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echo: coffee_klatsch
to: TOM WALKER
from: JOHNJWILSON
date: 2008-05-08 10:55:32
subject: Re: Two Trains . 1.01

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                  and was originally sent by TOM WALKER

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JO>-> JO>-> J> at 1 Pm Train #1 slows to 30 Miles per hour.
JO>-> JO>-> J> Six hours later, how much do they weigh?
JO>-> JO>->
JO>-> JO>-> Nobody can answer this question...
JO>->
JO>-> JO>Well, I said there was a clue; here it is: One of the trains is a
JO>diesel.
JO>->
JO>->
JO>-> Insuffecent Information. It could be anything between a 40 Ton
Switcher
JO>-> to more than 125 Ton for a main line engine.

update o nmy Above statement. the Latest and greatest i nrailroad Diesel
engines had a 5000 Horsepoer Engine and weighs 220 Tons!!
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I remember as a boy (several hundred years ago)We spent a summer In Gallip,
N. Mex., and every Thursday we drove to the train station, to watch the
Diesel come in. Impressive! The wonder thing of the age! :-)

Oh and your update changed the puzzle _entirely_. The Switcher was painted
BLUE.
Cheers!
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