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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:01 PM
lost his mind
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:04 PM
the midnight ride
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:08 PM
they washed daily
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:10 PM
dillon left dodge
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:15 PM
know your trains
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 7:09 AM
are coming by not sticking your ear onto the rail, especially on a hot summer's day, which would
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 1:49 PM
(Please, try to keep this on topic as much as possible, we don't want nonsense posts. Post as much as want in line with the story, were always glad to have more people)

(goign back to sommerkamp's third post, "trains never end, they get longer and longer")
untill the only
thing that can
haul them is
the Big Boys!!!!
Who by this
time were headed
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 5:08 PM
For Tehachapi and
the famous Loop[:)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 6:13 PM
hhmmmmmmmmmm...that sure took the fun out of this
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Posted by locomutt on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 8:18 PM
End this farce?

Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 6:36 AM
Bulletin Order read: keep it rolling and there shall be some humor.

But, I do like the sight of the setting sun's glow on the rails, which makes them look like two glowing parallel wires stretching far into the horizon while wondering who rode these rails long ago, what did they see, and, where did they go, what was life like back then, remembering our railroad forefathers who......
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 1:40 PM
would go and
build, build, build,
and build track,
untill one day,
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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, August 19, 2004 2:42 PM
NIMBYs showed up
and totally freaked
and threw tantrums
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Posted by Sterling1 on Thursday, August 19, 2004 5:03 PM
While waiting for Chessie's 614 to roll into North Chili and listening to Third Day's Give . . .
"There is nothing in life that compares with running a locomotive at 80-plus mph with the windows open, the traction motors screaming, the air horns fighting the rush of incoming air to make any sound at all, automobiles on adjacent highways trying and failing to catch up with you, and the unmistakable presence of raw power. You ride with fear in the pit of your stomach knowing you do not really have control of this beast." - D.C. Battle [Trains 10/2002 issue, p74.]
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Posted by Sterling1 on Thursday, August 19, 2004 5:11 PM
The Cat and the Thoroughbred live on all while watching N&W 611 and C&O 614 roll by . . . [:D][:0]
"There is nothing in life that compares with running a locomotive at 80-plus mph with the windows open, the traction motors screaming, the air horns fighting the rush of incoming air to make any sound at all, automobiles on adjacent highways trying and failing to catch up with you, and the unmistakable presence of raw power. You ride with fear in the pit of your stomach knowing you do not really have control of this beast." - D.C. Battle [Trains 10/2002 issue, p74.]
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Posted by espeefoamer on Friday, August 20, 2004 5:25 PM
As the train
appears in the
distance led by
the Big Boys
each with a
furry ferret engineer
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 21, 2004 8:51 AM
keeping a sharp eye out for the Bond Wire Gang
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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 Anonymous on Monday, August 23, 2004 8:53 PM
The jokers like
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Posted by cpbloom on Monday, August 23, 2004 11:33 PM
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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 espeefoamer on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 2:10 PM
send UP into
total meltdown situation
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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 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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