John:
The K36 history will come after I have done 223 and 271. I started to write the history of the K36s back in 1973 and wanted to have it done for 75 when they would have been 50 years old. RR Museum was not interested in doing it. Years later I approached the Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette. It was too long for them. I approached the Friends of the C&TS, but they said their rotary book did not sell well and they were interested in doing anymore books. It will be in the Prospector sometime in the next two years.
The bridge that 278 sits on it an orginal. The ends were removed, but the center secton when the engine and train sits are orginal.