Re: #20, #315 & #318 are ALL ex-F&CC ... 
| January 31, 2009 12:23PM |
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... and all of them should be operational by 2010. I'm not familiar with the fourth ex-F&CC engine you mention, but rather doubt that it will be running in 2010.
While it's fun to dream of rebuilding this or that railroad and restoring this or that locomotive, the former is not likely to happen in 12" per foot scale - especially in this day and age, federal stimulus or no federal stimulus. But running a few trains on the C&TS with both #20 and #315 - and maybe even #318 if she's repaired and up to code by then - certainly IS within the realm of possibility, and temporarily repainting all three to F&CC livery would be frosting on the cake!
Imagine a three-engine F&CC freight - #20 & #315 leading and #318 cut in ahead of the caboose - charging uphill toward Windy Point or blasting up the middle section of The Whiplash ...
- Russo
p.s. IIRC, unlike a pair of K-36's, a #20-#315 double-header would NOT be too heavy for the Lobato and Cascade Creek trestles, n'est-ce pas?
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 02/01/2009 02:01PM by Russo Loco.
While it's fun to dream of rebuilding this or that railroad and restoring this or that locomotive, the former is not likely to happen in 12" per foot scale - especially in this day and age, federal stimulus or no federal stimulus. But running a few trains on the C&TS with both #20 and #315 - and maybe even #318 if she's repaired and up to code by then - certainly IS within the realm of possibility, and temporarily repainting all three to F&CC livery would be frosting on the cake!
Imagine a three-engine F&CC freight - #20 & #315 leading and #318 cut in ahead of the caboose - charging uphill toward Windy Point or blasting up the middle section of The Whiplash ...
- Russo
p.s. IIRC, unlike a pair of K-36's, a #20-#315 double-header would NOT be too heavy for the Lobato and Cascade Creek trestles, n'est-ce pas?
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 02/01/2009 02:01PM by Russo Loco.
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