Trains version of Never Ending Story

[Anonymous]

that the water was not fit for drinking because

[Noah Hofrichter]

It hadn't been changed in a few years at least. Scaggy figured that it ahd fermented or something. Well, now he was wondering what was really going on, and he wondered if this wasn't the dream. He tried pinching himself.....

Noah

[espeefoamer]

...and found out he WASN'T dreaming[:(!]!

[Anonymous]

now that Scaggy was so rudely brought back to reality, he decided to....

[Anonymous]

go and buy a new

[Noah Hofrichter]

Alco, from the scrapper prepareing to scap a old Green Bay and Western alco unit. It's paint was realitively untouched, and Scaggy bought it. He didcided to have it delived to...

[mustanggt]

a rail museum

[Anonymous]

so every person born after Alco went out of business could learn what made Alco diesels so special

[espeefoamer]

So someone with the big bucks could scour deadlines and scrapyards, buy the ALCos,and put them back into operation[:D].

[cpbloom]

someone a little on the eccentric side [:p]

[wcfan4ever]

likes ALCO's a lot, but there is nothing wrong with that cause I would personally love to see an ALCO in operation. So one day while coming down the main line, he spots a scrapyard located in

[Anonymous]

the middle of

[Noah Hofrichter]

nowhere really, but the closest city was Alquin Gorge,(never heard of it have you? Well, neither have I.) Texas. It just happended to be that he was cutting up a set of twelve alco C424's that day, and scaggy bought them all. Two of them couldn't move, so he leased some flat cars to put them on as well. Well, scaggy was no headed for Batton Rouge Louisiana way, and as he went.......

[espeefoamer]

he was sucking on a bright red licorice stick[;)].

[wcfan4ever]

that the scrapper gave him. Almost to Batton Rouge, he spots

[espeefoamer]

an ALCo DL109 in another scrapyard. Thinking these were extinct, he immediatly...

[Noah Hofrichter]

went over to inspect it. Sure enough, it was a DL109, although missing it's trucks. Scaggy quickly snapped it up, and he had it put on another flat car, and added to his train. As he pulled away, he began to wonder what he was going to with all those ALCo's that neeed some serious restoration. He got thinking, and decided he better take them someplace north, not to Baton Rogue as he had planned, and see if he could get to gether a group of volunteers to help repair them. He began his jorney north, and he got to thinking. He decided that, when all the ALCos he could get his hand's on in a short time were restored, he would......

[espeefoamer]

contact Doyle McCormic for tech advice on aquiring trucks for the DL109 and in restoring his ALCo collection.

[Noah Hofrichter]

He thought that then maybe he should open an ALCo museum, so all could see these great locomotives. Well, several mohs passed, and the DL10 got trucks, and the engines were all restored, and it was time for scaggy to pick a site to house his museum. He began look around all over the US for a place that was perfect. FInally he came to......

[Anonymous]

his senses and decided to take the restored Alcos on tour throughout the US and Canada to show people who are too young to remember Alco in its heyday what made Alco locomotives so special

[espeefoamer]

Causing massive crowds everywhere the special train went,in some places exess foaming caused foam floods running down city streets.

[Noah Hofrichter]

The foam would stick around for a few days too, so people would firmly have in there memory the memory of "those ALCos that caused the foam flood of 2004." Scaggy started in his home state of maine, and worked his way west (where else could he go), until one day when he arrived in......

[Anonymous]

Seattle washington, where

[espeefoamer]

the crew gathered at Starbuck's to drink lattes and plan the next leg of their trip,and setting the next stop at

[Anonymous]

Portland Oregon, where

[Anonymous]

where there were many old retirees of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle who were so excited when the Alcos of their youth replaced the EMD and GE commoners for a day. Then the crew headed

[wcfan4ever]

for Kansas City, MO and stopped at Santa Fe Junction which had allowed foamers to gather at this normally off limits spot. After staying overnight there it headed to

[Noah Hofrichter]

Chicago, spending a full two days there at different location around the greater chicago area. They decided to stay at teh BCR clearing yard for the night, where they would.....

[wcfan4ever]

refuel the lead loco and have a photo opp. for any fan wanting thier picture taken with the ALCO's! The one person never thought to show up was good ole' Mr...

[espeefoamer]

McIntosh designer of the original ALCo engine.