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Flagg Coal #75 weekend trips

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Flagg Coal #75 weekend trips
Posted by J. Edgar on Saturday, June 2, 2007 4:51 PM

 up in Owosso MI where the PM 1225 calls home......there is weekend trips behind steam.....i showed up late and it started raining when i did get there so the shots are murky....but the smell of coal smoke and the sounds of steam......

if it can be read the builders plate says....Vulcan Iron Works 1930 Wilkes-Barre Penna.

 former Ann Arbor caboose class 1951....restored 2004 by volunteers of the Steam Railoading Institute of Owosso MI....used for the shoving move leaving town

 former Ann Arbor caboose

 thats the train on the "station" spur.....clouds just stopped with the rain

 

i love the smell of coal smoke in the morning Photobucket
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Posted by J. Edgar on Saturday, June 2, 2007 4:54 PM

 more pictues......

 thats Mr. Byron Gramlin checking the new axle bearings.....says their a tad hot

 thats the shot missing fom earlier....

i love the smell of coal smoke in the morning Photobucket

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