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Brett Wiebold

January 23, 2022 09:47AM

Registered: 6 years ago
Posts: 152

Actually quite a bit... We keep flags, spanner wrenches for adjusting air pump packing, specialty tools that are used only on 491 as opposed to the other engines (mostly homemade jigs), and the locomotive's "blankie" that gets hung on the handrail at the end of every ops day.

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D&RGW 491 running at CRRM tomorrow Jan 22nd 2022.	Jeff Taylor	January 21, 2022 07:29PM
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Re: D&RGW 491 running at CRRM tomorrow Jan 22nd 2022.	John K	January 23, 2022 06:18AM
Front toolbox	timtrain488	January 23, 2022 08:11AM
Re: Front toolbox	Brett Wiebold	January 23, 2022 09:47AM

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