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Re: Oh my God...the horror!!! -Little sherman bump
Author: Alco
Date: 01-03-2020 - 21:10
EX La Verne Wrote:
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> True!
>
> The figure the "truck driver" of the team told a
> visiting group in the parking lot was 100% !!!
That would be the ex-Swift driver.
>
> 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.
He insisted that the new track be laid in the CSRM to
HIS specifications, in spite of numerous warnings that
he was insisting the curve be sharper than it should be.
Whe he derailed 844's tender in the exact spot he had
been warned about, blocking the mainlines, he blamed the
derailment on the UP Western Region track people.
Who then had to spend a lot of money on overtime re-laying
that curve to the specs it would have have been before the
Steam God stuck his expert nose into it.
Paybacks are a @#$%&.
Funniest part was when he tried to lay the panels in the
parking lot at the fairgrounds to the same degree of curve
he insisted upon at SAC. The 4014 tender didn't like that
any more than 844 did, and they got the tender on the ground
in the parking lot.
>
> Ed's Special Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The whole "let's restore a 4000" was conceived
> by
> > Ed. 3985 was deemed unsafe by Ed just to
> promote
> > his 4000 "show". Remember when 3985 was parked
> > "unsafe" shortly after pulling the 2010 Circus
> > Train it still had like 2 years left on boiler
> > time.
> >
> > Anybody remember the first lie told by ED far
> as
> > restoring 4014?? That was an anonymous donor
> was
> > putting up 50% of the funds and volunteers
> would
> > be used to keep costs down. That's the only way
> he
> > could get the outrageous costs (which he was
> well
> > aware of) approved by Omaha. Few weeks after
> the
> > deal was made with Rail Giants the anonymous
> donor
> > withdrew their offer. Google it as Trains
> Magazine
> > ran a story on it.
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> True!
>
> The figure the "truck driver" of the team told a
> visiting group in the parking lot was 100% !!!
That would be the ex-Swift driver.
>
> I never did find out how or why Edgar pissed off a
> service unit and ended up with beat up track
> panels as a result.
He insisted that the new track be laid in the CSRM to
HIS specifications, in spite of numerous warnings that
he was insisting the curve be sharper than it should be.
Whe he derailed 844's tender in the exact spot he had
been warned about, blocking the mainlines, he blamed the
derailment on the UP Western Region track people.
Who then had to spend a lot of money on overtime re-laying
that curve to the specs it would have have been before the
Steam God stuck his expert nose into it.
Paybacks are a @#$%&.
Funniest part was when he tried to lay the panels in the
parking lot at the fairgrounds to the same degree of curve
he insisted upon at SAC. The 4014 tender didn't like that
any more than 844 did, and they got the tender on the ground
in the parking lot.
>
> Ed's Special Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 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.
