o anderson Wrote:
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> To help the original poster with the question
> about what happened to what at Harrah's, I did my
> best to compile a short roster. I figure there
> were 12 pieces of equipment there, with 11 SPNG
> cars and the E-N locomotive. I wonder if there
> were additional tracks, besides the one long track
> that remains.
The only track seen in the Google aerial views is the track (approx. 150 feet long) that extended out of the engine house that held E-N #7. The parking lot for Harrah's automotive collection was southwest of the PFE ice plant.where the newer light-industrial buildings are located. The visitor entrance was through the southwest corner area of the ice plant building. Along the east edge of the parking lot was another track that ran north-south behind a fence. This track held the passenger cars and the freight cars. Also behind the fence was rail and ties.
> If I have errors or omissions in this roster,
> please let me know so I can update it. I wonder if
> there are any existing of the Carter Brothers
> drawings of the passenger combination car that
> became caboose 467. You never know if someone is
> so ambitious as to tackle a rebuild. It would be
> starting with a few more parts than on the E&P
> Elsa!
The passenger car trucks from the 467 are now under the restored caboose #2 body now relocated to the Babcock property near Fallbrook. This is why the photo of the 467 frame is setting on freight car trucks. Never heard of any drawings of the combine. There are railfan drawings of the 467.
> I had heard that most of the SPNG cars at
> Silverwood were in outdoor storage and in decay.
> Is there any likelihood that these can be saved
> for restoration?
When I was there in the late 1980s or early 1990s, the boxcars were setting on a siding from the loop track that the train operated on. Inside storage for the locomotives, the passenger cars that came from --I thing -- down in Texas along with a Crown 4-4-0. The SP combo #8 was under a roof, but not enclosed; the people up there at Athol expressed an interest in building their own special passenger car based upon the framing used within the #8.
Restoration of the boxcars? Well, like any other restoration it would need people, an organization, money, and obtaining the equipment.
Brian Norden
