"The last day we worked on ex-Westside #7 .Like other Westside engines it was a beat-up tired old 'hammer'."
With all due respect Mr. Coker, the rest of the operational West Side Locomotives are in far better condition than the #7 at RC. And former Heisler # 3 is running today not because of your good friend Mr. Bush, but because of the superior talents of Tom Shreve and Phil Reader. I don't mean to be a "Bush Basher" but the facts need to be known and are probably better expressed in another forum.
Nuff said...