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Posted by espeefoamer on Friday, December 10, 2004 2:26 PM
the 'vette cleared the crossing and was immediately pulled over by a patrol car waiting on the other side!
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Thursday, December 9, 2004 4:57 PM
Scaggy imediately applied the brakes, hopeing that the car would see the train and stop in time. Just then the flashing lights came on and........
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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, December 9, 2004 4:29 PM
watched in horror as a late model Corvette raced him towards the crossing...
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Posted by CSXrules4eva on Thursday, December 9, 2004 4:25 PM
a grade Xing . . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . at wide open throttle he ...
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Thursday, December 9, 2004 4:05 PM
Well, he now had three locomotives, and he continued on his journey, the belching ALCo in the lead. As he continued now South from Chicago, he reached
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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, December 9, 2004 12:50 PM
Buy 2 SD45s. One for his proposed dinner train,
and the other for increased business on his railroad.The single ALCo couldn't handle the load alone anymore.
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Thursday, December 9, 2004 12:39 PM
at CN/IC's Woodcrest Shops. While there he noticed the line of Wisconsin Central locomotives in the deadlines and decided to...

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 9, 2004 8:56 AM
he had a few extra cases of allstar available and gave the hobo and his scraggly mutt a six pack and invited them to share a sandwich while refueling...
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 9, 2004 8:06 AM
continued onto elkhart and making his way to the cobweb properly known as chicago. he was in route when a hobo stopped him for a drink of water...
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Posted by espeefoamer on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 10:13 PM
the fast container/Amtrak train stalled on the 3.5% grade. So Scaggy...dropped his freight cars, coupled his ALCo to the hotshot and gave a hard shove This was just enough to get the hot train moving.He shoved to the top of the grade, cut off at the summit, and then...
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 4:10 PM
(This one should be above the other, I posted it, and then wanted to change it so I deleted it, sorry about that)
He worked his way through the Northwest in his ALCo, just asking for clear signals and slots under the name of "wanderer" and he called himself local 421 most places. He made his way slowly, and was tootleing through Ohio, when he suddenly began to see something coming on the second track that didn't look like a normal train......
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 4:03 PM
it looked like a fast freight container train with amtrak coaches on the end, so then...
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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 8:34 PM
Randy-with-the-sheilas-he-understands-but-that-may-not-be-many.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 5:20 PM
Scaggywaggyshemascootenendacrat, which when translated into english roughly means
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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 5:18 PM
in Maine, a young man fired up his elderly Alco switcher and decided to head for the West, come what may, to right wrongs and set the world straight. His name was
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 4:11 PM
Well, for the next few weeks, everything seemed normal on KCS. The only thing different was that the name of the CEO on all the paper work was changed. But suddenly, one early fall day....
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 4:05 PM
was last seen heading north over the 49th parellell.
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 12:28 PM
proffitable than other railroads at the time. So without thinking any harder he picked up KCS and

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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Saturday, December 4, 2004 5:59 PM
his type of railroad. Well, after thinking for a while, he formed a game plan. He would first....
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 3, 2004 6:33 PM
KCS, they seemed to be more
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Friday, December 3, 2004 6:29 PM
Know if that would work. He also had his eye on
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 3, 2004 6:26 PM
get his hands on some eastern roads, he had his eye on NS, but he didn't
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Friday, December 3, 2004 6:03 PM
the Union Pacific. He began forming the idea that maybe, just maybe, he could make another railroad bigger than Union Pacific! Of course it would take time but it would go faster if he just could.....
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Friday, December 3, 2004 4:08 PM
looking into what it would take to create another railroad with the potential of the Wisconsin Central and the strength of...

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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Thursday, December 2, 2004 3:43 PM
Well, Ed, now outraged, began to
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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, December 2, 2004 3:09 PM
entire railroad and merged it into Harrison's CN.
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Thursday, December 2, 2004 12:10 PM
that not only did Hunter take his train, he took his

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 1, 2004 8:01 PM
it was later discovered
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Wednesday, December 1, 2004 7:58 PM
his private train, which was parked at the depot across the street. Now of course this told Ed that it had to be someone who was either a or formerly a engineer, or they wouldn't have known how to run the thing. That or someone who's played Microsoft Train Simulator one too many times...........
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 1, 2004 7:46 PM
Harrison also took

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