RESERVE BUYING: SAD STORY
He wanted to buy a train
Lettered for “BOSTON AND MAINE”…
All the ones
Were limited runs
He never could catch again.
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Considered as a purist,
He modeled a train for tourists…
“N” scale in fact,
He laid his track
Intentions were the demurest!
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He found two coaches on-line,
On reserve he thought it fine…
To wait and see–
Eventually–
He said, “they could be mine.”
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Meanwhile, for other things
He fancied, the register rings…
Sickness struck
And out of luck
He gave up his B & M dreams!
–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 
Reblogged this on OUR POETRY CORNER and commented:
POOR GUY…POOR TIMING AND GREED GETTING HIM AGAIN1–Jonathan Caswell, poet. 🙂
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Think, too, how many B&M cars are now branded PAN AM. What a joke!
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But very few PAN-AM passenger cars. Corporate identities change…especially after the uproar over labor rules by the “expansion” of the SPRINGFIELD TERMINAL to the whole system…remember?
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