Re: Oh my God...the horror!!! -Little sherman bump
Author: EX La Verne
Date: 01-03-2020 - 11:51
True!
The figure the "truck driver" of the team told a visiting group in the parking lot was 100% !!!
I never did find out how or why Edgar pissed off a service unit and ended up with beat up track panels as a result.
Ed's Special Wrote:
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> The whole "let's restore a 4000" was conceived by
> Ed. 3985 was deemed unsafe by Ed just to promote
> his 4000 "show". Remember when 3985 was parked
> "unsafe" shortly after pulling the 2010 Circus
> Train it still had like 2 years left on boiler
> time.
>
> Anybody remember the first lie told by ED far as
> restoring 4014?? That was an anonymous donor was
> putting up 50% of the funds and volunteers would
> be used to keep costs down. That's the only way he
> could get the outrageous costs (which he was well
> aware of) approved by Omaha. Few weeks after the
> deal was made with Rail Giants the anonymous donor
> withdrew their offer. Google it as Trains Magazine
> ran a story on it.