Fritz Klinke Wrote:
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> May those stacks rest in peace.
> They were an abomination, pure
> and simple
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Ed Stabler Wrote:
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> Amen, Fritz.
Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Anyway, don't take Willie too serious -
> he ain't nohow permanent
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Abomination or not, gentlemen -
They were a part of Narrow Gauge History for well over twenty years, IIRC, and no more of an abomination than the paint scheme D&RGW #483 wore for a few weeks in the fall of 1968 and again as C&TS #483 in the fall of 1970. If a truly hideous abomination like #483 in her Hollyweird circus colors is worthy of
replication commemoration for a few days forty years later, then certainly the much longer lived abomination of the diamond stacks is also worthy of a brief reenactment roughly forty years later. IMHO, to dress up #473 for a few days in August, 2015 as she looked circa August, 1975 would be, as William Shakespeare once said (in
All's Well That Ends Well ), "as fit as a pancake for Shrove Tuesday." *
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
"Not All Who Have Cell-Phones Do Twitter
"Not All Those Who Ponder Can Think ... "
* Note that today IS Shrove Tuesday
... at least insofar as some non-worshipers of the Pagan god Vulcan are concerned.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/2015 02:38PM by Johnson Barr.