Re: RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN 42

Kelly Anderson Wrote:
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> John C Wrote:
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> > Don’t know what it would take but the firebox
> > around the mud ring has some weird patch job
> due
> > to clearance with the rear driver, if you’re
> > ever looking at it in the museum.
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> If you mean the home made offset in the side sheet
> to give the rear driver more clearance, that's
> very common on those old soaks. #20 has that as
> well. I forget if #346 does. Since it's in a
> flat, stayed surface, it isn't too difficult to
> make the calculations work out, but they sure have
> a Rube Goldburg look to them.

Yup very common. 346 has it on one side. 41 had them on both sides, the D&S removed them. 340 has them.

Jeff Taylor
CRRM curator of equipment and rolling stock.