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myork

January 25, 2011 06:55PM

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Ted miles Wrote:
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> Folks,
> further on the subject of NCNG #5 Tahoe; I
> heard a while back that the Nevada County Railroad
> Museum wants to build a new boiler for the
> locomotive to replace the "Hollywood" built prop
> that she currently has.

My understanding is that the boiler wasn't intended as a prop, but was of a sufficiently poor design to be effectively a prop. Similarly, they did enough other things that she'd be a very poor candidate for anything but a cosmetic restoration.

Michael

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