Re: (erielack) Last Christmas

[Bruce Ipe <bruceipe_@_gmail.com>]

Why do we get these giant photos?

JB Ipe

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Ronald <rdukarm_@_roadrunner.com> wrote:

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> I looked for a Christmas photo to post, but decided on this forlorn siding
> somewhere in the forgotton ends of East Buffalo Yard. The old Erie boxcars
> must have been sitting here quite a while. A 20-foot tree sprouted up behind
> them. Their identifying numbers are long gone. One is missing its doors.
> Since the opening of Bison Yard in 1963, that is where most of the action
> is. Old East Buffalo Yard is religated to a lot of storage for old veterans.
> This would be their last Christmas, as the next Spring CR would send them to
> the scrapper.
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> The object of my photo was the MOW gon. Her sides were cut down and she is
> ID'd as the transport for truck crane 7004. She appears to have many years
> of like left in her. She awaits the coming of Spring and another MOW season.
> I probably shot this over the Christmas holidays as the yard was deserted at
> that time and I felt more comfortable about entering.
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> Ron Dukarm
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