Jerry474 Wrote:
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> Last winter, Durango and the Animas River area
> received a 25 year record snow fall. The D&S ran
> six snowplow-flanger trains (a record for the
> D&S). So far we have not receive significant
> snowfall, but the forecast for the weekend calls
> for a lot of snow. The D&S has Flanger OF and
> Caboose 0540 ready to go. Number 493 has flanger
> controls installed in the cab, so perhaps before
> the winter is over, we will see a K-37 powered
> flanger train for the first time since the 1960s.
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Well we can never say never, let's hope Mom Nature plays along and presents a situation where 493 can pull a Flanger train. It would be fun to see you try and top your amazing photos and footage from last year Jerry!
William
aka drgwk37