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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Sunday, August 15, 2004 5:17 PM
and we were
looking at those
cute,furry,ferrets,
when the spy
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Posted by espeefoamer on Friday, August 13, 2004 3:19 PM
knowing anything about
train schedules,blaming
everything on the
cute,furry,ferrets
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Posted by rich747us on Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:53 PM
but he denied
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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:36 PM
us the train
linup for the
whole entire weekend
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:42 AM
sneaky ferret-spies
slinking around the
railfanning spot, and
a few of
us began to
get suspicious. So
we attacked one
of the slinking
ferrets, and forced
him to tell
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:51 PM
because those NJT
guys are the
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:47 PM
there were ferret
spies from NJT
trying to erase
all railfans from
the face of
the entire earth





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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:40 PM
long even if
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:24 PM
easily accessable to
photographers to take
pictures of the
local all day
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:21 AM
running after the
train that had
began to come
around the bend.
It was a
WSOR mixed freight,
and it was
heading for points
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Posted by espeefoamer on Monday, August 9, 2004 1:49 PM
Came a bunch
of rabid ferret foamers[:0]
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Monday, August 9, 2004 12:08 PM
We began running
after them, screamming
and shouting "You
dirty little ferret!
Come back here!"

We began to
gain on them,
when all of
a sudden, there
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 8, 2004 10:57 PM
were looking at

wild ferrets cross

the tracks, the

evil ferrets -amazingly-

stole our cameras!!!
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Posted by guilfordrr on Sunday, August 8, 2004 10:43 PM
Well, we'd like

to think that.........

Anyway, as we
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Posted by guilfordrr on Sunday, August 8, 2004 10:42 PM
On the way,

we read that

the N&W's 611

was being brought

back into service (joyful screaming[:D])
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Posted by espeefoamer on Sunday, August 8, 2004 5:52 PM
OUR FILM!!! [:0]But
then we realized
that we all
had digital cameras [:D] !

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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Sunday, August 8, 2004 5:17 PM
As we got
out on the
road, we realized
that we forgot
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Posted by espeefoamer on Sunday, August 8, 2004 4:47 PM
the Mississippi River
where Frisco 1522
will pull an
excursion next week[:)]
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Sunday, August 8, 2004 4:19 PM
across all the
trackage from the
east coast to
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Posted by espeefoamer on Saturday, August 7, 2004 2:02 PM
and slices of
bacon along with
chilled orange juice
for us fans
for a day
of hardcore railfanning
and much foaming
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Posted by Trainnut484 on Saturday, August 7, 2004 12:43 PM
we stacked pancakes
All the Way!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 6, 2004 11:10 PM
At the IHOP
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Posted by rich747us on Friday, August 6, 2004 11:02 PM
from an IHOP!
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Posted by rich747us on Friday, August 6, 2004 11:00 PM
across the street
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Posted by rich747us on Friday, August 6, 2004 10:59 PM
in a park
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Posted by rich747us on Friday, August 6, 2004 10:58 PM
west of the station
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, August 3, 2004 2:18 PM
The inaugural train
left Chicago at 1
0:30 in the
morning, and for
plublicity, the Big
Boys were in
the lead. This
gave us railfans
good photo opportunities,
and we jumped
at the Chance.
Most people gathered
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, August 3, 2004 1:57 PM
Aug 1 with
many railfans and
passenger train advocates
attending the ceramonies
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, August 3, 2004 1:53 PM
on the old
400 Line from
chicago to Minneapolis.
They were to
replace Amtrack on
this line, A
much welcomed sight
for many! The
service began on
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Posted by espeefoamer on Monday, August 2, 2004 2:56 PM
passenger cars to
a new railroad
which was organized
to start service
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