Re: state funding

D&RGW490 Wrote:
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> thats interesting i didn't know that 463 was
> restored with the same funding or that it costed
> that much to restore it. do you think that it
> would cost around the same amount to restore
> either 497 or 492

I think John Bush would be the person to give you an answer to this question. Costs will depend on how the rebuild is done, when John did his evaluation 10 years ago he described using the #497 running gear with the boiler from #492. You can read about it in the thread here:


John Bush 2004 C&TS locomotive evaluation



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/2014 09:53PM by rod.