Re: Header Photo #71

Posted by Mike Trent on Feb 08, 2015; 2:18am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Header-Photo-71-tp835p844.html

Interesting. Thanks.

#71 was one of the engines on the last Leadville freight, and was stored at Dickey with #8 and #69 until something like August '38. It still had it's plow in Dickey in '38.

As you all must know, after months in dead storage next to the depot, they fired up #71 and #69 and hauled #8 dead back to Como.

The plow was probably taken off in Como and then used for dismantling the line over Boreas. Must have been tarted up with the white striping and put into service on the Clear Creek branch shortly afterward. I really hadn't thought about it having actually been in service with all that striping. Or if I was once aware of it, I had long ago forgotten.