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CHARLIE HOPKINS

February 26, 2005 01:03PM

ED.......
NG NOTES......
A RIVETING AND TENDER STORY.
The orignal tender tank for the Dixie was rusted out in about 100 places .......So A
new all weled tank was fabricated with a oil
and water bunkers....well we used the old ladder
and sand boxes, grap irons .....A first class job
as far as I was concerned !.....Well Clark came
up with this wonderful plan !.........We would
epoxy aluminum air plane rivets heads to give
the apperance of the old tank !.....and you guys
can glue the dam things on between runs.....
Well this went on for about a few weeks........
anyway with a full tank of water and oil the steel
plates would flx and pop and exspaned with hot
bunker oil inside and the rivet heads would pop
off like shots from a gun !.......That was the
END of the historic rivets.
The hulk of the old tender was rebuilt in to
a homebuilt dump car.
CHARLIE

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Re: THE JACKRABBIT.	CHARLIE HOPKINS	February 24, 2005 10:26AM
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WSL Caboose at Roaring Camp PIC	Ed Kelley	February 24, 2005 07:52PM
Re: WSL Caboose at Roaring Camp	CHARLIE HOPKINS	February 26, 2005 01:03PM
Re: WSL Caboose at Roaring Camp	Brian Norden	February 27, 2005 01:09AM
Re: WSL Caboose at Roaring Camp	Daniel Maxwell	February 27, 2005 06:13AM
Re: WSL Caboose at Roaring Camp	Brian Norden	February 27, 2005 02:55PM
Re: WSL Caboose at Roaring Camp	Ted Miles	February 28, 2005 10:05AM
Re: WSL Caboose at OERM and other stuff	Brian Norden	February 28, 2005 01:16PM
Re: WSL Caboose at OERM and other stuff	Daniel Maxwell	February 28, 2005 03:33PM
Re: WSL Caboose at OERM and other stuff	Brian Norden	February 28, 2005 06:14PM
Re: RC and RABBITS.	CHARLIE HOPKINS	February 27, 2005 02:09PM
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter

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