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Re: palouse

Author: stacktalk

Date: 07-06-2013 - 14:08

Steve,
Both the longtime BN and UP agents from Moscow are still in town and doing well. Leo Condota retired off the BN and Frank Schnieder from the UP. I often get together with them for coffee and pump them for stories. They love it. Both are in their 90's but doing well.
A short story about Leo that set me back one time. I was showing him some photos of the SP&S 700 when it had run across Montana on it's Montana by Steam trip. It looked great in that natural "NP background" where Leo had grown up as a kid. His father was a section foreman at Blossburg and at Desmit so he knew where about every photo was taken. We talked for a while and he finally said...."I remember when they were NEW!!" And he did. He recalls the word was passed to be on the lookout for the big new A class passenger engines that would be pulling the North Coast Limited.

That was very cool for me. I had been looking at the engine as an antique and here in front of me was a guy who remembered them as state of the art power.

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stacktalk Wrote:
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> Steve,
> Both the longtime BN and UP agents from Moscow are
> still in town and doing well.  Leo Condota retired
> off the BN and Frank Schnieder from the UP.  I
> often get together with them for coffee and pump
> them for stories.  They love it.  Both are in
> their 90's but doing well.  
> A short story about Leo that set me back one time.
>  I was showing him some photos of the SP&S 700
> when it had run across Montana on it's Montana by
> Steam trip.  It looked great in that natural "NP
> background" where Leo had grown up as a kid.  His
> father was a section foreman at Blossburg and at
> Desmit so he knew where about every photo was
> taken.  We talked for a while and he finally
> said...."I remember when they were NEW!!"  And he
> did.  He recalls the word was passed to be on the
> lookout for the big new A class passenger engines
> that would be pulling the North Coast Limited.  
> 
> That was very cool for me.  I had been looking at
> the engine as an antique and here in front of me
> was a guy who remembered them as state of the art
> power.

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