Re: (erielack) RE: Russian Decapods

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Strasburg RR's No. 90 is a one-of-a-kind Bladwin product built for the Great 
Western Railway of Loveland, Colorado. As mentioned in another post it spent 
most of its life hauling sugar beets(and you wondered what those little black 
specks in your suagar came from? Now you know!) until retired in the early 
1960's. It gained fame as a fantripper both on GWR and here in the east when 
it hauled two High Iron Co. Steam Safaris doubleheaded with Steamtown's 127 
on the CNJ to Ashley, Pa. On the first of these trips it derailed desending 
the grade from Penobscot on a bitter cold February day stranding several 
hundred passengers and crewmembers for most of the night until busses were 
hired to transport us back to Newark, NJ, the starting point of the trip.

At least one other Frisco Russian Decapod survives at the Illinios Railway 
Museum in Union, Illinios. It is operational as far as I know.

Al Holleuffer

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