by Trainlover479
Oh cosmo..... is this what you do to everyone or just me? and there wasnt anything wrong with that statement eather. Though they do alot of restorations...
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Trainlover479 wrote:Well i have to admit, that it is people like you that surely just keep bringing our hopes down, but i will never loose my determination. I know that edaville is struggling to survive, and that john love money, for the right price it can be purchased and moved out of there.And move it WHERE?
Cosmo wrote:If you're saying they have all the time in the world to go out to the Cape and look at dead engines for free, or worse, for gratis-minus-gas-minus-park admission....Bingo
Cosmo wrote:correct in your assessment that they have other, far more pressing matters to attend to.Thank you Capitain Obvious....the world is safe from sarcasm yet again....LMAO...yes, the above is what I meant. 97 Just got taken out of service, so I knew that they were getting ready for yet another 1472 and form 4.
Trainlover479 wrote:He said it would need a new boiler....Running an engine hard doesn't mean it needs a whole new boiler. This is what I am trying to get you people to understand. Does it need everything from the first corse back? The wrapper sheets and throat sheets done? We have heard that it needs a crown sheet, but that doesn't mean the barrel is bad. How many of the courses are spungy?
Reader#108 wrote: The 250 is a done deal......unless you have about a million bucks.....I'm sure that it's not a done deal....no engine is a done deal until it's cut up.
steamer69 wrote: Thank you Capitain Obvious....the world is safe from sarcasm yet again....LMAO...yes, the above is what I meant. 97 Just got taken out of service, so I knew that they were getting ready for yet another 1472 and form 4.Railroaders everywhere sleep soundly tonight.
steamer69 wrote:No, but being left out in the elements with the stack uncapped very well could.Trainlover479 wrote:He said it would need a new boiler....Running an engine hard doesn't mean it needs a whole new boiler. This is what I am trying to get you people to understand. Does it need everything from the first course back? The wrapper sheets and throat sheets done? We have heard that it needs a crown sheet, but that doesn't mean the barrel is bad. How many of the courses are spongy?
steamer69 wrote: ...plan on at least $250,000.00 for an all welded boiler of the 250 size. They don't mess around at that shop.Thank you! I was having trouble finding a dollar figure sum on the web.
steamer69 wrote: If you build it, they will come.If I only had a dollar for every time I heard THAT!
steamer69 wrote: Look at the Flagg Coal and other traveling engines.SO,... how bad off was the FC 0-4-0 BEFORE it was restored?
steamer69 wrote: If they didn't make money at it, they wouldn't do it.No, try: "If they had no source of income INDEPENDENT of the locomotive's operation, they COULDN'T do it.
steamer69 wrote: There are quite a few engines that travel around to different places and properties. It's not hard to do.Look at the difference in size between the FC 0-4-0 saddletanker and WRR 250. Just LOOK!
steamer69 wrote: Cosmo, the issues at the B&ML had nothing to do with the engine, and everything to do with one of your CSRX buddies forgetting to pay the lease payment. There was nothing wrong with that trainset. Hence the reason it was purchased by Great Smokey Mountain for return to service. Do a little google search on it, you will find the documents all about it.Look, I'm NOT going to get back into CSRX or who-worked-where or why or when. The point is, they picked up the engine for a song in good working order...
Cosmo wrote:Look at the difference in size between the FC 0-4-0 saddletanker and WRR 250. Just LOOK!So we can talk about bigger ones then as well.
Trainlover479 wrote:Cosmo, u really should be a little less negative, 250 WILL steam someday, Everyone was like you when NKP was put on display, but then a group of people got together and restored it to operation........OUTSIDE without major shop equipment.Yes. And it was in better condition and better taken care of than 250...