Re: Nevada County Narrow Gauge Engine #5

LooseCaboose Wrote:
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> Here is a photo of the Argent #5 at the NCNGRR
> museum. The engine when they got it didn't have a
> tender so we had lent them our WSLC loading car
> and put the former studio tender shell on it plus
> the water tank. Once it was at the museum I wanted
> the loading car back so built a new tender frame
> for it and restored a pair of four wheel trucks
> that the Northern Queen had and put them under it.
> It looks much better and is functional. The
> loading car had a tendency to derail due to it
> ridged frame. John
> [attachment 40650
> 2014-10-04Argent5withnewtender.-1.JPG]

Poor little engine looks like a cartoonist caricature.

Wayne from Oz