Re: A Railroad Saga... (add to it)...

Billy slowed the Hog when they came abreast the caboose, and Punk climbed down and swung off.
Jojo came over and said " Hey, we just got a full tank of water, and we ain't gonna use much of that or coal getting back up the road, but I been eyeballing our coal supply, and mebbe we ought to stop at that coal tipple where the Yankee Boy mine is just the other side of Horse Creek and swipe us a ton or two of coal, just so we won't run out and stall on the hill ourselfs."
Billy thought that would probably be a good idea..."No sense having two engines fail up there, if we can do anything to avoid it", he thought....He said to Jojo "We'll get more water at Horse Creek Tank too, just to make sure we got as much of everything on here we can possibly get...No telling what we'll run into up there." He widened on the throttle a bit, but didn't want to run too fast in reverse...it wouldn'd do to derail himself before they got the engine turned at Horse Creek......