Grand Canyon 19 move

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2004 12:27 pm

CGR has apparently sold this non-operating 2-8-0 (ex- Lake Superior & Ishpeming) to a group in Texas.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,766995
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George Jenista · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:11 pm

> GCR has apparently sold this non-operating
> 2-8-0 (ex- Lake Superior & Ishpeming) to
> a group in Texas.

It is going to the City of Frisco, Texas (its new owner) for display.

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John D · **Posted:** Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:20 pm

> It is going to the City of Frisco, Texas
> (its new owner) for display.
Going back to the inception of the steam program on Grand Canyon, didn't Grand Canyon purchase 5 of the ex-LS&I 2-8-0s (this being one of them)? If so, is this the start of a motive power shuffle on GC, i.e. possibly selling some more of the 2-8-0s and go in search of other power?

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James Hefner · **Posted:** Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:40 pm

> Going back to the inception of the steam
> program on Grand Canyon, didn't Grand Canyon
> purchase 5 of the ex-LS&I 2-8-0s (this
> being one of them)? If so, is this the start
> of a motive power shuffle on GC, i.e.
> possibly selling some more of the 2-8-0s and
> go in search of other power?

Not neccessarily; #19 was never operable, but served instead as a parts source for the other engines. It has been on display for some time; when I visited back in 1998 or so, it had wooden replicas of the air brake pump and other parts, IIRC.

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