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Dr. John Watson: “Did you just kill my new wife?!”
Sherlock Holmes: “Of course not!”
Dr. John Watson: “How can you say that, when you just threw her off a train?!”
Sherlock Holmes: “As I said, I timed it perfectly!”
Jude Law & Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
About this image: digital photograph (Canon 300D) lightly modified in Adobe Photoshop
The following Information is from The Museum of Transportation, St. Louis:
‘# 170 – New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate Road) 1927 – Built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO), this 4-6-4 “Hudson” type locomotive was originally used in heavy passenger service until 1947 when the Nickel Plate Road converted to diesels. It went to light freight and passenger service. Altogether this locomotive traveled over 2,000,000 miles which is the equivalent to 80 trips around the world. It weighs 536,000 pounds, has 74 inch drive wheels, 25 x 26 inch cylinders and has a tractive effort of 42,000 pounds. The smoke deflectors on the front along the smokebox, often called “elephant ears”, lift the smoke over the cab and out of the faces of the crew. Donated in 1957 by the Nickel Plate Road.’
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