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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by ironken</i> <br /><br />It fries the points and condensor in the distributor. It also burns up the plug wires. It also makes the engineer and conductor mess their trousers. <br />Ken <br />[/quote] <br /> <br /><font face="Verdana"></font id="Verdana">Hey Kenny, Sounds like you are speaking from experience [:D][:D][:D][:D]. <br /> <br />I've got you all beat...Back in the summer of 1998, I was working on the north end of Acca Yard in Richmond VA, when we had a tornado warning, and the tornado came right down the center of the yard, past AY, and tore up the signals at the end of the wye on the south side of the yard. I remember racing for the rear box car, getting up and telling my hogger to high ball it through the yard. I'll never forget that wall of water that raced us. It almost caught up to me as we managed to keep the rear of our cut ahead of it by only a few car lengths. It was travelling fast! Talk about a wind storm...eeech....[:p] We made it from the North End to the South End in record speed. I've never seen cars rock back and forth as they did, but we made it down there just in time to get cover. <br /> <br />Who cares about a little cattle prodding, when the real stuff will simply blow you away! [;)] <br /> <br />MUD...
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