You're beginning to make me think we hang out with, or are, a bad crowd.

You are aware of the alleged backstory of how he lost one eye, are you not? It was recounted somewhere way back in the archival depths of this forum........

I'm afraid not, but it sounds like it's something that shouldn't have happened.

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From late 2003.

The picture was definitely taken in 1991-August 10th-to be exact. I took the picture standing in the Meadow Creek, W.Va. yard. I heard the story of how Peace Sign Guy lost his eye but at a different type rally but that's neither here nor there. At some point the story around the shop in Ft Wayne was that he had passed away. Never saw the guy on the left any trips before this nor after this. In fact I don't think we ever saw Superheater on another trip. These were the events that made every trip an adventure. There was hardly ever a dull moment in the tool car.

In the Hopewell Production's 1218 video "Eighteen Wheels of Steel", there is a very brief pacing scene of 1218 where the peace sign appears to be floating above the locomotive! It was on a stick mounted on Supe's car. BTW, my understanding is that David is still with us, nearly 80 y/o! There are occasional sightings of him at a local Suburban MD public library, sometimes at a computer on the interwebs.

I wasn't going to get back into this topic, but since someone else introduced David into it, I'll recount my first encounter with him. It was at the 1976 East Broad Top Winter Spectacular, my first trip to the EBT when they were operating. I was 18, and in my freshman year of college. Tom Davidson, from this forum, and his nephew Mark Perri were part of this trip from Akron as well, in fact it was the trip I first met Tom on. I was standing somewhere in the vicinity of the Orbisonia Station waiting to photograph a train departing, when David walks up to me for no apparent reason and says, "There aren't very many patriotic railfans around here". Either I walked away quickly, or he moved on right after that, but it was a very strange hit-and-run encounter.

They eventually showed up in Chama, NM.


It was an event that one cannot "un-remember"........