Re: White Pass & Yukon steam restoration progress
| July 21, 2017 06:57PM |
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michael Wrote:
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> So, is it feasible to get a locomotive out of the
> river and restore it? It seems like the boiler
> would be so rotted that you should just go ahead
> and build a whole new loco.
Piece of piss to the Kiwi's
see the story of K 88. Buried in 1926, dug up in '74, returned to steam in '75, original boiler condemned in '87, new boilered in 2002.
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> So, is it feasible to get a locomotive out of the
> river and restore it? It seems like the boiler
> would be so rotted that you should just go ahead
> and build a whole new loco.
Piece of piss to the Kiwi's
see the story of K 88. Buried in 1926, dug up in '74, returned to steam in '75, original boiler condemned in '87, new boilered in 2002.
[www.whitebusfamily.co.nz]
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