(Nope, this is not about your grandfather's grandfather's pepperbox carried at Bull Run). The Jan/Feb.. issue of Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette just floated in, and of interest to me was a photo on P. 9, of Old Betsy, an 0-4-0 on the
Oregon and California Railroad, that looks like the shortest steam engine with tender I have seen (the stack comes out
of the cab, and it is not a steam dummy). I have built a model of a VERY long caboose, and a VERY short one, and posted
them on here in the past. If you have a Big Boy, you need to build Old Betsy. The magazine, next month will start
an article on building Betsy, an 0-4-0T, larger with a longer boiler, but on a VERY short driver wheelbase (I'd be afraid
to climb in the cab for fear it would rear up)..that is shown on P. 96. (I doubt if either will be in the tinplate catalogs that
come out in April)
