Carol L. Voss Wrote:
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> smitty195 Wrote:
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> > What an ugly beast! I never knew that they ran
> > that train to Santa Cruz. I remember stepping
> off
> > the Starlight in Portland and seeing this thing
> > parked on the station track. Ugly!!!
>
> IIRC, this was one of several "model" trains ATK
> was running around the country for demo purposes.
> The German ICE train (which was actually an
> Israeli trainset borrowed for the occasion) and
> the Talgos. IIRC it was a Talgo set that they
> inched out on the ill-fated Monterey (Brooklyn
> Bridge) branch in August '99 to demonstrate what
> could be done, only to find that the track was in
> such rotten shape, regardless of the dusting of
> cosmetically "new" ballast for Photo purposes,
> that they couldn't demo very much. After that
> fiasco, UP summarily removed the switch at
> Castroville and nary a wheel has turned on the
> rails since. My good friend, the late Danny
> Boehr, was in charge of these demo train projects
> for ATK and somewhere I have an hilarious post he
> wrote about unloading the ICE train off the boat
> at the Baltimore shipyards----something about
> German train with Israeli translator on Liberian
> boat with Yugoslavian crew and assorted union
> types on the docks, not to mention a sizeable dent
> incurred on one train car by a giant hook.
> C.

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