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Les Beckman
 Post subject: RGS #42
PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:54 pm 

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Interesting photo of scrapping operations Delores, Colorado September 15, 1952:

http://www.urbaneagle.com/ngpics/winslow/rgs3.jpg

Apparently the scrapper had to remove the railroad name from 42's tender in order to use her in the scrapping of the railroad.

I should know this I guess, but I don't; did #42 survive?

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Erik Ledbetter
 Post subject: Re: RGS #42
PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:18 pm 

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Yes; owned now by D&S, currently unservicible, on display in museum section of Durango roundhouse.

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 Post subject: Re: RGS #42
PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:37 pm 

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Dolores, CO.


D(e)lores, Colorado.

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