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hunter

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6. I can't remember if that was one of the engines I climbed on as a kid...

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #5)

Fri May 27, 2016, 01:58 PM

May 2016

... but our family visited the fairgrounds often enough.

My children got to climb on dangerous steam engines as little kids, but now it's considered too dangerous.

The engine we visited most often was in a local park. It's been moved to a railroad museum.

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