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Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Wed Jul 17, 2002 12:21 am

C&O No. 2700 for sale. Click on Steam at link below. Also click steam parts for a Worthington BL heater or ex-LS&I tender booster.

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David M. Wilkins · **Posted:** Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:52 am

> C&O No. 2700 for sale. Click on Steam at
> link below. Also click steam parts for a
> Worthington BL heater or ex-LS&I tender
> booster.

Hmm, hard to pass up, but my organization already has a non-operting C&O 2-8-4. As far as numbers are concerned, there appears to be more of them preserved than anything else, and except for the one at the IRM, and occasionally ours (2716), I don't think any of them are under cover.

Then again, those Russuan diesels do look somewhat inviting........

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Ron Goldfeder · **Posted:** Wed Jul 17, 2002 9:19 am

C&O 2-8-4 #2727 at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis is also covered, as seen at the link (scroll down about half way).

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Greg Scholl · **Posted:** Wed Jul 17, 2002 9:31 am

> C&O No. 2700 for sale. Click on Steam at
> link below. Also click steam parts for a
> Worthington BL heater or ex-LS&I tender
> booster.

Interestingly, the engine was parked at the west end of town on June 8-9 when 6325 ran(last year it was not in sight of the depot).

I was shooting in the cab of 6325 on June 8th, and after guest engineer Gary Bensman got the train rolling I decided to try a shot out the left gangway to get a view down the boiler. To my surprise 2700 was in the viewfinder on the left. Glad I got that shot now, as it may not be there when we go back in October.

Greg Scholl

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Tom Cox · **Posted:** Wed Jul 17, 2002 11:04 am

QUESTION: What's the difference between a rich railroad museum and a poor railroad museum?

ANSWER: A rich railroad museum has at least two steam engines disassembled on the property.

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LLW 7817 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 17, 2002 11:17 am

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Superheater · **Posted:** Wed Jul 17, 2002 11:48 am

759 is safely tucked away at the "core complex" (roundhouse in scranton)and on a "wish" list.

L Beckman · **Posted:** Wed Jul 17, 2002 11:55 am

> Hmm, hard to pass up, but my organization
> already has a non-operting C&O 2-8-4. As
> far as numbers are concerned, there appears
> to be more of them preserved than anything
> else, and except for the one at the IRM, and
> occasionally ours (2716), I don't think any
> of them are under cover.

David: C&O 2789 (the last Kanawha and the only one surviving with a welded boiler) has been under cover in the museums shop building for some time now where it is undergoing a slow cosmetic restoration.

Les Beckman (Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum/North Judson, Indiana)

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