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Re: [BRHSlist] Head End Cars To A Branch

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Head End Cars To A Branch
From: jonathanharris@e...
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:07:15 -0900
The B.G. Corbin photo to which Pete refers is in Steam Locomotives of the
Burlington Route, p. 153. It shows Our Friend, venerable K-2 No. 637,
"...hauling 10 cars of nursery stock from Shenendoah to Red Oak, Iowa." The
photo, unfortunately, is undated. -jh

>One of Corbin's books also has a classic shot of one of the 10 wheelers
>making a run for the hill up to the mainline at Red Oak with a significant
>train of nursery stock in tow. Seems like some book I saw captioned the
>photo as being on "The Savannah Branch" which is not correct. My feeble
>and aged mind says that this photo in one of the bulletins.

>Pete Hedgpeth




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