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Re: PC: Hump Engines -Reply



It's hard to start a concrete block eh?  *grins*

Bill K.

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> From: George Alberti <Georgedieselman -AT- webtv.net>
> To: penn-central -AT- smellycat.com
> Subject: Re: PC: Hump Engines -Reply
> Date: Monday, June 14, 1999 8:46 PM
> 
> Thanks Bob, I forgot all about the carbody on covered wagons being a
> integral  part.  We have had a couple of CSX road slug units come into
> Conway on occasion.  I think they were GP30s.  The cab is intact with
> all controls still in place.  I believe you can control off the slug end
> if you had to.  The first time I came across one, I didn't realize it
> was a slug.  Boy did I fill foolish trying to start this thing.  I
> worked my way down the walkway  trying to figure out why there were no
> access doors to the engine room.  I finally came across one on the left
> rear of the unit around where the air comp. is.  Finally the light came
> on.  I still get poked at about that one.
> 
>                                              George Alberti
> 


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