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IRYM reporting marks
Back in August 2006, you added the IRYM reporting marks to the Illinois Railway Museum article. The subject of this unreferenced material has come under considerable fire from certain parties recently, and is under discussion at Content noticeboard. While we both KNOW that these are IRM's reporting marks, it might be nice if you gave some input at the discusssion. Wuh Wuz  Dat  21:46, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Russian locomotive class P36 (March 14)
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Your submission at AfC Russian locomotive class P36 was accepted
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If you go back to the Shore Line Trolley Museum
If you are able to, could you take a trip to the Shore Line Trolley Museum in Conneticut? I would like to ask you to take a picture of a specific car at that museum. That car is IRT Deck Roof Hi-V car 3662. I have asked so many times for photographers to take a picture of this car, but all of them have either refused to do so or never replied back to me at all. And the reason I am looking for a picture of that car is because I would like to use it in the Deck Roof Hi-V (New York City Subway car) article. Neither Wikimedia nor Wikipedia have a picture of this car whatsoever. Therefore, I would like to ask you to take a picture of car 3662 and upload it on Wikimedia, so it can be used on the Wikipedia article. I recommend taking pictures of both the exterior and interior.

Just a heads up: it may or may not be on display, depending on where the Trolley Museum decides to hide the car. See if you can ask someone to show you the car. If not, so be it. At this point I am pretty much helpless if you cannot get a picture of the car.

Here's a picture of the car for your reference: https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?6891

--Davidng913 (talk) 12:54, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Irrroutemap.JPG


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Proposed deletion of File:Indianarailroadmap.JPG


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