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CharlieMcCandless

July 09, 2015 07:56AM

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The narrator of the film stated that they took the cinders from the firebox and scattered them by plane over Pike's Peak. Of course that could have been cinders from a previous trip.
It wouldn't have been hard for the 168 to be steamed up. The railroad could have even filled the 168's boiler with steam from one of the other locomotives for its brief trip. I am not saying they did this but it was possible.
The railroad did spend some money for the event, laying down a short stretch of third-rail track.

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Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	Jimmy Blouch	July 06, 2015 05:08PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	John Bush	July 06, 2015 05:17PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	bcp	July 06, 2015 06:15PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	John Bush	July 06, 2015 06:22PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	Jim McKee	July 06, 2015 06:25PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	CharlieMcCandless	July 06, 2015 07:08PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	CharlieMcCandless	July 06, 2015 07:14PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	Jim McKee	July 06, 2015 10:10PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	Paul Schmidt	July 07, 2015 05:42AM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	Bill M.	July 07, 2015 07:08AM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	CharlieMcCandless	July 07, 2015 03:54PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	weston1879	July 07, 2015 05:11PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	guymonmd	July 08, 2015 12:51PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	John Bush	July 08, 2015 01:52PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	Jimmy Blouch	July 08, 2015 10:00PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	bcp	July 08, 2015 10:14PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	Bill M.	July 08, 2015 10:56PM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	CharlieMcCandless	July 09, 2015 07:56AM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	Bill M.	July 09, 2015 10:51AM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	El Nehi	July 09, 2015 10:42AM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	CharlieMcCandless	July 09, 2015 11:54AM
Re: Engine 168 Santa Fe Branch 1936	CharlieMcCandless	July 09, 2015 12:10PM

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