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  I am a newbie on this forum. I am a retired railroad man, I was a carman/car inspector in the trainyard for the UP in Ft.Worth, Tx. I miss the trainyard, I worked straight midnights & there was always something interesting going on!! In 1974, while laid off from the AT&SF, I was fortunate enough to have helped refurbish the old TP 610 engine! It was a major undertaking too, but an interesting one! I still, to this very day have a piece of hammer steel in my right hand from trying to knock out a pin in the coupling that connects the tender to the loco itself! I was honored to have been able to put a 1976 nickle on the tracks in Cleburne, Texas when the "Freedom Train"  Came through & made her stop at the old Santa Fe depot in Cleburne in 1976, I carry it in my left front pocket daily as a token of remembrance of a time in my life when I was young, happy & healthy! My, but that old steamer was pretty & shiny, it looked great hooking it down the tracks, looked like a housefire on wheels, the way she would lay down that smoke screen!! She was a looker for sure!
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