Clean-up continues after the crew made a mess of scrap rail and dirt after the run around siding at Eatonville, WV was relaid after GP35 #5642 derailed while on switching duty on December 17th, 2002. Chairman and CEO of the Appalachian and Atlantic Railroad Company, Pat Miller, expressed his happiness of the Deal for additional B23-7s and B30-7s from CSX, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific. " We are pleased to be buying B23-7's and B30-7's because we need to save money during the struggling economy and we need to retire the old F7's that are almost 60 years old. GP35 #5642, formerly Western Maryland 3579, derailed on December 17th, 2002 in Eatonville during a Switching assignment. The engine has been temporarily placed on the utility siding at the ACMI #11 mine in Bankwood, OH, 6 miles north of Parkersburg, WV, until it will get the two new plows that had been on order from the railroad's Charlotte, NC parts wareouse. The Eatonville City Housing Develpoment Authority has also apporoved building permits for Whittaker Construction Co. to start building 4 new houses on 3rd street parallel with the industrial railroad line serviced by the A&A. The ECHD has also apporoved permits for Coca-Cola to build a new Bottling plant on the corner of Rt.440 and 3rd street. The city of Eatonville also approved of the placement of grass across most of the city. City Manager I.M. Fatts stated "The residents of Eatonville are starting to get tired of green painted homasote and frequent appearance of I.L.O.'s (Identified Laying Objects), i.e. monstrous pliers and the ever freared gigantic tweezer!" That's it for this edtion, we'll be back when we feel like it to stir more chaos in the Free-Lancers' forum.
Congrats on the progress being made. I can relate to the fears of the Eatonville residents. As the mayor of Augsburg, I get lots of complaints about items as well. Our tweezers have proven harmless. However, the city is still trying to settle a wrongful death lawsuit over the mysterious death of two people from the Preiser family when a very large soldering iron fell from the sky and melted them. Jeff Augsburg & Concord R.R. (a fictional shortline in Central Illinois) http://www.pegnsean.net/~revnjeff
