Re: East broad top question

lbiemiller Wrote:
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> The local lore is that No. 16 was in the shops for
> an overhaul shortly before common-carrier
> operations ended. So theoretically she could be in
> good shape, at least as far as running gear goes.

That's what the stories say, but her badly cupped driver tires tend to indicate otherwise.

> No. 18 suffered some sort of mechanical problem
> right before the end that led to No. 17's pulling
> the final narrow-gauge trains, but what that
> problem was no one seems to know exactly.

Have heard cracked piston and broken rod. Neither appear to be true. The other version is that the engineer on the last run wanted to run #18 and so said there was something wrong with #17.

>
> -- Lawrence