Re: 12/22/12 at the Colorado RR Museum
| December 23, 2012 08:14PM |
#40 (an oil burner) was resurrected to run the Santa trains after #346 (a coal burner) caused a merry conflagration next door (major drought here). It still needs new superheater elements, firebox bricks, and other detail items. I wouldn't say it is down for the count; it just needs money that so far no one has been willing to commit.
I hear Jack Campbell used the transporter to move #191. Beam it over here, Scotty!
In reality, I don't know how it was moved; I was not on-site when it happened. A lot of stuff at the museum has been used by swinging track panels around with a large track hoe. Could have been the technique used in this case. All part of an ongoing rearrangment of the museum grounds.
Mike
I hear Jack Campbell used the transporter to move #191. Beam it over here, Scotty!
In reality, I don't know how it was moved; I was not on-site when it happened. A lot of stuff at the museum has been used by swinging track panels around with a large track hoe. Could have been the technique used in this case. All part of an ongoing rearrangment of the museum grounds.
Mike
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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