Re: If you could rebuild extinct steam what would you pick?
Author: david vartanoff
Date: 07-28-2019 - 12:37
from stuffed and mounted, B&O 5300 and 4500 currently rusting at the B&O Museum--target date or 200th anniversary of founding of the RR
From either the Museum in Golden or the display in Cheyenne(?) a CB&Q 5600. Having been behind 5632 at 90, I want to do it again.The cab forward would be neat, and 1218 as well
From scratch? a hard call. I'd settle for all of the existing to be rehabbed and running (NYC Mohawk, Cotton Belt 819, NKP 759 (never too many Van S Berks
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