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Eastern Railroad Discussion > "Smoke em if you got em"Date: 02/02/04 15:01 "Smoke em if you got em" Author: cinder No...not a steam doubleheader....Rather, a pair of Penn Central diesels smoking up Dewitt Yard in Syracuse, NY....1971.
 Date: 02/02/04 17:43 Re: "Smoke em if you got em" Author: GPutz Cinder, those look like "Honerary Steam Engines;" i.e., ALCOs. Gerry
Date: 02/03/04 06:21 Military Smokes Author: cinder I remember hearing the term in the Army in 1967.
Date: 02/03/04 09:52 Re: Military Smokes Author: mp208 I hear that term when the street gangs clash in Washington, DC; just before the gunfire errupts.
Date: 02/03/04 10:02 Re: Military Smokes Author: jonnycando cinder Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I remember hearing the term in the Army in 1967. And in 1982 at Fort Jackson....Army now officially smoke free so doubt one would hear it now. Date: 02/03/04 11:17 Re: Military Smokes Author: aces Also first heard by me in Fort Jackson, S.C., but a long time before 1982. Basic training, March, 1943. Every ten minute break included this phrase. I had not started to smoke then but got over it Europe a while
later. Ace S |