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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 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 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 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 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 Anonymous on Sunday, August 29, 2004 4:35 PM
made sure that
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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 pat390 on Sunday, August 29, 2004 6:27 PM
which everyone hates but them
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 29, 2004 10:06 PM
except for the
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:18 PM
jumped the tracks and rolled many times until it landed on a a set of tracks along UP's that belonged to

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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:19 PM
Canadian Pacific which
was operating its
2816 on a
transcontinental trip for
executives and friends
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Posted by Trainnut484 on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:40 PM
The crew on
the 2816 nearly
soiled their pants
and brought the
train to a
stop causing all
of the passengers
All the Way!
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:29 PM
to get off of the train and walk over to CN's track so they could hop onto a VIA and take it to

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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 12:31 PM
Quebec, where they
planned on going
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 1:30 PM
salmon fishing, ehh
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 2:39 PM
but one thier way to Quebec they got side-tracked and ended up back on CP and were really headed to

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Posted by espeefoamer on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 2:43 PM
Calgary where they
would see the
famous Calgary Stampede
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 3:40 PM
as well as
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Thursday, September 2, 2004 7:01 AM
the calgary flames but they soon realized that both of those teams left because CN

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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, September 2, 2004 2:26 PM
had done to
Canada what UP
did to the
USA but without
the massive meltdown
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Thursday, September 2, 2004 3:34 PM
So they decided
to go to
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Friday, September 3, 2004 10:39 AM
Chicago and go sight-seeing after hopping an Amtrak train at

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