Using Engine Smokestacks to Estimate Photograph Dates...

[Jeff Ramsey]

[Mike Trent]

Thanks, Jeff!

[Chris Walker]

Just jumping in with this....

C&S #30 with McConnell in Mal Ferrell's C&Sng pg 33 intertwined C&S on cabside, the stack is a different profile from the Salida Centennial Archive posted previously,  a lot like the C&S #2 wore on the Morrison run  

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15330coll22/id/10267  X-11159

[Robert McFarland]

Don't forget that the UPD&G renumbered their engines in 1896.Is this C&S 2 or is it UPD&G 2?

[Chris Walker]

Robert,

it could be if you want it to be    but UPD&G  #153 (reno 1896 #2) which had arched cabside windows, was in the staged loco collision in 1896 sold/scrapped 1898 while C&S#2 was holding down the Morrison run at the t-o-c.  
In the previously posted DPL picture taken at Morrison, the #2 has Antlers above the Headlight and a pair of tall Flagstaffs on the Pilotbeam.  Those correspond with the details of easily identified C&S#2 at Denver(on 3railed track) pg 15 Narrow Gauge Pictorial vi (mis-located in caption as being at Como(?!!!). No Antlers on the locos being wrecked in the fields of Denver.

And I haven't seen anything to suggest that the UPD&G 153 received the #2 in service, references to it at the staged collision are as the 153 and of course the other, UPD&G 154 reno'd #4.