C&S #71 Video

[Doug Tagsold]

I stumbled across this new video on YouTube this weekend.  It is a video mainly about Harry Brunk's HOn3 layout now in the Cheyenne museum.   At 8 minutes into the video, there is a nice segment of video this person shot of C&S No 71 and combine #20 running
in Central City.  I think this is well worth the time to check out.

Doug Tagsold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt_1zhHqbrY


 

[John Greenly]

Great stuff!  Good tour of Harry Brunk's layout too.

By the way, there has been recent discussion of #71 and its ownership on another thread, and earlier in this video you will see that there are (or were?) TWO #71's in Central City-  the real one, and another one in front of a casino that is an outside frame engine from somewhere else that's got a 71 painted on it.

John

[Mike Trent]

The fake #71 is owned by the casino. And they are welcome to it.

[Jeff Ramsey]

In my pipe dream world what if we put the Mexican 71 in the pavilion in Breckenridge and the moved the 9 to Como?

[Robert McFarland]

Could 9 be repaired and run again?

[Kurt Maechner]

Hi Robert,
Jason Midyette's One Short Season book, chronicling No. 9's restoration to operation and return to display makes the case that she won't ever run again.  It's a shame (though I suppose we should never say never).  Unfortunately, she didn't have the tractive effort to pull the regular length of trains upgrade on the Loop anyway.
Kurt