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Wayne Laepple

October 03, 2015 05:31PM

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Way back around 1962 or so, I was riding an open-window coach on a Reading Iron Horse Ramble, and near the commuter car yard at West Trenton, NJ, I lost my hat. It had a tag in it with my name and address on it, and several days later the hat arrived in the mail, with a nice note from a Reading engineer who had picked it up. We developed a nice pen pal friendship that lasted until he died a few years later. He shared a number of stories of his adventures as a fireman on camelback 10-wheelers and end-cab Pacifics on commuter trains before the diesels came.

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The perils of riding in an open car	CharlieMcCandless	October 03, 2015 12:26PM
Re: The perils of riding in an open car	Jeff Ramsey	October 03, 2015 04:04PM
Re: The perils of riding in an open car	et&wnc	October 09, 2015 03:12PM
Re: The perils of riding in an open car	Wayne Laepple	October 03, 2015 05:31PM
Re: The perils of riding in an open car	Russo Loco	October 05, 2015 03:31AM
Re: The perils of riding in an open car	DWBrown	October 05, 2015 12:36PM
Re: The perils of riding in an open car	CharlieMcCandless	October 06, 2015 05:38PM
Re: The perils of riding in an open car	Mark Petersen	October 09, 2015 03:43PM
Re: The perils of riding in an open car	Samart	October 09, 2015 07:19PM

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