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Posted by trainboyH16-44 on Saturday, December 20, 2008 11:59 PM

 Answer to the last post:

I don't think a yard office would care about a railfan freezing to death in a snowbank while waiting for the next westbound.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 20, 2008 10:50 PM

Hmmm... why don't you try calling the nearest CP yard office, or division point office? 

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Posted by coborn35 on Saturday, December 20, 2008 8:26 PM

 He did say COULD.

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Posted by eolafan on Saturday, December 20, 2008 1:48 PM

Many of us over the age of approximately 50 will remember the old children's story about the little boy who cried "Wolf" and cried it so many times that everybody stopped listening to him and then the REAL wolf ate him but nobody came to his rescue as they thought his latest cry for help was another bunch of B.S. - well, this sounds like just such a scenario to me.

EXTREME URGENCY...LIFE OR DEATH...OH, NEVER MIND, IT'S NOT THAT BAD AFTER ALL!

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Posted by blhanel on Saturday, December 20, 2008 1:35 PM

If "greatest urgency" and "a matter of life and death" don't warrant calling CPR's emergency number, then I don't know what does.

Next time, choose your words more wisely.

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Posted by trainboyH16-44 on Saturday, December 20, 2008 1:20 PM

blhanel

The emergency telephone # on CPR's website is listed as 1-800-716-9132 .  Call that.

 

Not quite that much urgency =)

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Posted by blhanel on Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:41 PM

The emergency telephone # on CPR's website is listed as 1-800-716-9132 .  Call that.

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Posted by blhanel on Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:24 PM

I tried calling Los Angeles Rams Guy, who is a CP employee in Minneapolis.  We met up last year and I still have his phone numbers from then.  No luck in reaching him, though.

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A matter of the greatest urgency
Posted by trainboyH16-44 on Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:07 PM

 I won't go into details, but I desperately need contact information for anyone who is an employee of CP. This could be a matter of life or death in this weather!

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