Re: Around the Loco Depot. A Straggler.
| March 18, 2020 07:45PM |
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Yeah Wayne, just one. The earliest made around 1870's were really swept in design and much thinner than what we finished up with, those were cast steel and weighed 50kg. Made a great bomb off a really high bridge. 
p.s. The NZGR Rulebook required all Hooks to face South.
p.s. The NZGR Rulebook required all Hooks to face South.
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Chris Walker | March 18, 2020 02:35PM |
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Wayne Hoskin | March 18, 2020 11:25PM |
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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