Re: 346 and 1/2 flanges

Casey Akin Wrote:
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> I am unsure if you mean the C&S did this, or not.
> photographic evidence shows no flanges on the 346
> in the late 30's and very early 40's. But in the
> mid 40's she had flanges well after her stent on
> the C&S...

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I'm quoting Bob Richardson in a book published by CRRM in the 1970's as listing the half-flanges as being amoung the work C&S did on 346 after her accident in '36. I don't know his source but from all I've ever seen he was a stickler for accuracy so I assume he had one.
Also, given how little 346 was used after coming back and given that D&RG(W)/RGS 2-8-0's all had blind intermediate drivers, I really can't see either D&RGW or RGS doing this in the 1940's. Why would they?
hank
ps I also tend to be more than a little bit of a doubting Thomas as to photographic evidence. Much interpretation involved, not to mention often shaky dating of pics...