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Date: 10/30/14 09:50
A MOOving experience on GM&O
Author: hogheaded

Out of a 1936 National Geographic.

-E.O

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Date: 10/30/14 10:05
Re: A MOOving experience on GM&O
Author: rswebber

It's such a shame that all those were scrapped -they were sitting for a while - available. As arguably, some of the first southern streamliners, they were historic.

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Date: 10/30/14 10:52
Re: A MOOving experience on GM&O
Author: ctillnc

The caption-writer took some license. The train didn't actually pass through Columbia, Miss. It stayed on the opposite side of the river in what's called West Columbia or Foxworth.

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Date: 10/30/14 12:37
Re: A MOOving experience on GM&O
Author: MEKoch

When I took a train from Cairo, Egypt south in 2011 along the Nile River to Luxor, Egypt, this scene was repeated countless times. Oxcarts, camels, etc. were waiting at the crossings.

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Date: 10/30/14 14:12
Re: A MOOving experience on GM&O
Author: hogheaded

> When I took a train from Cairo, Egypt south in
> 2011 along the Nile River to Luxor, Egypt, this
> scene was repeated countless times. Oxcarts,
> camels, etc. were waiting at the crossings.

This makes me wonder if anyone ever took a picture of a feral U.S. Army camel next to a train anywhere in the Southwest.

Here's a camel-eye view of BNSF:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,676380

-E.O.

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Date: 10/30/14 14:40
Re: A MOOving experience on GM&O
Author: RD10747

The farmer said to the cows and the locomotive...
We all must pull together...

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Date: 10/30/14 22:53
Re: A MOOving experience on GM&O
Author: lwilton

Was that a "steamliner" or an early diesel?

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Date: 10/31/14 07:54
Re: A MOOving experience on GM&O
Author: YG

LIKE!

Steve Mitchell
http://www.yardgoatimages.com

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Date: 10/31/14 07:59
Re: A MOOving experience on GM&O
Author: rswebber

lwilton Wrote:
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> Was that a "steamliner" or an early diesel?


Yes. Both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_%28train%29

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Date: 10/31/14 08:01
Re: A MOOving experience on GM&O
Author: rswebber

See:

http://www.westernrailimages.com/Gulf-Mobile-and-Ohio-Railroad/Gulf-Mobile-and-Ohio-Railroad/7250956_WNr8dQ/620142492_Vnnfp8r#!i=620142492&k=Vnnfp8r

For some images of later for this equipment...

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Date: 10/31/14 17:57
Re: A MOOving experience on GM&O
Author: lwilton

rswebber Wrote:
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> lwilton Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> > Was that a "steamliner" or an early diesel?
>
> Yes. Both.

You missed my pun in that creative misspelling, but thanks for the links, they answered my questions!

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