Trains version of Never Ending Story

[Noah Hofrichter]

Florida, but when
they heard Jeannie
was comming, they
headed for the
west coast. On
there way they
passed through
several towns, including

[Anonymous]

Lusk Wyoming , On

[guilfordrr]

board the single

caboose, things were

not well. A

coal stove tipped

over, soon engulfing

the car in

flames. The Volenteer

Fire Department of

Eden Prarie, Minnesota,

arrived instantly, and........

[Junctionfan]

......Began setting up the equipment to fight the fire. As they attached the hoses to the fire truck, they............

[Anonymous]

spilled their coffee

[Noah Hofrichter]

and began running
around yelling and
sceaming. After that
situatuion was under
control, the Big
Boys cut off
and pulled ahead
to a safe
distance. After the
caboose fire was
put out, the
Big boys continued
to North platte,
where they picked
up a new
caboose. After that
they continued to
California, but on
there way, they
encountered a large

[Junctionfan]

....amount of livestock fouling the tracks. The train had to stop and and the crew had to try to move their obstacle aside. Just then......

[espeefoamer]

the weasels showed
up and began
rounding up the
cattle so the

[Noah Hofrichter]

train could continue.
But the weasles
were wolves in
sheeps clothing. They
cleared the tracks.....
so they could
take the big
boys over again!
They shoved the
Fireman, brakeman, and
engineer off, and
started the engines
up and took
off. And this
was the last
anyone saw the
big boys for
quite sometime.
You see, the
weasles took the
big boys, and
amazingly without being
seen by any
railroad offical, snuck

[Overmod]

them to yard trackage adjacent to Slauson Avenue in the Los Angeles area, preparing to use them in a film about a young weasel who steals the train to keep people from tearing up ex-Illinois Central lines to make bike paths.

Unfortunately, as film crews were about to start, it was discovered that

[bnsfkline]

the weasels were
infact.....employees of
George Dubbya Bush!
Then, after the
scandel broke out
the good railfans.....

[Junctionfan]

Beat the heck out of them lead by Sherrif John Kerry and through them in the town jail. After the train was recovered...........

[wcfan4ever]

it headed back to where it started in

[espeefoamer]

Just in time
for dinner break

[Noah Hofrichter]

and a good
meal. Then the
Big Boys again
began there journey,
hopefully not for
the last time!
They headed out
west, over Donner
pass and to

[Overmod]

H -E - double toothpicks, as grizzled K.C. ("Kompletely Clear") Jonah, the engineer, liked to put it. Staring grimly out the right-side window, ten-penny nail clenched in his jaw, Jonah drove the mighty doubleheaded consist through the night, seemingly unaware that

[Noah Hofrichter]

he was supposed
to have stopped
about two hours
ago to pick
up the UP
big wigs! When
he realized it,

[Anonymous]

he chomped down a doughnut and said "da hell with them", I'm high balling it outta here to.....

[Noah Hofrichter]

Canada, cause they
can't touch me
there! So he
began, his trek
running from the
UP officals. On
his way to
Canada, he ran
past a few
red lights, usually
narrowly avoiding a
colision. Ss he
was nearing the
Canadian border he

[Overmod]

said to his fireman, TrainSim Webb, "The old boy's got his high-heeled slippers on tonight", and broke into a chorus of the Monty Python Lumberjack song.

Just as he got to the words 'skip and jump' a huge light burst in front of the train! It was

[Overmod]

they would have to proceed at restricted speed for the next 240,000-odd miles.

Then they realized, with still more horror, that in order to see the moon coming over the horizon in front of them on the way to the Canadian border, something had to be bad, bad wrong! In fact, the lunar aspect was NOT the moon! It was the RCMP's Leftenant Doright who with commendable zeal was

[wcfan4ever]

it was one of the Pennsy GG1's with one of those "Cool Blue" headlights. They continued the journey until they realized that

[Overmod]

the weasels had doubled back and, having smoked the better part of their sinsemilla, were laying for them just south of the border crossing.

"Quick," said Doright, "we'd better

[espeefoamer]

call Inspector Fenwick
to round up
Rocky and Bullwinkle
to corral the
sneaky fuzzy weasels

[Noah Hofrichter]

and figure out
how to get
rid of them
once and for
all" So began

[Overmod]

The Great WEAS-ELIMINATION!

Border to border, coast to coast, the race was on, the fix was in!
Weasels by the score...
Pop 'em, blast 'em, make 'em go...
More, and more, and more!

"Oh no" said Bucky Badger, "they'll mistake ME for a weasel..."

So he left Madison in a hurry amid the general carnage and

[Junctionfan]

got into an accident. This cause a major problem because

[Noah Hofrichter]

Several Wisconsinites were
on his trail
to drag him
back, which they
did. They hid
him in the
locker room of
Camp Randell. He
was thankfully safe
due to a small
problem, which was
fixed in a hurry
before....well that's
another story. As
the weasels were
rounded up and
stuck in camps
for release in
France later. The
big boy could
finally proceed. It

[Overmod]

did not, however, because...

WAIT, Hofrichter complained, banging abruptly on his keyboard and turning away from the screen. "I started this story with the intent it would go someplace, not keep getting sabotaged. What's happening to the..."

But already the screen was flashing, changing, as more posts flooded in to continue the story. In fact,

[espeefoamer]

in reviewing the
latest inspection reports
on the Big
Boys the ICC
discovered that Steve
Lee and the
entire steam crew
were actually weasels[:0]