611

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It is my understanding that the shops did not necessarily work faster.
For example they could still take months to overhaul a boiler. The
advantage they had in turning around an engine was due to the fact
that they had continual business.  They would always have several
boilers in different stages of overhaul at any one time.  They could
turn an engine around quickly because the engine would be receiving
different overhauled parts than were removed from it.
Toney Minter

NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> 2 weeks
>
> thats a full crew, but with a currently operating engine perhaps its
> just new flues and a good all round checkover.
>
> I'm amazed how fast 611 got back but again she was not in that bad of
> condition either.
>
> 2101 got done in one month for the American Freedom train. Thats from
> Ross Rowland Himself.
>
>
> -Lynn-
> On 5/27/2015 1:38 AM, nw-mailing-list-request at nwhs.org wrote:
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>> 611
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>> Just curious --  611 has had pretty much a complete overhaul in about
>> one year. Back in the day of normal operation when they came due for
>> about the same overhaul how long was the shop time then ?
>> Ron Hash
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