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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:06 PM
dilappidated old twenty
foot long flatcars
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Posted by espeefoamer on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:22 PM
as they raced along
towards North Platte
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:30 PM
They picked up
more speed, untill
they began to
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Posted by guilfordrr on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 4:22 PM
leave the rails
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 6:07 PM
and then rerailers
rose up inside
every track and
every Big Boy
returned to the
many, many rails
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 1, 2004 12:20 AM
but then there
was a sudden
bang! And everyone
had to stop
because the biggest
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Posted by guilfordrr on Thursday, July 1, 2004 9:12 AM
obsticle was yet

to come! They

had run over

a warning flare
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 1, 2004 10:30 AM
But alas, it
was just a
herd of... buffalo!!!!!!!!
So they all
deployed their cowcatchers
and the buffalo
were pushed out
of the way
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 1, 2004 11:54 AM
clearing the tracks
which made the
trains run all
that much faster
so they could
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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, July 1, 2004 1:06 PM
serve buffalo burgers
in the diner
at lunch and
buffalo T bone
steaks at dinner.[dinner]
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Thursday, July 1, 2004 1:35 PM
MMM Bufflo Burgers.
As the Big
Boys continued along,
They ran into
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Posted by guilfordrr on Thursday, July 1, 2004 1:56 PM
Ohio, where an

enormous crowd gathered

trackside to watch
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 1, 2004 4:28 PM
the Big Boys.
But then, UP
came in and
wanted to screw
everything up. NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UP strikes again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, July 1, 2004 6:09 PM
The crowd stormed
the concession car
and spent so
muct money,the
UP had to
let the train
keep on going[:)]
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Posted by guilfordrr on Thursday, July 1, 2004 6:59 PM
but before leaving
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 2, 2004 5:20 PM
UP came up
with an idea.
It sent in
a fleet of
Centinnials, thinking the
massive beasts might
stop them. But.......
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Saturday, July 3, 2004 3:57 PM
they ended up
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Posted by guilfordrr on Thursday, July 8, 2004 5:36 PM
being crushed into
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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, July 8, 2004 5:44 PM
SD70Ms which are
very common on
the modern UP
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 8, 2004 6:10 PM
and the cows
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Thursday, July 8, 2004 8:13 PM
began running amuck
all over the
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Posted by UPTRAIN on Thursday, July 8, 2004 10:03 PM
yard in the
big town of

Pump

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 9, 2004 12:57 AM
Jennikens which is
located in the
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Posted by guilfordrr on Friday, July 9, 2004 9:35 AM
middle of nowhere.

Anyway, the UP

was devistated by

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 9, 2004 12:47 PM
the little train
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Posted by espeefoamer on Friday, July 9, 2004 2:11 PM
that brought the
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 9, 2004 2:18 PM
toys for all
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Friday, July 9, 2004 6:38 PM
the good railfans
and children all
over the country
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 9, 2004 8:08 PM
but no toys
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Posted by guilfordrr on Friday, July 9, 2004 9:20 PM
were packaged with

their advertising. Therefore,

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