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News Wire: Western Maryland Scenic offers 1309 behind-the-scenes event

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Monday, October 15, 2018 11:07 AM

CUMBERLAND, Md. — Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, fresh on the heels of test firing the boiler of Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 on Oct. 3, is offering a chance to visit the shop and see the live boiler. The railroad and contract...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/10/15-western-maryland-scenic-offers-1309-behind-the-scenes-event

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Posted by ROBERT WILLISON on Monday, October 15, 2018 11:19 AM

Kinda of old news?

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Posted by Overmod on Monday, October 15, 2018 11:58 AM

ROBERT WILLISON
Kinda of old news?

It's datelined the 15th.  Today is the 15th.  Not sure what Internet definition of 'old news' could possibly qualify here...

The first steaming is old news here.  But this Newswire piece is not about that, it only mentions it as a lead-in to the open house... which will not even BE news until the 30th.

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Posted by ROBERT WILLISON on Thursday, October 18, 2018 4:12 PM

Oops , but thanks for taking the time to point out my error.

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