04-05-2009, 02:56 PM
TrainNut Wrote:Either that's a brand new utility pole or all the 'lectrical wires went and fell off. Better call the 'lectric company too.
'Sides, whoever said trains can't drive on roads better tell that to this one...
There's a great picture around somewhere from the Ice Storm of '98 in eastern Canada / NE US. In Boucherville, Quebec, I think, CN took a couple of their locos down a road to set up as a generating station. They were actually "driven" under their own power...
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Andrew