Re: Searching for Waldo - or D&RGW #318 - on the NGDF . . .

Sharrod Wrote:
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> I tried the search function for "all dates" but
> did not succeed in finding much about 318 at
> Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden.  I seem to
> recall in the 1980s it was attempted to rebuild
> this engine.  I saw it partially dismantled about
> 1982. The only thread I found was an April Fools
> message.
>
> Please share any links to prior threads, or new
> comments.


Sharrod et al -

As noted several times previously, the search engine associated with the current software running the NGDF does NOT like special characters – including numbers – AT ALL, and will hang up – or at least NOT find ANY results – if you include even one of them (a '&', '#', '3', '1', or '8', etc.) in your search string.  I presume you searched for "D&RGW #318", which would have driven the poor thing absolutely bonkers . . .

Radar Sidetrack posted a work-around search method using Google just over a year ago — see [ngdiscussion.net].

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/2019 04:23PM by Russo Loco.