laxriter Wrote:
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> Watching
> it roll by during the runbys was fun, especially
> the tank cars and the RGS caboose!
>
> Randy in PHX

Improvements relative to 1940's:

--20 is in good mechanical shape and isn't a piece of rolling scrap threatening to drop its drivers on the track and/or blow up at any given moment
--The wood cars are fully maintained and aren't held together with bailing wire and masking tape
--The crew looks healthy as opposed to the "we're skinny because we only get paid once in a blue moon" look of many Depression-era crews

I hope you folks are having as much fun as you look like you're having. The 20's restoration was a long time coming and it's great seeing it have the chance to do what it was meant to do.

Be interesting to get a comparison sometime of how the 20 rides versus the 168 (or compared to the consolidations) if anyone's had a chance to operate 'em all. Historic railroads cared about that sort of thing moreso than tourist operations tend to.