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On some units, even taday (2012) there's still units runnin' around with the 'Eph' thingy located so as ta conphuse the elsest, most experienced of enginemen, and shop grunts alike...

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Cy Valley wrote:
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On some units, even taday (2012) there's still units runnin' around with the 'Eph' thingy located so as ta conphuse the elsest,* most experienced of enginemen, and shop grunts alike...

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 Uke edits: *eldest. Sorry for any conphusion Cy... Uke is growing his own iProblems... Not cataracts however...



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Uke wrote:

 Uke edits: *eldest. Sorry for any conphusion Cy... Uke is growing his own iProblems... Not cataracts however...

no Uke can edit posts without the scarlet edit of shame showing up below the post. no



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Snippy wrote:
Uke wrote:

 Uke edits: *eldest. Sorry for any conphusion Cy... Uke is growing his own iProblems... Not cataracts however...

no Uke can edit posts without the scarlet edit of shame showing up below the post. no

 Simple(st) 'splanation for S.Nippy: Quoting another member's post, then adding footnotes *EDIT: Is merely akin to, hence a NEW post!

See above.  Tres facile non? yawn.gif



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Snippy writes again:

no Uke can edit posts without the scarlet edit of shame showing up below the post. no

 



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Snippy wrote:
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no Uke can edit posts without the scarlet edit of shame showing up below the post. no

 

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-- Edited by Uke on Monday 1st of October 2012 09:17:41 AM



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The Ukearist?

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The Ukearist?

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The Ukearist?

 Uke is now appropriately shamed!*

*No thanks to Snippy!




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Pretty sure the JFK funeral train was pulled by GG1's.

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Pretty sure the JFK funeral train was pulled by GG1's.

 Krink, that was the RFK funeral train and yet, it was.



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They killed two folk with the "bomb squad" for that one, ISRC.



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Yes, they did, Snippy, I remember that. I was in NYC the night that RFK was shot, yes, I'm old, senior class trip. We were supposed to go to the afternoon Dick Cavett Show taping but it was cancelled as a result of the previous evening's events. We had gone to St. Patrick's Cathedral that day, where the funeral was a few days later.

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The Odors' take:

 

...the lead gg1 is at museum in Dallas 




An incredibly emotional train ride..." on June 8, 1968. 

CNN has compiled previously unseen photographs taken from aboard the RFK funeral train on its journey to Washington, D.C 

Perhaps one of the last mass presences of citizenry across the country at rail stations and track side? 

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/06/06/rfk.something.happening.here.cnn 

Here are some of the photographs: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0108/train01.htm 

More information on the train: 

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Robert Kennedy's 21 car funeral train left New York City for Washington, DC. The train was led by GG1 number 4901 with number 4903 trailing, and ended with Penn Central open-platform business car number 120 carrying the body of the late Senator. 

A three car pilot train pulled by GG1 number 4932 ran ahead of the funeral train and GG1s numbers 4900 and 4910 followed light as back-up motive power. 

At Elizabeth, NJ, the crowd moved onto the tracks to get a view of the special train, just as "The Admiral", heading to New York City from Chicago, was rounding a curve. "The Admiral's" GG1 sounded its horn, but some of the people in the crowd did not clear the track in time and sadly two were killed and four seriously injured. 

After the tragic accident the Penn Central ordered all train movement stopped until the special train passed. The funeral train arrived in Washington's Union Station four hours behind schedule and had caused disruption to the entire railroad. 



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Part 2 of 4 of the GG-1 'tribute' films from PRR's publicity dept. didn't do justice to the unit, but they did go into some detail further on, about the last run of the last one on New Jersey Transit.

Didn't know they even nicknamed that one "Big Red" for that Tuscan red, and gold stripes... The original Pennsy livery. Wonder where she is now?




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