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Congrats Mike...!!!

I am real happy someone in our circle of enthusiasts was able to snag it.

That last photo confirmed my belief that there is a great engine underneath all that dust and crud.

Had I won it, I would have done same as you. It is also 10 hours round trip for us.

Gil

Thanks, Gil!

Have you ever seen one where the base split like this one? It’s like the board shrunk and the only place it could give way was in the center. The spacing of the boiler and engine are not altered at all. The strips on the end grain are still solidly glued or however they are attached.

The ding in the boiler is a bummer and something was also dropped on the smoke stack flare and flattened part of it.