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espeefoamer
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 4:05 PM
was last seen heading north over the 49th parellell.
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Noah Hofrichter
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 4:11 PM
Well, for the next few weeks, everything seemed normal on KCS. The only thing different was that the name of the CEO on all the paper work was changed. But suddenly, one early fall day....
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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 5:18 PM
in Maine, a young man fired up his elderly Alco switcher and decided to head for the West, come what may, to right wrongs and set the world straight. His name was
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 5:20 PM
Scaggywaggyshemascootenendacrat, which when translated into english roughly means
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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 8:34 PM
Randy-with-the-sheilas-he-understands-but-that-may-not-be-many.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 4:03 PM
it looked like a fast freight container train with amtrak coaches on the end, so then...
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 4:10 PM
(This one should be above the other, I posted it, and then wanted to change it so I deleted it, sorry about that)
He worked his way through the Northwest in his ALCo, just asking for clear signals and slots under the name of "wanderer" and he called himself local 421 most places. He made his way slowly, and was tootleing through Ohio, when he suddenly began to see something coming on the second track that didn't look like a normal train......
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Posted by espeefoamer on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 10:13 PM
the fast container/Amtrak train stalled on the 3.5% grade. So Scaggy...dropped his freight cars, coupled his ALCo to the hotshot and gave a hard shove This was just enough to get the hot train moving.He shoved to the top of the grade, cut off at the summit, and then...
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 9, 2004 8:06 AM
continued onto elkhart and making his way to the cobweb properly known as chicago. he was in route when a hobo stopped him for a drink of water...
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 9, 2004 8:56 AM
he had a few extra cases of allstar available and gave the hobo and his scraggly mutt a six pack and invited them to share a sandwich while refueling...
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Thursday, December 9, 2004 12:39 PM
at CN/IC's Woodcrest Shops. While there he noticed the line of Wisconsin Central locomotives in the deadlines and decided to...

Dave Howarth Jr. Livin' On Former CNW Spur From Manitowoc To Appleton In Reedsville, WI

- Formerly From The Home of Wisconsin Central's 5,000,000th Carload

- Manitowoc Cranes, Manitowoc Ice Machines, Burger Boat

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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, December 9, 2004 12:50 PM
Buy 2 SD45s. One for his proposed dinner train,
and the other for increased business on his railroad.The single ALCo couldn't handle the load alone anymore.
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Noah Hofrichter
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Thursday, December 9, 2004 4:05 PM
Well, he now had three locomotives, and he continued on his journey, the belching ALCo in the lead. As he continued now South from Chicago, he reached
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Posted by CSXrules4eva on Thursday, December 9, 2004 4:25 PM
a grade Xing . . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . at wide open throttle he ...
LORD HELP US ALL TO BE ORIGINAL AND NOT CRISPY!!! please? Sarah J.M. Warner conductor CSX
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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, December 9, 2004 4:29 PM
watched in horror as a late model Corvette raced him towards the crossing...
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Noah Hofrichter
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Thursday, December 9, 2004 4:57 PM
Scaggy imediately applied the brakes, hopeing that the car would see the train and stop in time. Just then the flashing lights came on and........
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Posted by espeefoamer on Friday, December 10, 2004 2:26 PM
the 'vette cleared the crossing and was immediately pulled over by a patrol car waiting on the other side!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 10, 2004 3:02 PM
The cop then got out of the patrol car and
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wcfan4ever
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Saturday, December 11, 2004 3:38 PM
wrote him a ticket for being stupid, attempting to destroy a great car, trying to damage a Wisconsin Central locomotive, and

Dave Howarth Jr. Livin' On Former CNW Spur From Manitowoc To Appleton In Reedsville, WI

- Formerly From The Home of Wisconsin Central's 5,000,000th Carload

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Posted by mustanggt on Saturday, December 11, 2004 6:20 PM
Found that clevelandrocks had stolen it.....
C280 rollin'
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Noah Hofrichter
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Sunday, December 12, 2004 1:47 PM
Well, Randy decided to continue on this way, and he kept on moving South, with his Alco leading As he bgan to approach KCS country, he began to notice that....
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Posted by espeefoamer on Sunday, December 12, 2004 4:05 PM
he was seeing more and more trains with solid TFM power.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 12, 2004 8:34 PM
The trains also had
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Noah Hofrichter
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Monday, December 13, 2004 3:48 PM
Long lines of TFM boxcars too. He began to think that something fishy might be going on. At the next yard he dicided to pull up on the house track for the night, and he decided to go ask the Yard master about what he saw. As he approached the dispatcher's tower.....
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2004 4:48 PM
everything started to
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espeefoamer
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Posted by espeefoamer on Monday, December 13, 2004 7:24 PM
go fuzzy and spin around. He recalled that the water on the locomotive had tasted funny just before he...
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2004 7:28 PM
had visions of being home with his family when he was...
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2004 10:51 PM
suddenly awoken, it turned out
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Posted by cpbloom on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:02 AM
He really worked for Norfolk Southern and the NS manager was now on the train and wanting some answers [:(!]
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Posted by wcfan4ever on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:25 PM
he said he didn't remember anything after drinking the water and the NS manager said

Dave Howarth Jr. Livin' On Former CNW Spur From Manitowoc To Appleton In Reedsville, WI

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