Re: K-27's rebuilds

Wade Hall Wrote:
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> The latter day (and soon to repeat) experience of
> the C&TS with the 463 indicates that the
> superheated K-27's were, in fact, pretty darned
> good locomotives. The reason that all of them
> were not superheated is, as others have stated,
> simply a matter that the D&RGW had neither the
> need for them nor the money to upgrade them. It's
> a pity that the 7 K-28's are gone, but there is no
> question that they were economically surplus to
> the D&RGW in 1942 and the need for them in Alaska
> was real. No queston that the K-28's were (and
> are) dandy locomotives.
>

Didnt I read somewhere that the K27 rarely got used in Alaska. When they were returned 472 made it to Ogden,UT where the decision was made to scrap her. The rest were scrapped when they reached Seattle. Seams like i remember something about mold or mildew or something in the boilers also.