V&T No. 11 question

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Sun Mar 23, 2003 2:45 pm

Re: the thread below on movie locomotives.. In the 1980s, it was said that Old Tucson was going to convert No. 11, the Reno, to compressed air operation. This was to involve gutting the boiler and installing a diesel compressor in the firebox, with huge air reservoirs installed in the tender. The question is, did they ever do it? I've been asking this of people for about 15 years, including a few V&T experts, and have never gotten a definitive answer. Surely someone among us has actually been there and checked to see if this vandalism actually took place?

Reno at Virginia City
ryarger@rypn.org

Olaf The Red · **Posted:** Sun Mar 23, 2003 7:36 pm

> Re: the thread below on movie locomotives..
> In the 1980s, it was said that Old Tucson
> was going to convert No. 11, the Reno, to
> compressed air operation. This was to
> involve gutting the boiler and installing a
> diesel compressor in the firebox, with huge
> air reservoirs installed in the tender. The
> question is, did they ever do it? I've been
> asking this of people for about 15 years,
> including a few V&T experts, and have
> never gotten a definitive answer. Surely
> someone among us has actually been there and
> checked to see if this vandalism actually
> took place?

I do not belive they did because when I saw her when I was 8 in 93 for the first time she was in full steam and in her last movie(in operation) Tombstone she is in full steam and looks great even theough she says western pacific on her.

BEDT15@aol.com

paul horky · **Posted:** Sat Mar 29, 2003 3:15 pm

> Ire do not belive they did because when I saw
> her when I was 8 in 93 for the first time
> she was in full steam and in her last
> movie(in operation) Tombstone she is in full
> steam and looks great even theough she says
> western pacific on her.
re. v&T 11 the engine was converted to run on air as the boiler was condemed do to bad seams in boiler some things were removed from the bioler but the the compresser was installed in the baggage car this car was destroded in a fire at old tucson in 1996 engine was also damaged but has been cosmedicly restored for use in the move wild wild west 2 the engine is still at old tucson