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Railway changes and the blue tape went hand in hand

Railway changes and the blue tape went hand in hand

The Footplate Padre says that with the transition from steam to diesel in the late 1950s-60s, a new era for locomotive crews came into being. One of these related to the nature of keeping the train running..

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    The marriage equality debate has somehow taken our eye off another issue, that is the Christian\'s perspective on what is commonly referred to from the Scriptures as being \"unequally yoked\".

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    Should anyone read this heading without being culturally attuned to Australian Sport, they might wonder what it might mean?

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    The woman out front at the coffee station turns to the rest of us in the soup kitchen and yells, \"I just bent down behind the counter for 15 seconds. When I looked back the milk carton was gone. Someone took it.\"

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    Ever feel like God has a flair for the dramatic? Ever feel as if His methods of responding to prayers and teaching of lessons have more twists and turns than a Alfred Hitchcock movie?

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