Earl Wrote:
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> That Matisa Tamper has been a lemon ever since it
> was acquired in the 1980's. I don't think it ever
> did an honest day's work. The bad part was the
> C&TS traded two 9600-class pipe gons to the D&S
> for it. The D&S got two cars that were rebuilt
> into open cars that have made them thousands of
> dollars, the C&TS got a white elephant.....
That's a typo in the agenda, it is not the Matisa we are after, but rather the Tamper built machine. The same one that came to the museum several years ago when the C&TS track crew did some contract work on our loop.
Jeff Taylor
CRRM curator of equipment and rolling stock.