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To: r9etb

In a way it actually kinda describes him, something thats so long it defies imagination and could not turn in any direction.

For those that are scratching their heads its train talk of the wheel set arrangement of locomotives, the famous UP steam train out of Cheyenne Wyoming is a Challenger 4-6-6-4, the Big Boy a 4-8-8-4 so something like a 0-0-0-0 means it has no wheels, its not going ANYWHERE.


26 posted on 01/21/2009 7:52:00 AM PST by Eye of Unk (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
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To: Eye of Unk
Here's a typically ugly Russian creation:

It's billed as a "4-8-2+2-8-4."

28 posted on 01/21/2009 8:02:49 AM PST by r9etb
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