Georgetown Loop RR 2023
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an unusual cart, non original to the mine.
oddly, it has a crude g scale loop and 2 mine portals
Noteworthy, to me in my many decades of riding trains, a woman brakeman.
GLRR no longer has the 3 truck Westside shay.
it had 3 rod locos, none indigenous to the historic rr, and 4-5 diesels.
oddly, it has a crude g scale loop and 2 mine portals
Noteworthy, to me in my many decades of riding trains, a woman brakeman.
GLRR no longer has the 3 truck Westside shay.
it had 3 rod locos, none indigenous to the historic rr, and 4-5 diesels.
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Did the GL in 1994 on a mega tour including lots of Colorado Railways and Museums. Before current operators of the GT, loco was a Shay back then but not such interesting brakesperson.
Alas, my true, dog-like nature has not yet fully faded with age. And is transparent, it seems, from my photos.....
nonetheless, a splendid day out
i do not own the B-Mann Connie, so i am not as familiar with its details as if i did own one, and what recollection i have is from decades ago (I passed on the Connie at the time, had a bad taste from my original 36t Shay with it original plastic trucks. ANd , it seems the Connie had gear issues?? and some issue re the footplate and the tender -loco distance and accommodating curves??? it is otherwise a very appealing , if non-Colorado NG loco. My later manufactured B-Mann locos are superb, but stupidly delicate).
The GRR Baldwin, #40, is similar. I believe it is a standard gauge loco regauged to 3ft.
I do know that #40 came from South America, and it seems to me that the Connie was also based on a Central/South American Baldwin. The Connie's smoke box center mount headlight was common on Mexican NG steam, and apparently, elsewhere south of the border too.
nonetheless, a splendid day out
i do not own the B-Mann Connie, so i am not as familiar with its details as if i did own one, and what recollection i have is from decades ago (I passed on the Connie at the time, had a bad taste from my original 36t Shay with it original plastic trucks. ANd , it seems the Connie had gear issues?? and some issue re the footplate and the tender -loco distance and accommodating curves??? it is otherwise a very appealing , if non-Colorado NG loco. My later manufactured B-Mann locos are superb, but stupidly delicate).
The GRR Baldwin, #40, is similar. I believe it is a standard gauge loco regauged to 3ft.
I do know that #40 came from South America, and it seems to me that the Connie was also based on a Central/South American Baldwin. The Connie's smoke box center mount headlight was common on Mexican NG steam, and apparently, elsewhere south of the border too.
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Haha! I wondered who would make this kind of remark firstIt could be argued that you were more interested in someone else's outside frame than the Baldwin
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Never fear, fools rush in where angels fear to treadHaha! I wondered who would make this kind of remark first
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Especially when SWMBO is aroundNever fear, fools rush in where angels fear to tread