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Re: (erielack) ELHS vs URHS
All,
I went to the URHS event last year. The local NS Dover job H-02 power
(3010) and caboose was parked just outside the URHS yard. Perhaps this
year he will have the unit as his power for that day (instead of/in
addition to 3010)?
Mike
On 06/29/2013 12:30 PM, paultup_@_comcast.net wrote:
>> Can we please not pollute our list with the political stuff?
>> Moderators...care to step in and put a stop to this now?
> Yes, please remove all political discourse from your discussions unless it has to do with the history of the railroads. <sorry, hard to moderate quickly when I'm out of country!>
>
>> Now, it seems that maybe if we had asked, the answer might not
>> have been "No." Someone at the URHS evidently "didn't get the memo"
>> about not bothering NS with such requests and they asked anyway.
>> And darn it if NS didn't say "YES!" (Which incidentally, is really cool for
>> all the fans up there in NJ.)
> I think that circumstances changed since the North Carolina event. There's been a slump in coal traffic, the units' original job, but a rise in oil traffic, which has seen many of the Heritage units traveling well outside of the normal coalfield assignment.
>
> And as it was pointed out, NS is a *PRIVATE ENTIITY* and *NO ONE* is "entitled" to get anything from them. They are very gracious to send the unit to NJ for this event, and for that I thank them.
>
> - Paul
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