Re: Yes, It Really IS true!
| December 22, 2014 01:23PM |
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> Johnson Barr Wrote:
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> > IIRC, there was also a post stating
> > that an S.P. AC-9 had been found
> > in a barn
>
> James Wrote:
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> That's quite some barn!
Actually, James -
IIRC, it was an abandoned lumber mill near Susanville, CA - not Alturas - that had once been used to cut up 300' Giant Sequoias that arrived by narrow gauge railway, so it was plenty long enough. I believe the blacksmith was at one time planning to convert the AC-9 to three-foot gauge, but ran out of money after completing only the front engine.
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
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> ========================================
> > IIRC, there was also a post stating
> > that an S.P. AC-9 had been found
> > in a barn
>
> James Wrote:
========================================
> That's quite some barn!
Actually, James -
IIRC, it was an abandoned lumber mill near Susanville, CA - not Alturas - that had once been used to cut up 300' Giant Sequoias that arrived by narrow gauge railway, so it was plenty long enough. I believe the blacksmith was at one time planning to convert the AC-9 to three-foot gauge, but ran out of money after completing only the front engine.
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
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"Not All Those Who Ponder Can Think . . . "
* Only TWITS Twitter!
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