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4th May 2016, 01:38 AM
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What can one say but just Wow!!!
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4th May 2016, 04:46 AM
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Hi Vernon.
Thought the trains up at the iron ore mines were long but that is a long train.
Cheers Des
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4th May 2016, 06:35 AM
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The only station long enough for that may be the one in Wales with the very long name. LOL


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4th May 2016, 06:37 AM
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A Bleedin Monster Des!
Can you imagine the Power of those Diesel Locos !
Amazing that they can pull such a load!
Cripes!!!
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4th May 2016, 06:38 AM
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John
Me thinks that one would need Quite a few of those Stations! LOL
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4th May 2016, 07:15 AM
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I counted four power units, overheard in cab of engine #2, 'are you sure Joe is going the right way'
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4th May 2016, 07:25 AM
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In the video of the Panama canal, the vessel in the other lock, the "Crane Arrow" is I think a Gearbulk ship of which Buries Markes were founder members.
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5th May 2016, 06:53 AM
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Just out of curiocity where di the train come from and where was it going?


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5th May 2016, 10:27 AM
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On the Panama Video those Mules we saw in the Fifties now seem to have grown into Shire Horses.....
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