Re: C&S Coal Gates

Posted by Mike Trent on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Coal-Gates-tp19490p19498.html

It was both a good and ironic move. After all I did to try to make #9 right, you come up with that picture that shows that particular gate substitutes for the missing upper 2X6. I've been thinking about that this afternoon, though, and have taken note that the models were made using photos and measurements of all kinds of details of #9. So on display in South Dakota, the brackets were all in proper place. so the unusual gate on #9 would have been temporary. But it's a great detail and part of the story. I doubt #74's missing bracket was ever replaced, though. None of the brackets are there today. The RGS would have taken all of that stuff off when they put in new steel coal doors in Ridgway.