Regarding digging things out: In 2013 or so we were puttering with a framed tank car at the very end of the Chama South Yard. (Like....beyond NAPA).
The brass had been taken, so we fashioned some very nice wood bearings so it could be moved a little bit.
In front was that long string of VERY sad gons.
I can't believe it, but the RR actually fished that thing out! I wish I had been there to see that operation.
That car, and the rest of the framed tank car fleet now have real bearings, new paint and lettering, and several are getting shiny new wheels!
-Cp.