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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Friday, December 17, 2004 4:02 PM
went over to inspect it. Sure enough, it was a DL109, although missing it's trucks. Scaggy quickly snapped it up, and he had it put on another flat car, and added to his train. As he pulled away, he began to wonder what he was going to with all those ALCo's that neeed some serious restoration. He got thinking, and decided he better take them someplace north, not to Baton Rogue as he had planned, and see if he could get to gether a group of volunteers to help repair them. He began his jorney north, and he got to thinking. He decided that, when all the ALCos he could get his hand's on in a short time were restored, he would......
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Posted by espeefoamer on Friday, December 17, 2004 1:56 PM
an ALCo DL109 in another scrapyard. Thinking these were extinct, he immediatly...
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Friday, December 17, 2004 12:25 PM
that the scrapper gave him. Almost to Batton Rouge, he spots

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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, December 16, 2004 5:17 PM
he was sucking on a bright red licorice stick[;)].
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Thursday, December 16, 2004 4:11 PM
nowhere really, but the closest city was Alquin Gorge,(never heard of it have you? Well, neither have I.) Texas. It just happended to be that he was cutting up a set of twelve alco C424's that day, and scaggy bought them all. Two of them couldn't move, so he leased some flat cars to put them on as well. Well, scaggy was no headed for Batton Rouge Louisiana way, and as he went.......
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:39 PM
the middle of
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:51 PM
likes ALCO's a lot, but there is nothing wrong with that cause I would personally love to see an ALCO in operation. So one day while coming down the main line, he spots a scrapyard located in

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Posted by cpbloom on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:10 PM
someone a little on the eccentric side [:p]
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Posted by espeefoamer on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:59 PM
So someone with the big bucks could scour deadlines and scrapyards, buy the ALCos,and put them back into operation[:D].
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:10 PM
so every person born after Alco went out of business could learn what made Alco diesels so special
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Posted by mustanggt on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 6:48 PM
a rail museum
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:27 PM
Alco, from the scrapper prepareing to scap a old Green Bay and Western alco unit. It's paint was realitively untouched, and Scaggy bought it. He didcided to have it delived to...
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 10:15 PM
go and buy a new
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:52 PM
now that Scaggy was so rudely brought back to reality, he decided to....
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 8:25 PM
...and found out he WASN'T dreaming[:(!]!
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 3:53 PM
It hadn't been changed in a few years at least. Scaggy figured that it ahd fermented or something. Well, now he was wondering what was really going on, and he wondered if this wasn't the dream. He tried pinching himself.....

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:54 PM
that the water was not fit for drinking because
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:25 PM
he said he didn't remember anything after drinking the water and the NS manager said

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Posted by cpbloom on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:02 AM
He really worked for Norfolk Southern and the NS manager was now on the train and wanting some answers [:(!]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2004 10:51 PM
suddenly awoken, it turned out
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2004 7:28 PM
had visions of being home with his family when he was...
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Posted by espeefoamer on Monday, December 13, 2004 7:24 PM
go fuzzy and spin around. He recalled that the water on the locomotive had tasted funny just before he...
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2004 4:48 PM
everything started to
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Monday, December 13, 2004 3:48 PM
Long lines of TFM boxcars too. He began to think that something fishy might be going on. At the next yard he dicided to pull up on the house track for the night, and he decided to go ask the Yard master about what he saw. As he approached the dispatcher's tower.....
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 12, 2004 8:34 PM
The trains also had
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Posted by espeefoamer on Sunday, December 12, 2004 4:05 PM
he was seeing more and more trains with solid TFM power.
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Sunday, December 12, 2004 1:47 PM
Well, Randy decided to continue on this way, and he kept on moving South, with his Alco leading As he bgan to approach KCS country, he began to notice that....
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Posted by mustanggt on Saturday, December 11, 2004 6:20 PM
Found that clevelandrocks had stolen it.....
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Saturday, December 11, 2004 3:38 PM
wrote him a ticket for being stupid, attempting to destroy a great car, trying to damage a Wisconsin Central locomotive, and

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 10, 2004 3:02 PM
The cop then got out of the patrol car and

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