Re: Hijacked Thread...

trainrider47 Wrote:
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> Michael,
>
> What part of getting something for nothing do
> you not understand? If the C&TS can ever get
> ahead on rebuilds, one of the 490's is a better
> canddate for restoration to service. That means
> the 483 is going to sit there forever. If they had
> traded it for the 478, it might be many years be-
> fore funding was found to fix it up, but remember,
> the 463 was restored because a private individ-
> ual provided a big chunk of the funding. You never
> know what the future will bring, but the dream of a
> San Juan with a K-28 on the point just might have
> been the ticket. Instead of something for nothing,
> we still have nothing for nothing!

Amen, Mr. Allen!   As one who has strongly supported the restoration of #483 for many years, I even more strongly supported the trade.  Instead of the nothing for nothing we have now, #483 could have been running on the D&S instead of rusting resting in Chama, and someday we might have had a replica premium-fare San Juan Express running from Antonito to Chama and back every weekend.

hsuthe Wrote:
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> I think another reason why the trade didn't go
> through is because of timing. They are rebuild-
> ing 168, work rotary, and other projects. Had
> the D&S waited at least 5 more years, the out-
> come of the swap would have been different.


Maybe five years from now, the swap will rise again from the swamp.    

OTOH, if the D&S finds that a four-and-three mix works well enough, they'll have little incentive to trade a working engine for a big-bucks restoration just to improve the mix slightly to five-and-two.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender