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Jim Adams

October 13, 2000 09:19PM

We were there on a Rocky Club trip shortly after the 492 hit the rock. The story we got was that the engineer, who had neen on that run for years,noticed that the usual profile of the cliffs had changed and immediately "wiped the slate" but was unable to stop in time to avoid hitting the rock. I believe it was around a curve from where he set the brakes. Anyway, the story was that it would have been much worse if it hadn't been for the observant engineer.

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Remaining 490 class locomotives	Kevin Williams	October 07, 2000 11:24AM
Re: Remaining 490 class locomotives	Sam March	October 07, 2000 02:30PM
Re: Remaining 490 class locomotives	Josh McNeal	October 08, 2000 01:09AM
Juke's Rock	Sam March	October 08, 2000 07:54PM
Re: Juke's Rock	John	October 09, 2000 08:14AM
Sigh... one more bit of history gone.	Sam March	October 09, 2000 05:29PM
Re: Juke's Rock	Roy	October 09, 2000 05:46PM
Re: Juke's Rock	John Templeton	October 10, 2000 12:56PM
No more Apache Nugget Casino???	Sam March	October 10, 2000 08:56PM
Re: No more Apache Nugget Casino???	John Templeton	October 11, 2000 07:33AM
Re: Juke's Rock	Gary Waite	October 12, 2000 05:58PM
Re: Juke's Rock	Jim Adams	October 13, 2000 09:19PM
Re: Juke's Rock	John Templeton	October 14, 2000 08:26AM
Re: Juke's Rock	Jim Adams	October 14, 2000 09:02AM
Telegraphers stories	Don	October 14, 2000 09:41AM
Re: Telegraphers stories	John Templeton	October 14, 2000 10:17AM
Re: Juke's Rock - approximate M.P. location	Bill Malin	October 14, 2000 12:09PM
492 Rock PIC	Sam March	October 14, 2000 01:38PM
Re: 492 Rock	John Templeton	October 14, 2000 05:59PM
Re: 492 Rock	Bill Malin	October 14, 2000 08:51PM
Re: Juke's Rock - approximate M.P. location	matt j.	October 17, 2000 08:47AM

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