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Jeff Taylor

April 07, 2011 12:13AM

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Kelly nice work. You could be right about the RGS turning the Tires, as crazy as it sounds. Or could it have been for use on the Montezuma Lumber CO track's?

According to the CRRM book Loco 346, rebirth for the 21st century
"by the beginning of 1944, No 346 was showing signs of wear and tear. Rio Grande Southern anticipated that the loco would soon need new rod brass, some shoe and wedge work, and the driver box lateral taken up. But 346 kept right on working, and RGS reports for April showed that ran a total of 1,056 miles. of which 840 were in freight service and the remaining 216 were in helper duty. The engine was out of work in August and September and received new flues on October 17, 1944. The running gear was attended to at the same time. In November, the 346 was back in operation on the RGS.

After reading this, I guess I should rethink what I said in my other post. While it would make more sense to properly repair the lateral problems, the RGS might have seen it being cheaper to just turn the tires and give 2 and 3 a small flange to keep them in line.(taking material off tires is cheaper that buying brass for wear plates, and paying a welder to weld on the frame)

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About Those Half flanges on #346	Kelly Anderson	April 06, 2011 07:43PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	rdamurphy	April 06, 2011 09:03PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Will Gant	April 06, 2011 11:22PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Jeff Taylor	April 06, 2011 11:40PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Jeff Taylor	April 07, 2011 12:13AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Everett Lueck	April 07, 2011 06:39AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Dave Bates	April 07, 2011 07:05AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	HighCommander	April 07, 2011 09:21AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Everett Lueck	April 07, 2011 09:34AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	HighCommander	April 07, 2011 09:28AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	HighCommander	April 07, 2011 09:28AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Russo Loco	April 07, 2011 06:34PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	HighCommander	April 07, 2011 07:29PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	HighCommander	April 07, 2011 09:28AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Dirk Ramsey	April 10, 2011 04:04AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	HighCommander	April 10, 2011 04:02PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Dirk Ramsey	April 10, 2011 08:14PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	South Park	April 11, 2011 05:42AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	tomc	April 11, 2011 06:35AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	HighCommander	April 11, 2011 09:28AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	gbrewer	April 11, 2011 10:08AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	tomc	April 11, 2011 10:50AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Linn W. Moedinger	April 11, 2011 02:30PM
About full flanges on C class locos.	davegrandt	April 12, 2011 09:14AM
Re: About full flanges on C class locos.	davegrandt	April 12, 2011 12:00PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Kelly Anderson	April 11, 2011 07:53PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	chris ahrens	April 12, 2011 08:35PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Jeff Taylor	April 12, 2011 10:40PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	South Park	April 13, 2011 01:17AM
last C-19 shopped?	hank	April 13, 2011 10:49AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Kelly Anderson	April 13, 2011 07:01AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	HighCommander	April 13, 2011 10:27AM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	chris ahrens	April 13, 2011 02:13PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Robert Herronen	April 13, 2011 02:37PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	bonefish	April 13, 2011 02:53PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	chris ahrens	April 13, 2011 06:27PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Jeff Taylor	April 13, 2011 08:04PM
Re: About Those Half flanges on #346	Kelly Anderson	April 14, 2011 06:43AM

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