Re: Carson & Colorado #1

Brian Norden Wrote:
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> Roosso,
>
> Well, the SP had 2-8-0 #1 that came from the
> N-C-O. The C&C had been gone as a corporate
> entity about 23 years when that locomotive arrived
> on its former line.

Good to know my mind is not COMPLETELY gone - just significantly fuzzy as to names and dates!

> But at that time railroad had another caboose #1
> (an ex-SPC car that later became caboose #400),
> 2-8-0 #1, coach #1 and derrick (hand crank style)
> #1. Coach #1 was rebuilt to combine #7 and later
> designated caboose #17 and that burned on July
> 4th, 1943, from a fire of undetermined origin . . .


Thanks, Brian -

Before the coach was rebuilt the S.P.N.G. had four aces up its sleeve.  Highly appropriate for a line with so many miles in Nevada . . .    

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