Good heavens no, 1518 will never run again! The old codgers from Pahducah shops have all forgotten where the parts and pieces of locomotives go, and the younger folks in that corner of Kentucky couldn't operate anything more complicated than a video game anyway.<p>Just let 'em slap another coat of paint on it every few years, and eventually the Japanese or Arabs will pick it up cheap and haul it off, to make little cars or razor blades or something out of.<p>After all, Paducah's not like those big cities like Ft Wayne in Indiana, where their engine [NKP 765] was restored and is up and running again. And there's only one place around Paducah that I can think of where that sort of work might be done, and those silly fools don't know the first thing about locomotives....<p>-archy-/-<br>
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