Hi Bob
On (22 Jul 97) Bob Wallace wrote to Alec Cameron...
 BW> As for trains being taken apart and swapped around, far more than the
 BW> old Rock Island Line here in the States managed such a routine operation
 BW> at outlying stations. The old Baltimore & Ohio did the same thing in
 BW> Ohio on the run from Washington, D.C., to Chicago, with a section of
 BW> that train being switched at Deshler, Ohio, many years ago for the
 BW> several cars that made up the train going north to Detroit, Michigan.
Thanks for that and the following interesting story. I hope some Fidonet user
is quietly archiving these good yarns for posterity.
Sorry I can only make brief reply. Wife is in hospital 100miles north of here
and I must disappear for an indefinite absence.  Cheers...........ALEC
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