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Great pic Eric.

 

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Oh look the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel!!

 

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Grand Old Station...

 

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Update on station pic above.

"Middletown NY. New york, ontario and western. aka O&W, aka old and weary. 1st class one rr to go belly up. station is listed on NHS. may get knocked in for a heath center. may already be gone."

 

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Update on station pic above.

"Middletown NY. New york, ontario and western. aka O&W, aka old and weary. 1st class one rr to go belly up. station is listed on NHS. may get knocked in for a heath center. may already be gone."

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That would be a shame but not uncommon...

 

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Kudos to the photographer...picture tells a story

 

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Kudos to the photographer...picture tells a story

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Looks like rural Alberta.....in September.... lol..

 

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Just heard this guy talking the other day, something about the weakest link...

 

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Wow. The guys working under it should be wearing hard hats... Obviously going to fail their next COR audit if this picture gets out..

 

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Wow. The guys working under it should be wearing hard hats... Obviously going to fail their next COR audit if this picture gets out..

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... a P.Eng. would know this ...

as well as technically ...
those hard hats better be well engineered too

 

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Not sure what the pic is all about, seem to be celebrating a "Crack Salesman". Its the train n the back that caught my attention...

 

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I think he was an ex plumber.

 

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Saw this experimental loco some time ago found this 1931 picture with a steam loco pulling alongside...

 

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This one could have also been posted in your Pictures for Xfire thread Murray... Yup... Guess the manufacturer...lol

 

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Jamie Davis would have got this one upright with a bungee cord...

 

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First load of C1's finally arriving in town...

 

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