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For today:  "In honor of yesterday's Kentucky Derby .... It's on to the Preakness at Pimlico in Baltimore!"  Today I roll the hands of time back to 1950 when BL2s were relatively new, and race horses traveled by passenger train in special cars designed to carry race horses.  Well, I couldn't afford a model horse car ( Sunset models made some. ) so I improvised and just used a MTH Premier WM baggage car which is close enough to create these scenes.  

The engine crew of Western Maryland's new BL2 salutes the winner!  Word is that engineer Willy Doppler won $2,000 betting on the Derby winner yesterday.   That's a tidy little sum that makes a lot of cents in 1950 dollars.  Conductor Clem Coogle lost his shirt at the track yesterday.  He will have a lot of splainin to do when the Mrs. finds out! LOL!    Btw -Middleground was the winner of the 1950 Derby. IMG_8900

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Middlegound's trainer, in blue,  whispers " Win the Preakness and I make alot of money" as the owner in white hat looks on while puffing on his pipe.  IMG_8859

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