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...I wouldn't have drank any water out of that water tower after they went skinny dipping in it.

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you wouldn't have had the chance to anyway. the water in the tower was used only for the cannonball's steam engine.

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Besides, they didn't go skinnydipping--they always wore rather conservative swimsuits. Plus, the water quality problem would be the dog more than the girls. But swum-in water makes just as good steam as clean water.

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That view of the girls in the water tank is a good example of the visual art of suggestion. They are completely bare from the rim up, and that makes it easy to jump to the conclusion that in a playful moment they decided to go skinny dipping when they thought nobody would see them.

Sometimes a little dirt in the water can temporarily stop a leak in the locomotive's boiler.

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<<<That view of the girls in the water tank is a good example of the visual art of suggestion. They are completely bare from the rim up, and that makes it easy to jump to the conclusion that in a playful moment they decided to go skinny dipping when they thought nobody would see them.

The other poster who said they weren't skinny sipping is completely wrong.

In the very first episode, right after the theme song, when the girls are coming back from the water tower, Kate tells the girls that one of these days the train will sneak by , drain out all the water, and leave them high, dry, and bare.





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<<<Besides, they didn't go skinnydipping--

yes they did. Watch the very first episode.

they always wore rather conservative swimsuits.

No they didn't. Watch the very first episode.

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I always figured that having the opening titles show them only from the bare shoulders up was meant to imply that they were indeed skinnydipping. It's just lucky they weren't doing that the first time Steve flew over!

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They were hot. Me, I'd bottle it and sell it to perverts. ;)

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