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Re:RE: (erielack) Fwd: [Susquehanna] Yes one does remain K-!

It's urban legend time again!  The Erie K-1 surfaces every few months, always seen 20 years ago and never seen by the correspondent.  The same wording -- "All things American are saced the Koreans" -- appears frequently.  Yeah, right!  That's why they buy so many Fords and Chevys and send us KIAs  (Anybody ever relate K.I.A. to M.I. A.?)

Another detail is missing most of the time -- the locomotive was lettered and diamonded in white; Koreans don't like yellow.

Some say it's in a warehouse; some say a museum.  Wherever it is, let's see a photo dated less than a year ago.  Of course, someone will have to move all those crates of jeeps still packed in cosmolene to get a decent shot.

Randy Brown
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> The locomotive was sent to Korea during the war and was used, 
> the Head 
> of the Army's mechanical Department was an Erie man and the 
> engine was 
> painted back to its Erie scheme, with the exception that where the 
> number would have been written on the cab was replaced with ERIE.
> Several people have tried to bring it home, but the Korean government 
> refuses and it is placed as a museum piece. It is the only remaining 
> Erie locomotive known to exsist as the Erie scrapped all of there 
> locomotives.

I find it funny that with all this discussion that not ONE photo has surfaced of the supposedly "preserved" Erie K-1. Like the old saying goes, "I'll believe it when I see it."

Can anyone provide specifics about what museum the locomotive is supposedly preserved in?

    - Paul


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