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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!pbs.org!btiffany
- From: btiffany@pbs.org
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: CSRM Inside Track news
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.081134.19611@pbs.org>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 08:11:34 EST
- References: <pfnbms@Unify.Com>
- Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA
- Lines: 14
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- In article <pfnbms@Unify.Com>, raveling@Unify.com (Paul Raveling) writes:
- >
- > News excerpted from the California State Railroad Museum's
- > internal newsletter, the CSRM Inside Track, follows.
- > [...]
- > SP has declined to move our replacement tender for 2-6-0 No. 1771
- > down from Dunsmuir...the air brakes were last serviced 16 years
- > ago! Hopefully, we can truck it down late this week.
-
- Isn't the 1771 the engine displayed at Placerville? I remember seeing an
- engine there in 1970, and again in 1982 (in poorer shape than before), and
- the number 1771 rings a bell.
-
- -- Bruce Tiffany
-