Ahh true true. BUT -- The catalog plan number at Lima was available in any gauge :)
> "The prototypes for these three truckers were of modest size. > Considered by LIMA as being 60 tonners, ( Class 60-3 ), eight > locomotives were built off the same 'catalog' or 'erecting card' > number: 428-C-5055. Three of these were constructed to operate on > 3'-0" gauge track. Of these three, Swayne #6 was delivered in 1926 > at a cost of $21,735.00. The New Mexico Lumber's Shay #7 was the > last narrow gauge Shay that Lima built, being delivered in November > of 1929, at a cost of $23,025.00 FOB Lima. As noted in the photo > captions, this turned out to be beyond the NMLco's means so the shay > was repossessed and sent to Seattle. > > The other five were built for operation on standard gauge trackage." On Sep 30, 2010, at 9:14 PM, Bill Lane wrote: > To the best of my knowledge the WSLCo Shay #12 always was and still > is to this day narrow gauge. It is currently at the Colorado > Railroad Museum. However PBL made some of them (I think I heard 20 > of them) in Standard gauge in the 80s. Talmadge C 'TC' Carr Sn42 and Hn42 somewhere in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest [email protected] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
