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Cy Valley


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Clavalin's power awaits at Cumberland, on display:

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Thats the track where they would always park the wrecked units that

were waiting for parts. Mostly as a reminder of "Look what you did."

You walked by them ewhere you parked your car in the parking lot.



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They hid wrecked units away in Belletucky, they'd set them down by the old NKP roundhouse outside right next to the building.

Worst I ever saw was Richard Marks' unit more or less loaded up in a gondola setting in the Fort in 1991.

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Nastiest sounding horn ever made sitting up top waiting to deafen hundreds of engineers, B-0-Ts, and assorted train crew. LAMCO drilled a hole in the roof and put a porthole up there for ventilation when they cut cabooses off. All it did was make sure you heard the horn better before you got deaf.

Nice touch on the number font on the side of the cab, though. Straight off the Green Team. I reckon those are 'visible' GP40 (or GP35?) maintenance demonstrators? Is Snippy the only one here who built a "Visible V8" as a young cherub? Snippy was more intu huffing glue than being a great model builder.

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I worked in my father's glue factory. If I quit a few weeks earlier, I could have been a genius...

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Wow, buncka glue sniffers here, Cy had no idea.

Display was sometime 1969 or after in Cumberland, apparently young Clavalin didn't see it, tu far away from Cumberland back in those days and a lack of mobility.

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Cy Valley wrote:

Wow, buncka glue sniffers here, Cy had no idea.
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Clavalin responds: 

 Throw us a bone, dude.  The pics in question were made

from screen shots, so they could be cells from an old movie,

or home video, or copywrited pictures out of a book or magazine.

I'm wondering now if it is from Cumberland. it is a gp40 and a sd40.

 

 

 



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It came up on the B&O Historical discussion group, it just says display at Cumberland after April, 1969, I just found it sort of interesting that they'd display a locomotive to the public with the hood removed. That's all I know, I wasn't trying to create a mystery.

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