She might be "sightseer," a pure voyeur, or "ghost," a felt but invisible presence.
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BE A SAVVY SIGHTSEER Climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge is a mainstay tourist activity, but it costs more than $120 and takes hours.
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When I was 50, after one parent had died and the other had moved, I returned to Tenafly for three days as a kind of sightseer.
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Mexico Dispatch ROSARITO, Mexico — On a forlorn beach, a long line of riderless horses shuffled along, their wrangler unable to spot a single sightseer who might want to hop on.
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Even if you understand and sympathize with obsessive documentary travel, summer can make anyone feel as uncharitable as Percy felt toward that poor sightseer at the lip of the Grand Canyon.
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This is reaffirmed, post-decadence, when I stop in the sightseer lounge and discover the rumors about the big windows are true and the next 47 hours are probably going to be a bloody treat.
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For the intrepid sightseer, a two-and-a-half-hour drive takes you to the popular Poás volcano (still active), where you can ascend nearly 9,000 feet by car and gaze down into a gurgling, steaming, sulfurous, molten crater.
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When I traveled to Guam in 2014, while researching a book about the U.S. territories, the woman selling tickets at the Latte Stone of Freedom assumed I was from the nearest military base, and was visibly surprised to learn that I was a sightseer from the States.
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He has also installed an itty bitty bonfire on top of a fire alarm, a teeny weenie yacht sinking into a puddle, a very small camel trudging across a very small sand dune, a petite sightseer atop a surveillance camera, and a Hot Wheels Lamborghini splattered with life-sized bird poop.
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Between the sleeper cars and the sightseer lounge (a magical place with oversized windows and swivel chairs that are never not occupied once you pass Denver), the service allots a carriage dedicated exclusively to dining: eight tables accessorized with blue leather seating for 32 hungry passengers at a time, helmed on my 153-hour trip by a king-like figure named Gary.
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The cars were built with an electric piano in the lower level, which has since been removed. In addition to the Sightseer lounges, Amtrak converted five Superliner I dining cars to lounge cars in 1998 for use on the Auto Train, an automobile-carrying overnight train between Virginia and Florida. These cars may be distinguished from the Sightseer lounges by their conventional windows.
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Later the whistle was transferred to another Anderson boat, the Sightseer, which became one of the last steamboats of the Mosquito Fleet to operate on Puget Sound.
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The Sightseer served as the second Elliott Bay Water Taxi. The Elliott Bay Water Taxi started service in 1997 as a pilot project to give commuters an alternative to the congested West Seattle Bridge and Highway 99. The Water Taxi was operated by King County Metro and only ran between April and October. King County leased the M/V Admiral Pete from Kitsap Harbor Tours (via Argosy Cruises) and later the M/V Sightseer from Argosy Cruises to operate the service.
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Roger Laell Minick (born July 13, 1944) is an American photographer widely known for his series of photographs documenting tourists in the National Parks of the United States. The series, called "Sightseer", has been published in numerous books and widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe. In addition to the "Sightseer" series, Minick has worked on numerous other photo projects over the years. His two best known books are Delta West (1969) and Hills of Home (1975), both published by Scrimshaw Press.
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Works, vol. 10, p. 227. Hazlitt, in the words of Ralph Wardle, "never stopped observing and comparing. He was an unabashed sightseer who wanted to take in everything available, and he could recreate vividly all he saw".
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A tiny bedroom with bed, a mirror, and numerous storage areas occupied the rear end of the motorhome. Over the years, floorplans varied from the luxury 27 foot "Dodge Mahal" in the early 1970s which offered posh comfort intended for just two, to family floor plans sleeping up to ten. The "SightSeer" economy motorhome was a basic, stripped down and shorter model directed at the economy market typified by Winnebago. Sightseer was a conventional box-style motorhome that did not share the distinctive flowing aerodynamic Travco signature body style.
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She was awarded a residency at Yaddo in 2011. Wilson's short stories have been published in AGNI,Wilson, Sari. "The Sightseer," AGNI 60 (Oct. 2004). Third Coast, and Slice, among others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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Minick's best known photo project, the “Sightseer” series, in which he photographed tourists visiting the National Parks and Monuments in the United States, began in 1979. While the first few images for this project were in black and white, the project soon became Minick's first experience working in color. The "Sightseer" images were first exhibited at the Grapestake Gallery in San Francisco in 1981 and were reviewed by Thomas Albright in the San Francisco Chronicle. Images from this series were also included in the hardcover book and major traveling exhibition American Photographers and the National Parks, sponsored by the National Parks Foundation.
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The Real New York: A Guide for the Adventurous Shopper, the Exploratory Eater and the Know-it-all Sightseer who Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1932. (pg. 140)Hemp, William H. New York Enclaves. New York: Clarkson M. Potter, 1975. (pg.
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Anderson's estate was valued at $92,316. The largest asset was stock in Puget Sound Navigation Company, which he obtained in 1935 in exchange for his interest in Kitsap County Transportation Company. The estate also included the two Anderson Water Tours Company ships, Mercer and Sightseer.
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The fare was $1.50 per person. Some time in 1933 or 1934, Anderson purchased Vashona from Vashon Navigation Company. In the spring of 1935, Anderson sent Vashona to the shipyard for refurbishment. She emerged as Sightseer, a purpose-built tour boat with seating for 300 passengers.
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He then asks some statues to close it for him. After one of them provides assistance, that statue decides to show the little sightseer around. Thus all the other wax characters in the area come to life and go into a celebration by singing and dancing. It is a beautiful experience.
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The German sightseer Adolf Struck in 1898 presents Konstantia as a big village with 300 houses and two panes, inhabited exclusively by. In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area and reported that the village of Gostolyubi was inhabited by about 1300 Muslims. Vasil Kanchov (1901). Кънчов, Васил. Македония.
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The Superliner I cars were the last passenger cars built by Pullman. Car types include coaches, dining cars, lounges, and sleeping cars. Most passenger spaces are on the upper level, which features a row of windows on both sides. The Sightseer Lounge observation cars have distinctive floor-to-ceiling windows on the upper level.
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Argo as Sightseer XII in 2016. Later in 1945, Argo was assigned to the First Coast Guard District and was assigned to rescue duty. Her new homeport was Rockland, Maine. In 1947 the commander of First Coast Guard District requested to place Argo in "out of commission, in reserve" status due to manpower shortages.
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The Tyrol Panorama Museum is at Bergisel in the south of the city. It is accessible on public transport using the IVB lines, Sightseer, Lines 1 and 6, as well as the Stubai Valley Railway and Stubai Valley Bus. A further enhancement is planned in the shape of another bus line for the residents on the Bergisel.
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Amtrak serves the city twice daily via the Texas Eagle, with northbound service to Chicago and southbound service to San Antonio, as well as numerous intermediate points. Through service to Los Angeles and intermediate points operates three times a week. The train carries coaches, a sleeping car, a dining car, and a Sightseer Lounge car. Reservations are required.
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The Superliner lounge cars have windows that curve over parts of the ceiling. Pullman-Standard and Bombardier each built 25 dedicated lounge cars, dubbed "Sightseer" lounges. Windows wrap upward into the ceiling, providing lateral views of scenery along the train's route. This design element was drawn from the Hi-Level lounges and the Seaboard Air Line's Sun Lounges.
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German sightseer Adolf Struck in 1898 describes Konstantia (in Moglena) as a big village with 300 houses and two panes, inhabited exclusively by Pomaks. Greek nationalist scholars and government officials frequently refer to the Pomaks as "slavicised" Greek Muslims, to give the impression that they are the descendants of Ottoman-era Greek converts to Islam like the Vallahades of Greek Macedonia.
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The new boat took over the Canal Tour. Atlanta became a reserve boat available for special holiday events, and as a back-up, until she was returned to King County in November 1937. Sightseer ran this excursion every summer for the rest of Anderson's life. In 1938 or 1939, Anderson purchased the steam yacht Mercer, which Anderson Water Tours used to run excursion trips around Mercer Island.
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In June 1942, Harrie E. Tompkins, who took over management of Anderson Water Tours after Anderson's death, made the decision to suspend the tours for the duration of World War II. In fact, Anderson Water Tours never sailed again. In 1946, Emilie Anderson sold Sightseer to Gray Line Tours. On June 23, 1946, Gray Line Tours recommenced the Canal Tour that John Anderson pioneered decades earlier.
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Only 14 FIGs were built, and all but a handful of the Roadrunners were 37-seaters. The last FitzJohns built for an American customer were five Roadrunner Sightseer variants (with roof windows) for Florida Greyhound Lines. The Muskegon factory closed in May 1958, after the last order of 54 FIDs was delivered to Mexico. Sales records exist for the 31 years 1927 through 1958.
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Eventually, it became only a brand name. Both View-Master and Tru-Vue products were manufactured into the 1960s by Sawyer's. The company is historically significant as a bridge between the stereoscopic cards of the 19th century and the View-Master reels of the mid-20th . Competitors of Tru- Vue included the American company Novelview from the 1930s and the British manufacturer Sightseer from the 1950s.
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The train uses double- decker Superliner I & II equipment, including a Sightseer Lounge car that has floor-to-ceiling windows to view the passing scenery. Baggage is placed in one of Amtrak's new Viewliner II single-level baggage cars or in designated coach- class cars. The Coast Starlight typically uses two GE P42DCs for locomotive power. Secondary locomotives that are occasionally utilized are the older GE P32-8BWHs and GE P40DCs.
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Dubbed the "Cross-Country Cafe", they were intended to reduce food service losses by replacing both a traditional dining car and the Sightseer lounge on long- distance trains. One end of the car was converted into a café area, with tables and a small serving area near the stairs to the kitchen. The other side remained dedicated to traditional diner seating, but the standard two-by-two tables were replaced by booths.
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In 1937, Beeline was one of the five remaining wooden-hulled vessels of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet, the others being Virginia V, Manitou, Sightseer and Arcadia. Line drawings of five vessels were prepared by Phillip F. Spaulding, then an apprentice to naval architect Carl J. Nordstrom. Nordstrom had a contract from the Works Progress Administration to prepare maritime records for the Historic American Register and Building Survey.Kline, Steamboat VIRGINIA V at 90.
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The company's original shipyard was at Dockton, Washington, but later expanded to other locations. The company was active from 1904 to 1974 and built many vessels. Among the earlier vessels built by the company were the wooden propeller steamers Vashon (1905), Verona (1910), Nisqually (later renamed Astorian) and Calista, both built in 1911, Florence J. (1914), F.G. Reeves, (1916), Vashona (later renamed Sightseer) (1921), and the ferry Whidby (1923).Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, at 203-216.
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These included the propeller steamers Vashon (1905), Verona (1910), Nisqually (later renamed Astorian) and Calista, both built in 1911, Florence J. (1914), F.G. Reeves, (1916), Vashona (later renamed Sightseer) (1921), and the ferry Whidby (1923).Newell, Gordon R., Ships of the Inland Sea -- The Story of the Puget Sound Steamboats, at 203-216, Binford & Mort, Portland, OR (2nd Ed. 1960) Launchings did not always go well. Florence J. rolled over and sank on the first launching attempt.
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At the same time the West Seattle route started operating with the catamaran (a sister ship of the Melissa Ann), also leased from Four Seasons Marine Services. The leased Sightseer was returned to Argosy Cruises. In March 2013, the District added a third vessel to its fleet by acquiring the that had been previously used on the failed SoundRunner ferry between Kingston and Downtown Seattle. The Spirit of Kingston is the first vessel to be owned by the ferry district.
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In 1970, its unique air-conditioned PCC car 1512, the "Silver Sightseer," was damaged by arsonists and scrapped. In 1987, cars 1053 and 766 were severely damaged in a collision. One of the worst disasters to ever befall a North American trolley museum occurred at NCTM on September 28, 2003, when one of the two carbarns at the museum's former site burned down. Eight pieces of equipment, comprising about half of the museum's operating fleet and one-third of its total collection of street cars, were destroyed.
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Captain Parker operated Virginia V carrying war workers between Poulsbo, Washington, and the Keyport Naval Torpedo Station with his wife Mary as steward and purser. After the end of World War II, the Parkers continued to operate her as an excursion vessel all around Puget Sound. In 1948 the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society (PSMHS) was formed to preserve the Northwest's marine history. As a publicity event, the PSMHS sponsored a race between Virginia V and a similar ship, Grayline Sightseer (formerly Vashona) to be held on National Maritime Day.
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The overall size of the vessel was 102 gross and 80 registered tons. The ship was named after Arcadia, Washington. Arcadia was one of only four of the once-numerous small steamships of Puget Sound that was built after 1920, the others being the Concordia, the Vashona (later known as Sightseer and Columbia Queen), and the still-extent Virginia V. The engine and boiler for Arcadia came from the dismantled steamship Sentinel, which Arcadia was intended to replace. As built, Arcadia could carry 275 passengers and 100 tons of freight.
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The second permanent Superliner train was the Desert Wind, then a day train between Los Angeles and Ogden, Utah, which gained coaches on June 30, 1980. The San Francisco Zephyr, a long-distance train on the traditional Overland Route between Chicago and San Francisco, followed on July 7, 1980; it received the first of the Sightseer lounges on January 6, 1981. Amtrak assigned Superliners to another long-distance train, the Los Angeles–Chicago Southwest Limited, in October 1980. The Southwest Limited, formerly the Super Chief, traveled the same route as the El Capitan, whose Hi-Level cars had inspired the design.
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On June 6, 2016 VIA unveiled 3 new routes with specialized buses to attract locals and visitors to San Antonio's iconic locations, parks, and hotels. The routes are 11 VIVA Culture, 40 VIVA Missions and 301 VIVA Centro. Route 11 is broken up into two branches (11A & 11B). 11A provides service to The McNay Art Museum, The Witte Museum, Brackenridge Park, The DoSeum, & The Pearl and 11B provides services to the former route of the 7 Sightseer Special that serves Alamo Stadium, Trinity University, The University of the Incarnate Word, The San Antonio Art Museum, and The San Antonio Zoo.
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Over the years a number of vessels were also built at the shipyard of John Martinolich, at Dockton on Maury Island. These included the propeller steamers Vashon (1905), Verona (1910), Nisqually (later renamed Astorian) and Calista, both built in 1911, Florence J. (1914), F.G. Reeves, (1916), Vashona (later renamed Sightseer) (1921), and the ferry Whidby (1923).Newell, Gordon R., Ships of the Inland Sea -- The Story of the Puget Sound Steamboats, at 203-216, Binford & Mort, Portland, OR (2nd Ed. 1960) Launchings did not always go well. Florence J. rolled over and sank on the first launching attempt.
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As described above, the observation car on scheduled passenger trains has largely fallen victim to increased operational costs. An outstanding exception is Via Rail's Canadian, which still operates on every triweekly trip between Toronto and Vancouver with the same dome observation-lounge cars in use on the train since 1955. On several long distance Amtrak routes outside the Northeast Corridor where most trains are equipped with Superliner cars, there are Sightseer Lounge cars. These combine extra window exposure on an upper observation level with a lounge area and dormitory facilities on lower levels of the trains, though are generally placed mid-way through the train's consist.
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The National Catholic Press in 1959 judged him "Best Columnist" for his home-life vignettes, and he was elected president of the Catholic Press Council. Under the pen-name Dick Kidson, Sherman wrote an "editorial advertisement" column in the Los Angeles Times from 1961-1967 for the upscale Farmers Market complex, a large marketplace of specialty shops in Los Angeles that since 1934 had developed into a chic sightseer destination. In 1959, the hard-working, fast-living Sherman also hosted his own nightly 60-minute Channel 9 KHJ-TV Los Angeles interview program. From 1962-64 he wrote and broadcast a daily 15-minute current affairs commentary program on KABC Radio in Southern California.
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Although Burns' paternal grandfather had been a scribe (sofer) and thus had been part of a religious Jewish family in Poland, Alexander Burns had rebelled against his upbringing. “My father,” Burns recalled, “had carried Marx's doctrine to the ultimate in his belief that 'religion was the cyanide rather than the opiate of the people.' And so I was brought up.” Burns was a self-described atheist who had “been in a synagogue but a half-dozen times as a sightseer.” Burns began using the byline “Ben Burns” (instead of his birth surname Bernstein) around 1936, because at the time he was having difficulty finding a job in the journalism field and he thought that “perhaps a non-Jewish name would change my fortunes.”Nitty Gritty, p. 63.
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While the length of the train varies, in 2020 the consist comprised a baggage car, Transition sleeper, two sleeping cars, dining car, Sightseer Lounge, one Superliner coach car with Business Class seating, and three standard coaches cars. Prior to February 2018, the Coast Starlight was unique in that it included a first-class lounge car called the "Pacific Parlour Car". The cars were Budd Hi-Level Sky Lounge cars, built in 1956 for the Santa Fe's El Capitan service. Called a "living room on rails", the Parlour car offered several amenities to first-class sleeping car passengers including wireless Internet access, a full bar, a small library with books and games, an afternoon wine tasting, and a movie theater on the lower level.
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The train operated in push mode, meaning that the locomotive was on the rear of the train and the locomotive engineer controlled operations from the control car in the front. MARC No. 286 had twenty passengers on board. Amtrak No. 29, the Capitol Limited, departed Union Station at 5:25 pm, traveling outbound/westbound towards Chicago. That day the Amtrak train consisted of two diesel locomotives, an EMD F40PHR no. 255 leading and a GE P40DC no. 811 trailing; six material handling cars; a baggage car; a Superliner transition sleeping car; two Superliner sleeping cars; a Superliner dining car; a Superliner Sightseer Lounge car; two Superliner coaches; and a Hi-Level dormitory-coach. The Capitol Limited had four crew, fourteen service personnel, and 164 passengers on board.
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In 1986, photographs from this series were included in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art traveling exhibition and hardcover book Photography in California: 1945-1980. Minick's best known image from the "Sightseer" series, “Woman at Inspiration Point, 1980”, was also included in the Oakland Museum of California 1989 exhibition Picturing California, which traveled nationally, and this same image was also featured on the cover of the catalogue for the exhibition. In the year 2000, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art also featured the same image on billboards and as banners on light posts around Los Angeles advertising their exhibition Made in California. In 1981, Minick was commissioned to photograph the newly renovated Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California, the resulting series of color photographs becoming a book titled The Oakland Paramount.
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It was struck from the Naval Register February 7, 1946. It was subsequently resold to the Circle Line of New York City and renamed Sightseer, but was later renamed Circle Line V. It served as a tour boat until 1983. In 1986, a Cincinnati local named Robert Miller purchased the ship for the low price of $7,500 and spent 10 days restoring the yacht so it could make the journey to the Midwest. After using the boat to take friends out on New York Harbor for the ceremonial relighting of the Statue of Liberty during the July 4 weekend, Miller took the boat back home via the Hudson River, the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, and the Ohio River before settling at the mouth of Taylor Creek near its confluence with the Ohio River on Miller's property in Boone County, Kentucky.
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Wardle, p. 396. Yet frequently he showed himself to be more than a mere sightseer, with the painter, critic, and philosopher in him asserting their influence in turn or at once. A splendid scene on the shore of Lake Geneva, for example, viewed with the eye of both painter and art critic, inspired the following observation: "The lake shone like a broad golden mirror, reflecting the thousand dyes of the fleecy purple clouds, while Saint Gingolph, with its clustering habitations, shewed like a dark pitchy spot by its side; and beyond the glimmering verge of the Jura ... hovered gay wreaths of clouds, fair, lovely, visionary, that seemed not of this world....No person can describe the effect; but so in Claude's landscapes the evening clouds drink up the rosy light, and sink into soft repose!"Works, vol.
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These plans never came to fruition, and in 2007, 2100 was moved to Tacoma, Washington where it briefly ran on the Golden Pacific Railroad's Tacoma Sightseer trains until 2008, when it was placed in outdoor storage in Richland, Washington. In 2015, 2100 was leased to the American Steam Railroad Preservation Association and moved to the former B&O; roundhouse in Cleveland, Ohio where it is presently being restored to operating condition. 2101 as AFT 1 in Allentown, Pennsylvania 2101 was sold along with 2100 in September 1967 to Streigel Equipment & Supply of Baltimore, Maryland, and spent almost a decade in the firm's scrapyard until 1975, when it was purchased along with sister 2100 by Ross Rowland for use on his upcoming American Freedom Train, and renumbered AFT 1. Restored to operating condition in 30 days, AFT 1 pulled the American Freedom Train throughout the eastern United States before handing the train of to ex Southern Pacific 4449. In 1977, AFT 1 was renumbered 2101 and painted in the Chessie System livery for the Chessie Steam Special, an excursion train to celebrate the 150th birthday of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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