Herb Kelsey Wrote:
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> Title should be HNG instead of NNG - Honorary
> Narrow Gauge!
>
> And don't count the Reno out. NCNG 5 was a non
> working bucket of bolts pushed into the Universal
> Studios western depot by a tractor. She just got
> a new boiler installed.
>
> The Eureka was in similar if not slightly less
> aggravated than No. 11.
>
> The mere shell of the Glenbrook was rusting away
> in Carson City for decades.
>
> RGS 20 would never run again, condemned to sit out
> on monument point forever.
>
> Same for the 315, slowly coming apart in a Durango
> park. - And they rebuilt that one in a tent!
>
> As for the V&T, the 22 and 25 are running at the
> Carson City museum.
>
> This last twenty years or so have certainly proven
> that anything is possible and never say "never!"
>
> And then there's the rolling stock......
Exactly! I cannot wait to see what the Virginia & Truckee Railroad will do to the burnt-out remains of the V&T coaches that accompanied the "Reno" at Old Tucson. It is almost like we live in a golden age of rail preservation, where historically dormant pieces of equipment are being resurrected left and right.
When I was little, I never would have thought that two D&RGW K-37s (No. 491 and No. 493), let alone one, would ever return to operation after No. 497 went out of service.
Also, the sight of two IRCA 2-8-0s (No. 40 and No. 111) running side-by-side on the Georgetown Loop Railroad was something that I thought was a thing of the past until recently.
If I have learned one thing about this preservation movement so far, almost any locomotive or rolling stock can be restored or rebuilt. It takes the right people, technical skills and know-how, amount of money, places, resources, and operational goals to get things done.
