Re: Strategic Reserve.

["Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au>]

MarkBau1 wrote in message <19990830050110.20413.00001513@ng-cs1.aol.com>...
>GOD doth spaketh thus:
>
><<<I've never heard of a strategic reserve of locomotives in the UK, but
>several countries in Central and Eastern Europe had locomotive reserves
>in case of war. >>>>>
>
>Yeah, another "good for a laugh" urban legend. Those countries were/are so
poor
>they melted the buggars down as soon as the last fire was dropped. Cheaper
to
>melt them down for steel that to import iron ore and process it.
>
>I think Azaria was shoved inside the firebox of one of these mythical
loco's.
>GOD, you are old enough to know who Azaria is/was aren't you?
>
Oh no, a loco stole my baby!!!

(Was it really blood in the front seat or coal dust...)