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Mike Trent

March 23, 2005 09:08PM

They used to hang a waterbag on the flag stanchion on the side of the cab on the K-28's. They'd eventually wear paint off where they'd drag back and forth.
Toward the end of the season a couple of years it became hard at first glance to differentiate between 473 and 478 under the engineer's window.

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