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Somebody stole the gons!! And the Rogers!

... And the flatcars that were parked down near the water tower are gone, too! Strange things happening in the night

Holy Crap! Those gons are the coal tipple gons! So used to them, I missed it in my first view. Must be a new load of coaL IS DUE!

Tom C.

I don't know what became of Mr. Roger; he's possibly in the swamp. The gons are at the far North end of the yard on one of the oil rack tracks. The morning power, 487 I think?, did the honors, using the flat cars as idlers. Possibly they didn't trust the locomotive that far up the ramp; the track looks a tad fragile to this uninformed eye. The flat cars were then stashed behind the rotary plow, I think, or somewhere in that vicinity. 15 just came out and finished the box car move. That string of cars is now parked on the far west track, south of the station. Quite an extensive rearranging of the furniture, I'd say. Anything to do with restoring the roundhouse?

be well,
bob roman

Bob, The roundhouse is still in the planning stages. If anything I think the moves were done to free up a track next to the roundhouse to be used as a ready track, to position the Friends cars to a storage area now that the work session season is over and to place some of the rolling stock where it will be readily available to be used for future charters