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<P>From the New York Times:</P> <P>"Celebrate not the Midnight Special or the Wabash Cannonball, but trusty old No. 25, the floating locomotive. Yesterday it embarked on the most colorful chapter of its saga: a barge ride from Brooklyn across New York Harbor to its destiny as the centerpiece of Manhattan’s newest public park.</P> <P>"No. 25 is neither Thomas the Tank Engine nor the Little Engine That Could, but a proletarian switching engine that finished its life of toil on the Brooklyn waterfront. It is destined now to spend the rest of its days “as a magnet for children, as only a locomotive can be,” said Adrian Benepe, the city’s parks commissioner. </P> <P>"The 95-ton, 60-year-old engine was barged yesterday from the New York Cross Harbor Railroad in Brooklyn to Jersey City, where it was loaded on another barge equipped with a crane. Tonight, it will float across the Hudson to a slip on West 45th Street. In the early hours tomorrow, it will be lifted onto a flatbed truck, transported and then carefully deposited to the east of the West Side Highway on 62nd Street — about 50 yards from the river." </P> <P><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/nyregion/11engine.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/nyregion/11engine.html</A>?</P> <P>Dave<BR></P>
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