Re: 319 & 345

i little bit of the 345 lives on today. The story is that after the engines were flat cared back to the Alamosa shops to be scrapped a foreman friend of bob Richardsons told him to look at a certain part of the scrap pile when no one was around.

during her long life and at least one roll over the 346 had lost her dome collars and was wearing a couple of mismatched ones when she finially got to the Narrow Gauge Motel. after the domes were salvaged a passing train crew yelled over," Nice job on those wooden collars that you made." Later is was allowed that they had been a midnight requisition of the scrap pile and they were made by Baldwin for sister engine.

See my review of the CRRM's new booklet on the 346 at the top of the Discussion forum list.