Re: C&TS Shops - What's next, #463 then #483?
| November 16, 2007 03:32PM |
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Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Thanks, Roger -
>
> Would $4,000 even pay for a decent paint job? It
> will take at least 100 times $4,000 - probably a
> lot more - to restore #483. Of course, we don't
> need to raise all of it - just enough so that the
> balance to paid for by the C&TS is less than the
> cost to rebuild some other engine(s).
>
> We'll be lucky to see #483 up and running by the
> 50th Anniversary of the first C&TS train - in 2020
> - if any of us older curmudgeons are still around
> ...
>
> - El Curmudgeono Loco
That would be as sad thing yet it is probaly the truth.
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> Thanks, Roger -
>
> Would $4,000 even pay for a decent paint job? It
> will take at least 100 times $4,000 - probably a
> lot more - to restore #483. Of course, we don't
> need to raise all of it - just enough so that the
> balance to paid for by the C&TS is less than the
> cost to rebuild some other engine(s).
>
> We'll be lucky to see #483 up and running by the
> 50th Anniversary of the first C&TS train - in 2020
> - if any of us older curmudgeons are still around
> ...
>
> - El Curmudgeono Loco
That would be as sad thing yet it is probaly the truth.
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