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Re: (erielack) Re: Western New York Railfans (was re: EL C424s)

Yeah-and now look how ga ga we all get when we see an ex-EL SD45-2 still
running, or even an SDP45 in a scrap line somewhere!!

Tom B
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "David J. Monte Verde" <dmvgvt_@_earthlink.net>
To: "Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>; <RAILDATA@aol.com>;
<quahog_@_sprint.ca>; <erielack@lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: Western New York Railfans (was re: EL C424s)


> I can relate a similar story in 1973 not shooting trains with SD 45's on
> them unless it was CX-99, Advanced Croxton or PB-100, looking for the
U25's,
> Centuries, and F7's on the Main. The train we always looked for was PO-87
> that took 2-3 days to get to Meadville and always drew F7's, and GP7's. In
> the Fall of 1975 one time we found it with a F7A-SD45-F7A rocking along
the
> Canisteo River at 10 MPH, only to outlaw at Cameron, twelve miles east of
> Hornell. As the lawyers say 'shootm all'
>
> Regards David MV

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