Re: Odds & Ends r.e. the C&S

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Quite a bit of C&S equipment – including the
> last surviving DSP&P Mason-Bogie, IIRC – was
> sacrificed to the WWII scrap drives.

The locomotive was back at Ames, Iowa, on the University campus when it was given to the scrap drive. A contractor had owned the locomotive after the C&S had given it to the University..

And that is not the only locomotive given to a University that went to a scrap drive. There were two -- a UP standard-gauge 4-4-0 and a narrow-gauge Sumpter (ex-UN) 2-6-0 -- at the University of Idaho that were scrapped.

At least the Star of India, the iron sailing ship that was built back in 1863 survived the scrap drives and still sails at San Diego. During the war a ship surveyor pointed out that it was iron and not steel, etc. which kept it from the scrap yard -- the surveyor did not want the ship cut up.

Too bad the locomotives did not have savers.

Brian Norden