[TenTec] Rotatable Sterba

[Rick Westerman]

Hey guys, I'd like a pint of whatever it is Pete has been
drinking! (hi)

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Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Rotatable Sterba

Chuckle! I don't know anyone who has a rotatable Sterba, but
according to one story I heard, back in the 1920's an official
with the Burlington had a crew build a perfectly circular 2,000
foot diameter railroad track at the end of a wye. The track had a
pair of switches for access to the mainline.

As the Burlington's old truss rod cars were retired this guy had
them parked on his circle track. When he got almost the whole
loop filled he had 70 foot poles and 10 Kw generators set up on
four flats he had cut into the string equidistant around his race
track, and strung a rhombic from the poles. When he'd decide to
take a few days to play radio he'd take an engine crew out there
to turn his beam antenna, set up in the old caboose, and have at
it.

However, sometime during the Hoover years the Burlington board
found out about this misappropriation of property and canned the
guy. And sold all the old truss rod cars for scrap.

73  Pete Allen  AC5E






> I've got a Scout. You know of any rotatable Sterba Curtains I
could try it
> out on? <g>
>
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