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From: chaltas@uiucdcsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: American Coal Enterprises
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Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 09:56:00 EDT
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> Also, any GG1 fanatics out there?

Pant - pant (ograph) -- You bet.  They have always been rather scarce in
the boondocks of Illinois though.  I finally aquired an N scale model of
one of these giants last summer -- even though I model neither Pennsy,
nor Conrail, nor NJ transit, nor (ugh) Penn Central, nor Amtrak (northeast
corridor).  In fact, I haven't the faintest idea how to justify running
a GG1 on a railroad set in the White Mountains, and I don't care.  I remember
seeing them in New Haven as a teenager (me, not the GG1's) and being thrilled.
I was amazed that something so huge and powerful could be all but silent.  I
still am.  (I know that they aren't really silent, but to someone who grew
up with B&M geeps they sure seemed that way).  Anyway, I'll miss them.

		George Chaltas  chaltas!uiucdcs