Re: Como Roundhouse Addition

Posted by Jim Courtney on
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Also Jim, Klinger's South Park's Gunnison Division Memories...1920 dated picture of the #67 conflicts with the date given in Goin' Railroading pg143 which gives the Romley TT incident as 21st Feb 1918, the loco not recovered until Spring of 1918.

Yes, I noticed, Chris. All of the photos in a later chapter of Tom's book also carry dates with the same month and day, but 1920 as opposed to 1918. All the retrieval photos are credited to Andy Anderson; perhaps Andy dated the photos from memory and missed the year by a couple.

Tom's caption for the number 67 Como photo is interesting though. After the 67 was retrieved from the mountainside, it had to be gingerly hauled down to Buena Vista. Then the C&S had to negotiate with the D&RG to move the wrecked locomotive and tender up the D&RG's 3-rail mainline to Leadville. Was it moved on its own wheels or did the D&RG insist on loading it onto standard gauge flat cars for that part of its journey?

Once on C&S 3-foot rails at Leadville, the 67 and tender had to be hauled over Fremont and Boreas passes to just get it to Como, so it could rest and have its picture taken!

We do know that it eventually made it to Denver, was shopped and put back into service:

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/42254/rec/10

Otto Perry photo, Denver, May 31st, 1925


I finally understand, comparing the two photos, why 67 in 1925 has that odd, flat topped steam dome. Looks like it came off a Cooke 2-6-0 (probably did come off a scrapped Cooke 2-6-0).

Also looks to be a management / labor meeting going on below number 67's cab.