ARGH!
Let's just ponder a second and see if there's any kind of trend going on here ...
(hint = we can sure take them apart, but going back together takes a lot of time, energy, and money)
Locomotives in pieces at the moment (and you all determine how long they've been apart and when they'll go back together)
#7 - (NM Shay) Hesston
#9 - CHS
#44 - Georgetown Loop
#69 - WP&Y
#74 (30) - Boulder
#169 - Alamosa
#223 - Salt Lake City
#315 - Durango
#318 - CRRM
#346 - CRRM
#464 - Huckleberry
(misc. list, C&TS)
(misc. list, D&S)
Point is - WHY DO WE NEED TO TAKE ANOTHER LOCOMOTIVE APART! They get apart and stay apart for a lot longer than expected. Some stay apart so long that they are risking remaining apart. This is going to become the "Humpty Dumpty Locomotive Syndrome". Our generation will be to blame for scattering parts of historic narrow gauge locomotives if we don't button up what we have before taking apart more and more and more locomotives.
duh - duh - duh, CHS. You CHS dingbats still haven't listened. #60 is underpowered, overaged, wrongfueled, and not suited for daily operation for the Georgetown Loop. But, CHS, you're all ready to take her apart before you've realized if you can get #9 going. Again - restore # 9 and # 60, but not for the puropose of hauling 115,000 people per year.
Even more stupid, CHS has an operator that could work. They're already here = GLR, Inc. CHS needs to get off their high horse and quit wasting money - state education money. How much time and money will the citizens of Colorado allow CHS to misappropriate and waste before this outrageous lunacy is brought to a grinding stop?