November 25, 2000 08:38AM
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Mr. Rush:
I too would like to believe that the 2-6-6-2s still exist, or at least had enough parts to start a re-assembly. Unfortunately, most sources say they are done to the great roundhouse in the sky. In the early 1970s I discovered those engines via the Uintah book. I was a member of the PLA in the San Francisco Bay Area at that time and one of the principle members (Charles Heimindinger sp?-- I believe) returned from Guatemala with tales of what he saw. That was in 1971 or -72.
He said they were in derelict condition. More recently I was told they were cut up for scrap to buy bullets as, at that time, Guatemala was in revolution and the military needed money to finance their efforts. Why so many other RR items survived, I have no idea??? Now, that may mean that there still is an odd item here and there, and I hear a tender was saved. Although, I'll ask around when I'm down there in a few weeks, but I can't get too excited because even if someone tells me this side rod or steam dome shell is from the SV engines-- that just is not enough for me to get enthusiastic about.
After all, what we want to see is one running here in the US, on the SVRR... with visits to C&T and D&S. What a draw that would be. The only way that that is going to happen, I believe, is to have a new one built. After all, look what the British are doing. I thought we were more entreprenurial and resource abundant than our cousins across the Atlantic. Who has the plans for the Uintahs?
That's just my thoughts.
regards
pat in Phoenix
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