The most perfect locomotive

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A. B.
Regarding the obvious question -- the east enders (Crewe-Lamberts  Point)
have a tale about an engineer blowing No. 26 across the Dismal Swamp.
At the east end of the swamp,  Deep Creek Blvd. was a protected  crossing.
The driver of an automobile failed to heed the warnings of the whistle  and
the wig-wag and got clobbered crossing the tracks.
 
After the remnants of the automobile and driver had been removed, the
state highway patrol officer began filling out forms.  He came to  the
engineer and eventually came the obvious -  SPEED ?  The  engineer
responded that he didn't know.  The officer wasn't riled, nor did he  
sarcastically 
ask "You don't KNOW ?"  Apparently he realized that the event  had
traumatized  the hogger and decided not to pursue it. After all, it  was a 
clear
case of ignoring the signal and the driver was just as dead at  a  train speed
of 60 MPH as he would have been had the train been making 70  MPH.
 
 Returning to the Class J, the fireman looked quizzically at the  engineer.
The engineer responded, "It (the speed indicator arrow) was sitting of  the 
peg."  
 
                                                         Harry Bundy
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