Monday, September 14, 2015

A Flatcar comes home and is immediately put to work...

Last Saturday, I went to a run day at the C&H Railroad near Topeka, Kansas.  In addition to seeing a lot of friends out there and taking my turn at the throttle of two different Ottaway steamers, I also brought home a flatcar.  This is one of the cars that was part of the 2014 downsizing.  Since then, there have been a few times where I could have used another flatcar.  I had considered just building another one, but Mike offered one back since it wasn't currently in service.  I accepted the offer and brought home the heavy flatcar with the roller bearing trucks.  I put it on the rails yesterday, and today I rolled it down to Tombstone.  I stripped the machinery out of Brown's Sawmill, and loaded the shed on the flatcar.  Just think - Saturday it was in Kansas, and two days later it is in Missouri with a sawmill loaded up.  I hope to get the sawmill moved and set up in the next couple of weeks, until then, here is a picture of the shed loaded on the flatcar waiting to be moved to Redbud:


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