Re: SVRY 250-251

A two day British run fan trip was operated during February between Gualan and Guatemala City . We were towed the 120 miles there on a freight train a couple of days before the trip. Locomotive was in steam from Guatemala City outbound [saved oil by towing]. Trip went good except ran out of water 5 miles from Guatemala City .Caused by too may runbys and a injector that spilled water.Other injector had gone BO about 20 miles from Guatemala City .Much was accomplished on locomtoive before trip include a few new tubes, new firebrick, rebuilt blowdowns and other inspections and minor repairs. RDC hires Federico Renalez from Columba to come up and work with the locals for about a month before each trip. Myself and Al Di Paolo from CSRM volunteered for about a week helping getting locomotive ready and were the firemen for the entire trip. The locomotive steams very well and must be forced to make Black smoke for the photo runbys. One interest thng about fireing this oilburner is that when its is overfired it "bumps" or drums badly. I wounder it it was set up that way to worn the fireman of excessive fireing.
As a note Fruga scraped a couple of hundred freight cars between 2006 and 2007 A lot of good Narrow gauge trucks went to scrap.
If anyone is looking for narrow gauge equipment this might be a source.