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Ed Stabler

December 03, 2006 07:04AM

Few people were stirring at daybreak that morning in 1893 in the small, somewhat dreary community of Burning Switch, Montana. A short, southbound mised train made it's smoky way out of the canyon north of town and stopped to take on water at the dilapidated, ice-coated tank just across the track from the old boxcar which served more or less as a depot. Billy Thompson, making his first pay trip as a newly promoted engineer, eased down from the cab of the little Baldwin 2-8-0, oil can in hand.....

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SG Burning Switch	Casey Akin aka: kitBASHer	December 02, 2006 05:50PM
Re: SG Burning Switch	Paul D	December 02, 2006 06:02PM
Re: SG Burning Switch	Casey Akin aka: kitBASHer	December 02, 2006 07:46PM
Re: SG Burning Switch	Nick Gully	December 02, 2006 07:59PM
Re: SG Burning Switch	Robert	December 02, 2006 08:04PM
Re: SG Burning Switch	Steve Thompson	December 02, 2006 08:25PM
Re: SG Burning Switch	J.B.Bane	December 02, 2006 08:28PM
Re: SG Burning Switch	Rick Steele	December 02, 2006 09:05PM
Couldn't resist this...add to it ...	Ed Stabler	December 03, 2006 07:04AM
The Grand and Glorious Christmas Saga add to it...	Rick Steele	December 04, 2006 08:11AM

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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter

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