[Spridgets] Annual Train Calendar Giveaway

[David Groundwater]

This place is great fun if you're ever in the Northern Illinois area. I'm sure
there are others

http://www.irm.org/

http://www.irm.org/steamdept/index.html

> To: rrengineer.mike at att.net; WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com;
spridgets at autox.team.net
> From: rbhouston at aol.com
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:14:47 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Annual Train Calendar Giveaway
>
> UP apparently still has two.  One was still operating about a year ago.  I
got
> to take about a ten mile trip on it.  They move it around the country to
give
> employees and VIPs a chance to see what it used to be like.  One of the
cars
> it pulls is a complete machine shop and another is parts...just to keep it
> going.
>
>
> Robert
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net>
> To: WeslakeMonza1330 <WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com>; spridgets
> <spridgets at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thu, Oct 24, 2013 11:26 am
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Annual Train Calendar Giveaway
>
>
> No. Steam was last used in the 50's.  Although there are some steam trains
> operating in this country at tourist locations and amusement parks.
> Mike
> >________________________________
> > From: "WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com"
> <WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com>
> >To: rrengineer.mike at att.net;
> spridgets at autox.team.net
> >Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 9:29 AM
> >Subject:
> Re: [Spridgets] Annual Train Calendar Giveaway
> >
> >
> >
> >Are the trains steam
> trains?
> >
> >In a message dated 23/10/2013 22:58:36 GMT Daylight Time,
> tncarnut1 at yahoo.com writes:
> >
> >>OK
>   folks
> >>it's time for the highly
> anticipated annual train calendar giveaway!
> >>All you
> >>train buffs out there
> (we on the railroad call them "foamers"
>   due to
> >>the
> >>foaming at the mouth
> at the mere sighting of a train) get
>   your fingers
> >>ready
> >>to send the
> first email to get your new 2014 BNSF
>   train calendar.
> >>Really I
> >>see
> trains every effing day.  I don't
>   need no stinking train pictures
> >>in my
> >>house. So, first email I receive
>   gets the 2014 calendar, free of
> >>charge.  As
> >>an added bonus, I have
>   the 2013 calandar also for a
> consolation
> >>prize to
> >>anyone who wants
>   that.
> >>
> >>Mike Maclean
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