Re: Double heading on the RGS recreation
| September 17, 2017 03:27PM |
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Chris Walker Wrote:
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> trainrider47 Wrote:
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> > Using a photo of D&RGW C-18 #319 double heading
> > with K-27 #461 as an inspiration, ........so we
> > went with 315 as a what if. Just because there
> > isn't a photo doesn't mean it didn't happen.
> >
> > Michael Allen
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> According to the #315 Bible, she was in Montrose
> worn out, then hauled to Ala via Gunnison for
> rebuilding and then sent to Durango to be used as
> the Shunter with the footboards in place of the
> cow catcher, in the year of '41.
Yeah well..
When she got to Durango they couldn't figure out what a shunter was so in the interim she was lent to the RGS. Once they translated shunter to switcher they brought her back.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/2017 03:29PM by Rich Murray.
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> trainrider47 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Using a photo of D&RGW C-18 #319 double heading
> > with K-27 #461 as an inspiration, ........so we
> > went with 315 as a what if. Just because there
> > isn't a photo doesn't mean it didn't happen.
> >
> > Michael Allen
>
> According to the #315 Bible, she was in Montrose
> worn out, then hauled to Ala via Gunnison for
> rebuilding and then sent to Durango to be used as
> the Shunter with the footboards in place of the
> cow catcher, in the year of '41.
Yeah well..
When she got to Durango they couldn't figure out what a shunter was so in the interim she was lent to the RGS. Once they translated shunter to switcher they brought her back.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/2017 03:29PM by Rich Murray.
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