Re: Mystery Rotary Snow Plow 012 at Kokomo

Posted by Jerry Day on
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Rotary ON spent a lot of time running out of Leadville, the first time in 1890 and the last time in 1914. They had narrow gauge trucks for 012 (071) for when ON was down or if they needed an extra. Rotary OO (Crystal River AB2) also had a set of standard gauge trucks as it was used on both the narrow and standard gauge portions of the Crystal River, but they never used OO on standard gauge. I met an engineer who fired it on its first run to Crested Butte in 1916 and was pilot on it on its last run in 1952.

Essentially there was no such thing as a narrow gauge rotary, they were all standard models which could have trucks for either gauge (or both).

Jerry Day