Re: Tommy (?) The Tube-Roller on the C&TS - Jan. '73

Earl Wrote:
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> It was probably 487 is the shots. 487 did not go
> into service until 1973.   The overly optimistic
> management decided to strip and reflue 487 and
> 488 at the same time (so it might be 488).  After
> stripping down both engines, reality set in and
> only 487 was put back together.   488 sat in a
> dismantled state until 1978 when she was put
> back together for the 1979 season.
>
> Back then, all the work was done in the old engine
> house.  Even with two stoves glowing red, it must
> have been frigid in that drafty old building.


Thanks, Earl -

Some of my pics from 1972 show a freshly painted and lettered #487, so I thought maybe she had been used that year along with #483 and #484 - Mea Culpa.   The roll from which the above were scanned also includes a shot of the side of a cab that appears to have been sandblasted, and there's a very faint top of an oval of lighter color that would be the upper part of a numeral '8' - not a '7'.  OTOH, if both were in the shop at the same time there's no way of knowing which of the two is in my shots above - except that it looks like tubes are being re-installed, so it's more likely #487 if work on #488 had already been stopped by mid-January, 1973.   IIRC, it was Rich Braden who got me into the shop, so maybe he remembers ...

- Roosso