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Thread #30973   Message #400484
Posted By: catspaw49
17-Feb-01 - 07:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Wreck of the Old 97
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wreck of the Old 97
Well that incorporates my verse from my previous post. I like that one, but the idea of inserting the "Never returned" business is, to me, kinda' silly. The line "never returned" in itself is easily applied to the sea, but doesn't fit a railroad application. Although the way engines and all were purchased and used back then, each with a "personality".....it still doesn't work for me. Southern did not do away with the run because of a wreck. White Star may have had other ships, two sisters to Titanic, they were to have their own schedule, not a replacement.

There is also a certain mystery to any shipwreck, its now in an alien environment, but a train wreck is right there in front of you. Not making sense? Okay..............I still don't find connecting this to the other any benefit.

Spaw