Rodger,
I'm going to have to agree with Dan on this one! Nevada has a claim to that engine that is as valid as any that Colorado might have. Just because Colorado might have the funds available to spend on having it restored is not a good enough reason to give it up! Besides, why do you think that the CHS has unlimited funds to restore other states locomotives?
#74 is reported to be "too far gone" for a cost effective restoration and that it will be merely a static display (if anybody has heard differently please correct me!)
#71 is still at that casino. If money talks then why not trade them another engine as a static display for the #71? It at least was able to run back in 1988 (even though I understand that considerable damage to the engine occured as a result of it.)
How about #60? THERE'S a perfect candidate if ever there was one! The point is that all of these engines were lettered for the C&S at one time. Many, if not all, may have even run over the Loop! This engine that is in Nevada, did it ever run over the Loop? F&CC, Uintah, E&N.....it has historical heritage but just not over the Loop!
Nevada has it and it IS historically accurate for where it is. Some day it will be a jewel in Nevada's crown and I will enjoy seeing it when I visit there!
Now, what was that crack about WW II artifacts in a museum in Kansas? You wouldn't by any chance be referring to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum complex located in Abilene, KS would you?
I sense a certain condescension in your comment. The library and museum complex together are one of the best of the Presidential Libraries in the nation! I would invite you to come and check it out before you dismiss it so cavalierly (assuming, of course, that this is what you are referring to.) It is one of the "jewels" in Kansas's crown and we are justifiably proud of it!
