Re: Central City Railroad & Mining Museum proposes to restore C&Sng #71 and combine #20

CVR220 Wrote:
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> All C&S narrow gauge power belongs at Como. Why?
> The roundhouse has a roof and walls. Something
> none of the engines have enjoyed for their decades
> on display, except for No. 9 in recent years.
> Whether they run again or not, they need to be
> kept out of the weather. Displayed in a building,
> you restore them once and that's it. When fire
> protection is added at the roundhouse, there will
> be no better or safer place to store and display
> C&S narrow gauge locomotives than the place they
> once called home..

Yeah that's a lovely fantasy.

Hear's the reality, it's NOT going to happen. Just try getting 74 off of Boulders hands, we've tried. Likewise CRRM is not letting go of 191. Not everything has to run. I agree 71 would be better off cleaned up and stored/displayed indoors.

Jeff Taylor
CRRM curator of equipment and rolling stock.