yankingeorgia Wrote:
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> Please, spare me.
>
> I can count on my hands the number of videos that
> show 4014 actually working and still have fingers
> left over.
>
> I've been around every restored main line steamer
> in the last 30 years.
>
> Stop jerking me around with this Ed Dickens
> nonsense.
>
> Steve Lee has forgotten more about steam
> locomotives than Dickens will ever know.
>
> Oh, and also spare me the Ed apologists' nonsense
> about babying the piss out of her so she'll last a
> long long time. If pulling ten passenger cars
> around is going to wear her out, the the
> rebuilding must have been a total joke.
>
> Reminds me of my late father, RIP. Bought me and
> my kid brother baseball gloves and then forbade us
> from playing with them so they would last. Last
> for what?

You just know that this puts Fed Up into a tizzy, don't you?