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Re: (erielack) K1 in Korea
Has anyone tried to find it with Google Earth? I'm not sure where to look.
Jon
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From: "Joseph A. Braun" <joebraun_@_optonline.net>
To: <erielack_@_Lists.Railfan.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: (erielack) K1 in Korea
> Many thanks for the substantive responses on this question. It is an
> historical fact -- not any legend -- that an Erie K1 went to Korea. It is
> also a paradoxical "fact" that in our circle anyway no one factually knows
> what happened to that engine -- making for a very intriguing, unanswered
> historical question. If there are no photos of the engine in
> "preservation",
> there are also none after it arrived in Korea in 1954. If there are no
> records of its service, there are also no records of its destruction
> either.
> Such ambiguity naturally fuels rumor and fantasy and the search for
> closure.
> That is what makes historians!
> Joe Braun
>
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