...the #18 looks about the size (I can't really tell; give or take?) of the Consolidations that the SP sent over the Mountain Line...
...no foaming intended but I did hear someone throwing around the idea of steam on the SCBT&P down to Santa Cruz from Felton...
#18 looks like a decent size for that line...but likelihood? Well; no standard gauge enclosed storage at Felton, and the NG roundhouse having all three tracks loaded, and Kahuku kept behind in a longer bay. Two steam railroads next to each other...profitability? Well...people going to the boardwalk go for that reason I suppose rather than the redwoods. Those that want steam probably go on the NG train. I have no idea how it would work out...but just a random idea when I said..."where could #18 find a new home without leaving the state?". The other things I thought of before...I can't even remember.
-Ed Kelley