Re: 9 in Keystone

Not to mention the fact that the bell was "lost" (although I have a photo which I took about ten years prior which shows it). The fact that he torched the bell hanger (a special casting because the throttle went through it), the throttle rod was torched as well as the injectors and check valves.
He spent a lot of money all right... on Acetyelene and Oxygen, making sure that NOBODY could use it if he couldn't have it. But what do you expect froma guy who ordered his employees to take a chain saw to a CB&Q wooden caboose because he wanted to show who was boss...
But don't ask me, ask Bob Wright, he used to work for him. I just got my stories from the late Don Ringstad, who was also a Black Hills Central employee.
Rick Steele