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20.9.06

BUCCANEERS ON THE KISH. Yar, and supersize me Fish'n-More!
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"Cold Spring Shops" was the name of the primary repair and car building facility of The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company ... builders of trolley dining cars and the Christmas parade train ... perhaps I can be that creative too.

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