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Re: The Final Journey--- BHC malfunction
Author: Jim Spicer
Date: 10-10-2012 - 06:47

Drew, Thanks for the wonder pictures of 104. This brings back many memories for me. The first time I saw this locomotive was when I was about five, before WW II. My dad was interested in buying some of the equipment out of the Silver Falls Timber Co mill at Silverton OR. The R. A. Babb company of Eugene was selling the mill equipment. An old friend of my dads was in Silverton conducting the sale. While there we looked at the locomotive, my dads friend ask if I would like to ring the bell, naturally I would and with help into the cab did.

The next time I saw 104 was in about 1950, our family went to the fat stock show at the PI building in Portland. Spotting the engine house with the locomotive sitting outside hot and ready to go I made a bee line for it. It was a Sunday so there was not a lot of activity. The Peninsula Terminal switched the stock yards, when a stock car was dropped at the interchange they would pick it up and take to a stock pen and unload it. That day I made three trips to the interchange in the cab. What a wonderful day for a twelve year old.

Thanks for the memories.
Jim

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  The Final Journey---The Black Hills Central 10-9-12 Drew Jacksich 10-09-2012 - 21:13
  Re: The Final Journey---The Black Hills Central 10-9-12 Howard 10-09-2012 - 21:33
  Re: The Final Journey---The Black Hills Central 10-9-12 Margaret (SP fan) 10-09-2012 - 21:52
  Re: The Final Journey---The Black Hills Central 10-9-12 Rich Hunn 10-10-2012 - 15:25
  Re: The Final Journey---The Black Hills Central 10-9-12 matt jacksich 10-09-2012 - 22:24
  Re: The Final Journey---The Black Hills Central 10-9-12 Jim700 10-10-2012 - 00:30
  Re: The Final Journey---The Black Hills Central 10-9-12 Drew Jacksich 10-10-2012 - 07:11
  Re: The Final Journey--- BHC malfunction Argonaut 10-10-2012 - 03:17
  Re: The Final Journey--- BHC malfunction Jim Spicer 10-10-2012 - 06:47
  About a week before Drew's visit Bill Kohler 10-10-2012 - 06:49
  Re: The Final Journey---The Black Hills Central 10-9-12 Chas 10-10-2012 - 08:34
  Re: The Final Journey---The Black Hills Central 10-9-12 Rich Hunn 10-10-2012 - 15:27
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