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a touching winter story

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a touching winter story
Posted by FJ and G on Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:41 PM

The wind howled mercilously, carrying with it cold and ice. Yet, there was a shrub that miraculously bloomed in winter; a miracle of things to come...l

 

 Ice coated the mainline, making travel by rail trecherous and deadly

out of nowhere, came a runaway flatcar with a hound atop it. It careened across the icy trestle, but the rails were coated with a thick layer of ice and the flatcar came to rest with the hapless hound aboard. Where was its owner? It might freeze to death. The poor thing!

 But my some miracle, possibly the same miracle that caused the bush to bloom during the blizzard, our hapless hero made her way home, guided by the faint scent of beef jerky in the distance. She is now warm and safe and full of a bag of beef jerky.

 

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Posted by Capt Bob Johnson on Thursday, February 15, 2007 2:36 PM

Has somebody got cabin fever???

Actually I like this story stuff, it does take imagination!

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Posted by toenailridgesl on Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:59 PM
 Capt Bob Johnson wrote:

Actually I like this story stuff, it does take imagination!

You want GR stories? http://www.trainweb.org/toenailridge/book.html

34 chapters so far.... 

Phil Creer, The Toenail Ridge Shortline,  Adelaide Sth Oz http://www.trainweb.org/toenailridge toparo ergo sum
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Posted by Railfan1 on Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:09 PM
Thumbs Up [tup]
"It's a great day to be alive" "Of all the words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been......"
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Posted by hoofe116 on Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:43 PM

FJ&G:

That was neat. Gave me a grin. Keep it up.

Les Whitaker

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 16, 2007 1:50 AM

Me too, i would give anything for a bitof cold weather.

Rgds ian

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