C&Sng 1953 in the Narrow Gauge News

[Kurt Maechner]

Here is the next batch of C&S related info in Bob Richardson's Narrow Gauge News from the year 1953.

Highlights in this year:
Vandalism on the Palisades
Mac Poor leads a hike to the Alpine Tunnel
Bridge "collapse" on the Baldwin branch
Donation of C&S 75's builder's plate
C&S stock and box cars lost and saved



Enjoy,
Kurt

[Kurt Maechner]

Does anyone know the whereabouts of the C&S 75 builder's plate that Mac Poor loaned to the CRRM back in '53?  

[Robert McFarland]

What are the facts behind the story of the "clean-up"at the Paalisades?

[Kurt Maechner]

I'd like to know the answer to that as well.  The text on my blog post is the entire segment from the Narrow Gauge News.  Bob Richardson likes to use a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor occasionally, as is evidenced in this example, so it's hard to tell what the real deal was.  

[Todd Hackett]

Kurt Maechner wrote

Does anyone know the whereabouts of the C&S 75 builder's plate that Mac Poor loaned to the CRRM back in '53?

I talked to a dealer at a show many years ago (probably late '80s) who said it was in the collection of a very private person in the northwest (Washington or Oregon) who wasn't very approachable and didn't sell plates once he bought them. I don't know who it was or if they are still living.