Re: C&S 75 in Leadville . . . but when?

Posted by Mike Trent on
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Jim, I also have wondered about those steps. I modeled my #75 with those straight welded steps.

Look at that picture at Morse Bros. You will see that straight rear end beam. That's also what is in your "1940" picture.

Adding, as always, to confusion on these kind of details is bad guesses and mistakes in captions of published pictures. Sometimes you just have to do the best you can.

I've taken artistic license with several details on my models, particularly around my timeframe of "sometime not too long before the 1935 Como Roundhouse fire". The reason for this, of course, is that my Rotary has it's pre-fire wood body. So too, #72 has a box headlight. And so on. But both #74 and #76 have the straight rear end beams. And #75 has an angled end beam. Some of this stuff was done before I discovered photos I didn't have, or was misled by mistakes in captions. But they are what they are, and I'm OK with it.