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Old 06-03-2012, 05:21 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Marin View Post
For several years six of the steel coaches used on the White Pass excursion train sat in the yard of a small metal fabrication shop in the Skagit River delta. The trucks for the coaches sat next to them. I have no idea what was being done to them. We drove by them every weekend. They were all painted and lettered. I don't know if the shop had a contract to refurbish them or what. Then one day they were gone.
The WP&Y always seems like it's reconditioning old and building new coaches. Its fleet of cars seems to continually increase, well beyond the number of original, truly-authentic old-time cars of its own and defunct railroads like Sumpter Valley (Oregon) RR's round-roofed cars.
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