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Re:Re: (erielack) Fw: The Ghost Train
I was just kiding about the TRI-RAIL official, but the other - Leroy Utter
was, indeed, an EL (DL&W) engineer I worked with in the 1960s who HAD been
in France in WW1. Jim Sharpe, on the other hand only SEEMED to be over 100
years old.
Walt Smith
>From: "Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>
>Reply-To: "Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>
>To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
>Subject: Re:Re: (erielack) Fw: The Ghost Train
>Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:08:03 EDT
>
>Joe -- check today's date!
>
>Randy Brown
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>Hey guys-
>
>Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I've always taken Walter's stories as
>gospel but let's figure this out.
>
>The flagman, who let say started working for the railroad at age 15, was
>the flagman on the Lincoln Funeral Train at 15 in 1856! and he still works
>for Tri-Rail (whatever that is). That means he's at least 164 years. That
>must be a new record for long life??? or do we have our dates/trains mixed
>up???
>
>And I thought I was older than dirt.
>
>-Joe Jordan
>
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