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- From: wes@uf.msc.edu (Wes Barris)
- Subject: Re: CSRM Inside Track news
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.181436.12705@uc.msc.edu>
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- Organization: AHPCRC, Minnesota Supercomputer Center
- References: <pfnbms@Unify.Com> <1992Dec22.081134.19611@pbs.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:14:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.081134.19611@pbs.org>, btiffany@pbs.org writes:
- |> 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
-
- According to my information, the engine currently displayed at the
- fairgrounds in Placerville is #4, a 2 truck narrow gauge Shay.
-
- Of course, a lot could happen in 10 years. Perhaps 1771 was in Placerville
- 10 years ago -- I don't know its history.
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