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 Post subject: Re: EMD 567B main bearing torque multiplier reaction arm and
PostPosted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:07 pm 

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Alexander D. Mitchell IV wrote:
M Austin wrote:
I was told by a former manager of the Amtrak Beech Grove shop that during his orientation, his assistant manager showed him the field on the property where he personally buried all the warehoused steam locomotive parts (under orders of course).

[grabs shovel]

Point, please.....


They dug them all up when they built the FEMA concentration camp on site.

Assuming that they exist, you could find them, and you could get permission to dig them up, would anything be left in a salvageable condition this many years later?


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 Post subject: Re: EMD 567B main bearing torque multiplier reaction arm and
PostPosted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 6:59 pm 

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Bobharbison wrote:
Assuming that they exist, you could find them, and you could get permission to dig them up, would anything be left in a salvageable condition this many years later?

Since when does such common sense enter into the situation? (So say all those folks who obsess about buried/sunken steam locomotives.....)


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