Re: (erielack) New photos on website Aug 14th - LOCATIONS, PEOPLE ?

["Bruce Ipe" <bruceipe_@_gmail.com>]

Several weeks ago, I saw a photo of a long frieght train on this list with
almost all of the box cars door open.  JB Ipe

On 8/15/06, Robert Stafford <erielack1_@_yahoo.com> wrote:
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> "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com> wrote:    >>Bob,
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> >>My stupid question of the day...why are the front/rear(?) doors to the
> MUs
> >>open? It doesn't appear to be an unusually warm day.
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> >Don't know. No particular reason. Maybe a cut was made and no one closed
> up after?
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> > Bob
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> My guess is that it was to keep any mustiness out of the cars. Remember,
> by this point they were 40 years old, and it's nice to air out the old
> beauties every so often. :)
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> More likely someone was just too lazy to close the doors behind them. Look
> around any yard and you will see equipment with open windows or doors due to
> no one wanting to put the effort into closing them behind them.
> Bob Stafford
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