Railroaders' Nostalgia > 80th birthday cake

My wife and I turned in the past few weeks-months.  So over Christmas, the kids had a party for us.   My cake was an Amtrak P42.   Eddie's in Baltimore created the cake.  I was pleasantly surprised by their depiction of this familiar locomotive.  Ues, it was quite tasty.  

Like many of you, I could not qualify now as a railroader, with poor vision, poor hearing, and moving much slower.  But still like to work on track......

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Sweet!

Happy 80th! Nice cake, too.

Rebecca Morgan
Jacobsburg, OH

Happy 80'th. I'll catch you in 5 years. I understand about being slower. I'd like to run an engine again for fun , but climbing up the steps would kill my shoulders and knees.

Congrats on the milestone.

Sam

Belated Happy Birthday to the both of you! Great looking cake!

Locoinsp Wrote:
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> Belated Happy Birthday to the both of you! Great
> looking cake!

And second that motion! Hope you had a really nice celebration...the cake looks terrific (and glad to hear it tasted good, too). All best wishes for health and happiness in the years ahead.

MC

Happy 80th !!

cool picture....thnaks for sharing and happy 80th.

Happy 80. Consider it as Seaboard engine crews did - 80 is just a beginning.

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Notch 7, I knew some SAL engineers that found a new family bible every few years. And I know what you mean by 80 is just the beginning.

Sam

What a great cake and Happy 80th !
Gary

Wow. Way nice! Congrats to you!

Bob Phelps
Micanopy, FL

A belated Happy Birthday, Michael !  I've just been enjoying an evening going back through older postings I had not visited and found yours.  2½ weeks ago on the 25th I had the exact same two candles perched on the top of my birthday cake baked by my daughter.  Being blessed with an almost full recovery from a serious stroke 6 years ago, I'm still running trains, though on 2½' gauge instead of standard gauge.  I started running trains for the Washington Park & Zoo Railway in Portland two years before I retired from Amtrak on 08/31/06, ending my Class 1 employment at exactly 40 years.  The oldest of the zoo's six locomotives turned 99 this month and its newest, a model of the Virginia & Truckee "Reno", turns 67 next month.

The B day cake looks pretty good! Even the Amtrak Blue icing looks right on! 80, eh? I’m 10 mile markers behind you on THAT main line. Advice: stick around a while and don’t let me catch up with you!! 😎

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Super cool cake. Too bad it had to be eaten.Bill Webb