Another of those adventures many, many years ago that we shared,* John -
But so far as I can remember (lucky for you?), we never met, and it was several years before I wrote
'The Ballad of Festus Frothjaw' so I wasn't the target of a few dozen snowballs like I have been in later years
. . .
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Roosso
* See [
ngdiscussion.net] et seq for additional photos and 'The Rest of the Story'.
p.s. The logistics of feeding oil burners when they're away from home are a LOT less complicated than for coal-fired engines — no portable substitutes for Red Devil Loaders or coaling towers are required. Here's ex-T&P #610 being refueled very late one evening while the Freedom Train was being displayed on the base at Fort Worth, Texas, in February, 1976
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/13/2019 03:47PM by Russo Loco.