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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:42 PM
Wisconsin. Then suddenly,
the caboose came
flying down the
track, as if
driving itself. It
slowly caught up
to the Stack
train, untill it
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Monday, August 30, 2004 9:32 PM
if it hadn't been given to that railroad museum back in

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 30, 2004 8:44 PM
as it faded away down the dark track with F.R.E.D. blinking where a caboose should still be
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Posted by espeefoamer on Monday, August 30, 2004 5:09 PM
long stack train
that was wandering
over the whole
UP system because
no yard anywhere
could handle it
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Monday, August 30, 2004 2:28 PM
run back to
there homes, whoarding
the chips and
soda all the
way. Just when
we thought the
excitement had been
enought and we
should call an
end to our
railfan siteing, we
saw a faint
figure on the
horizion, and realized
it was a
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Monday, August 30, 2004 12:24 AM
so once the ferret's got thier share of chips and soda they began to

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Posted by rich747us on Sunday, August 29, 2004 10:08 PM
likes drinking MT. DEW![:D]
When there's a tie at the crossing.....YOU LOOSE! STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, AND LIVE! GOD BLESS CONRAIL!</font id="blue"> 1976-1999 (R.I.P.)
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Posted by rich747us on Sunday, August 29, 2004 10:06 PM
Because everyone else
When there's a tie at the crossing.....YOU LOOSE! STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, AND LIVE! GOD BLESS CONRAIL!</font id="blue"> 1976-1999 (R.I.P.)
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 29, 2004 10:06 PM
except for the
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Posted by pat390 on Sunday, August 29, 2004 6:27 PM
which everyone hates but them
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Posted by espeefoamer on Sunday, August 29, 2004 4:45 PM
they all got
their share of
rigid chips and
lime flavored soda[:p]
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 29, 2004 4:35 PM
made sure that
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Sunday, August 29, 2004 12:11 PM
they had begun
a tactic against
BNSF where they
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Sunday, August 29, 2004 9:35 AM
knew that it was just a matter of time before BNSF would give them what they wanted because

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Posted by railman on Saturday, August 28, 2004 8:50 PM
it was on
the rival road
BNSF, but they
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Saturday, August 28, 2004 6:38 PM
rigid potato chips with some lime flavored soda to wash it down but the only problem with getting that stuff was



(Funny you should mention Ferret's...that is my nickname and has been for quite some time...im glad I decieded to check out the thread for the first time and see that our kind took over UP!!)

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Posted by espeefoamer on Saturday, August 28, 2004 5:46 PM
taken over the
trains and have
insisted that they
won't move until
they receive their
favorite food which
is known as
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Friday, August 27, 2004 4:43 PM
try to re-take
the trains, but
instead, as you
know, the ferrets
took over instead
of letting Management
back in. Now
the ferrets have
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Posted by espeefoamer on Friday, August 27, 2004 2:43 PM
They had to
recruit ferret railfans
from local hobby
shops to run
their trains into
the nearest yards
so they could
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 2:10 PM
send UP into
total meltdown situation
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:51 PM
like us!! And
also the porcupines
that had gotten
in the UP
management before the
Ferrets. Those porcupines
had begun to
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Posted by cpbloom on Monday, August 23, 2004 11:33 PM
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 23, 2004 8:53 PM
The jokers like
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Posted by espeefoamer on Monday, August 23, 2004 7:33 PM
Maybe so,but
I suspect that
the ferrets can
do a better
job than the
jokers they replaced[:)]!
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Monday, August 23, 2004 2:01 PM
wait, wasn't that
what happened years
ago....... is this
just the new
generation of taker-placers?
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Posted by espeefoamer on Monday, August 23, 2004 1:44 PM
have mutinied and
overthrown the UP
management and taken
over all of the
top executive positions
from president and
CEO to the
board of directors
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Monday, August 23, 2004 1:37 PM
So as the
Big Boys and
the furry ferret
engineers came around
the bend, we
suddenly realized that,
"Ferrets shouldn't be
driving that train!!!!"
So we leaped
into action, and
realizing we had
no idea what
to do,sat
back down again.
Then one of
us said "we
should call UP
and warn them
that there are
Ferrets driving their
train." We burst
out laughing as
the though sunk
in, that ferrets
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Posted by espeefoamer on Sunday, August 22, 2004 4:38 PM
of diesel locomotive
that has run
on a class
1 railroad and
most of the
mainline steam locomotives[:)]
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Sunday, August 22, 2004 3:43 PM
all over the
United States, from
Horeshoe curve, to
Donner pass. They
have seen just
about ever type
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Posted by espeefoamer on Saturday, August 21, 2004 6:23 PM
who have been
seen shoooting photos
of passing trains
for the past
30 odd years
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