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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, February 6, 2006 6:34 AM
And, in comes Foghorn Leghorn, and says, "Boy, and I mean Boy, you've got
a lot to learn. . ." "Get with the program: cause there's a train a coming down
the tracks!"[(-D][(-D]
Angel cherokee woman "O'Toole's law: Murphy was an optimist."
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Posted by bnsfkline on Sunday, February 5, 2006 10:15 PM
And this topic is DEAD
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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:22 PM
investigate,and found out that Alco diesel prime movers were being built,but now by Fairbanks Morse.The business dealings behind this were completely beyond thier comprehension,but they decided that any locomotives they built would have Alco diesels in them.
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:13 PM
some common sence on how to run a great business. They had no idea what they were getting into and just wanted to take it over. They began to

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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 3:56 PM
The formed a new name, something to do wtih green something, and they began there hunt. They had the money, the weasels always have that. They just needed....
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Posted by espeefoamer on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 2:08 PM
...the weasels,learning that EMD was for sale,began devising a neferious plan to buy it[:0]!
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 12:31 PM
Everyone should be glad that the logo changing stopped with only one railroad. Railroading will go on, but BNSF has been changed forever. As everyone began to calm back down...

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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 4:10 PM
Unfortunately the damage had been done to the BNSF, and the weasels had forged the BNSF president signature and sent a letter and decals to all yards to apply new logos to all of the engines as they rolled through, including the warbonnets.
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 12:47 PM
Every railroad had its logo copyrighted so no one,not even the weasels,could touch them.
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 12:17 PM
With all the railroads in the country now at risk of having thier logos changed...

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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 3:53 PM
decided to go to work on the UP logo. Problem was scaggy now owned the UP, and he wouldn't let them get to them. When he realized what they had done to the BNSF logo, he would let them touch his, not even the UP! He imediately began a plan of action, starting by calling the state department to warn them of the danger to the country, nobody would ride an Amtrak, especially with a bad logo!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:14 PM
The weasels must have drained all the creativity out of the BNSF paint scheme blatantly riping off the AC Delco logo. The weasels then...
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:16 PM
He found where the weasels were hiding and when he got there he found them busily designing the new BNSF paint scheme[:0]!
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 3:45 PM
rather bizzar. The weasels began to slowly buy out other railroads. They didn't just try to take them over, they bought them legaly. Scaggy got to thinking that there ahd to be some thing fishy, and he planned to find out.
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:34 PM
Now with the weasels on the loose, all the railroads may be doomed! What happened next was...

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Posted by espeefoamer on Monday, January 24, 2005 2:29 PM
NEWS FLASH![:0]. The weasels have escaped and are on the loose[:0]!!!
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Monday, January 24, 2005 12:33 PM
But before that can happen...

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Posted by bnsfkline on Sunday, January 23, 2005 12:41 PM
holding a sign that said "The End" as this thread is nearly dead!
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Sunday, January 23, 2005 10:33 AM
As he stormed in, someone suddenly began humming the Mission Impossible theme song! Oh well, he though, I got some background music now. Anyway, as he sneaked in, he saw the first weasel. It was standing in the door to the kitchen, and it was........
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Posted by espeefoamer on Saturday, January 22, 2005 2:20 PM
Fortunately,it was stopped at a red block.He caught up with the train,grabbed his trusty weasel gun, and entered the rear car...
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:23 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by wcfan4ever

look for other rail lines around the country to start doing this too just like RailAmerica or Pioneer Railcorp would do. He found a 7 mile line in the state of Wisconsin. The line ran from Manitowoc to Two Rivers. He purchased the line from CN for $100 cause they had no use for the line. He called the this tourist railroad...


Side-Note: The switch leading to the line was taken out yesterday! I jinxed the line!!!!!!!![:0][:0][:0]

Sorry for the off-story post.

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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:30 AM
Now on board the front car of the train, tried to get back to the sleeper. He made his way throught the cars, but when he got to the sleeper, it had a locked door. Scaggy had no choice. He had to get in the car. He snuck out a window, and preceded old west style, climbing over the roof of the car. He found the other end, and got on the porch. As he dropped down, he imediately slid to one side of the door. As he went past, he caught a glimps of one weasel, obvious a cook, working on a meal. Scaggy new he had to just get inside and listen, not take any other action yet. But, he decided this wasn't the way to do it. He snuck off at the next stop, and got a company truck back to his head quarters. There he picked up his trusty ALCo, the one he had started with in the beginning, and began pushing the ALCo as fast as he could to catch up with the train. He got to where he could see the train, about a mile away.......
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:26 PM
and then rescue the captive BNSF fan from the dreaded UP weasels. Then Scaggy ....
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 7:03 PM
beat the train to the next passenger stop so he could purchase a ticket and climb on board.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:03 PM
THIS IS STUPID
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:56 PM
and sold it back to smaller Corperations that would start agian with the same structure as the roads UP bought out. But, there was one problem.......

Scaggy was preparing to start finding sources to give the money too, he was suprised by a visitor, or actually visitors, who could be none other than.......

THE WEASELS!!!!!!!!!!



(for those of you just joining us recently, the weasels were mad, UP Big Boy engine driving maniacs, who cause alsorts of problems for about ten pages somewhere around page 40 or so in this thread. They were eventually sent off somewhere, i think to jail, but apparently are out. Now back to our current story)

Scaggy had thought that he had heard a steam engine chugg, but thought nothing of it, as his office was in the middle of the junction of three major railroads. He looked out his window for the first time, now a ltitle two late, and noticed the Big Boys tied up on the engine track.

Scaggy turned back and muttered, "What do you want?"

"Wantssss?" Replied one of the weasels. "Why, we wantsss the UP back."

"Never!" Shouted Scaggy imediately, "If if I would, I wouldn't give it abck to a bunch of weasels."

Another Weasel piped up and said "Well, Finesssss then, Butsss No, you have been warned.........Hisssssssssss"

And with that the group of Four, fireman, Brakeman, Engineer and Conductor I assume, by the way the were dressed, turned back and headed out the door. A few moments later Scaggy, saw them walk to the Engine, build up steam, and the took off. He looked up and one of them had made his way to the dispatch tower, and was preceding to give themselves clear track for wherever they were going. As he climbed down, the end of the train passed, and he hopped in the caboose. The whole consist was UP, consisting of two Big Boys, a few passenger cars, a dining car, and a sleeper, no doubt the Boss weasels quarters. As the sleeper rolled by about 50 yard from the window, he saw the shade move in one window, but he could not see who was inside.

Scaggy's first move was to......
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:52 PM
...he kidnapped the president and CEO of the UP, and with the ransom money he bought the UP out....
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:08 PM
He bought two former CNW GP9's as well and restored them to thier original colors. After starting up the tourist line...

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Posted by espeefoamer on Monday, January 10, 2005 7:46 PM
The Two Rivers Railine. He also bought some heavyweight coaches,and painted the equipment in a green and yellow scheme based on the C&NW.
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