitcakes did so.
I wouldn't mind getting a yard or two of it just for the history and to display in my home telegraph office ......
Skip Luke
Switchman (ret): Grand Canyon Railway;
Engineer (ret): Georgetown Loop RR Inc., Sumpter Valley Ry., Monticello & Sangamon Valley;
Dispatcher(ret): Illinois Central, White Pass & Yukon, Burlington Northern Ry.
Mariner, Musician, Miner
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