QUOTE: On the other hand, if the loco was a superannuated, undermaintained traveling steam leak, serviced with bad oil and hard water, overloaded and slippery, on an overcast-night run in the Mojave desert in August, no way, Jose!
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"The first transition era - wood to steel!"
Ray Breyer
Modeling the NKP's Peoria Division, circa 1943
QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSFrailfan NO!
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
Marlon
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QUOTE: I am still mad at Goode about shutting it all down instead of scaling it back or putting it on hold a while.
QUOTE: Originally posted by rripperger QUOTE: I am still mad at Goode about shutting it all down instead of scaling it back or putting it on hold a while. And of course they waited until Graham Claytor died to do it.
QUOTE: Even worse, in the year before, strides were being made to upgrade and improve on it. Then came the derailment in Lynchburg and that, IMHO, started the downward spiral.