Re: NNG: 1744 Over The Hill

Good job guys!
I remember some of the FWWR people thought 1744 would be a better engine than 2248 for some reason. Is 1744 superheated?
Here are a few notes I found the other day, if you don’t have them on file already, from the Tarantula Steam Train’s old “Track Bulletin” from Dec. 13, 1989, Dec. 1, 1990, and June 1991.
Some sort of Documentation is on file at the California State Railroad Museum. The locomotive last ran on Heber Creeper in 1989. It had recently been featured in the “Mexico episodes” of the soap opera “Santa Barbara.” During November 1990, the locomotive was loaded onto a 100 ton Southern Pacific flat car in Ogden, UT, for shipment to Fort Worth. The move made national AP news. The overhaul must have been suspended in the summer of 1991 because the June 1991 issue of the “Track Bulletin” says there was optimism of a steam double header to points in Fort Worth or to Grandbury.
Also, there is a story of surplus WWII water tank spout kits sent with 1744 to Fort Worth, purchased from an outfit in Utah.