CPRR Wrote:
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> Hot Water Wrote:
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> > Mr. Question Man Wrote:
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> > > Can someone build one?
> >
> > Why bother, when there are quite a number of
> > working ones out there? Strasburg has one in
> their
> > shop, Tennessee Valley RR Museum has one in
> their
> > shop, and both companies do EXCELLENT contract
> > work. Thus, why waste many, many, many hundreds
> of
> > thousands of dollars trying to reinvent one?
>
> Actually Jack, I think that another one should be
> found (if possible), and located on the West
> Coast, say at Sacramento, then any wheel turning
> could be balked between the three sites. This
> would help other restorations say from Denver
> westward, so shipping costs a lowered. Just a
> thought.

Would you consider the Heber Valley Railroad far enough wast?