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Posted by ChooChooMike on Monday, July 2, 2007 4:14 PM
 daveklepper wrote:

Aren't the two steamers at Prometory replicas?   Doesn't that show it CAN be done?

Modernization need not change character.   Look at what Grand Canyon is doing!

Yup, the 2 steamers at Promontory in northern Utah are both replicas.  They sell a book there showing the building of one of those replicas.  I don't recall the company that constructed them. I wasn't able to see the steamers Sad [:(] when I was there this past Feb. on a weekday. The folks there were shorthanded and  weren't able to escort me to the enginehouse to get up close and personal Big Smile [:D] They bring them out on the weekends and recreate the Golden Spike ceremony.

 

Mike 

I model steam in 12" - 1' scale :D

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