Re: Class 56
| April 25, 2015 06:04PM |
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Two of the Rio Grande Class 56 locomotives were leased to the Tonopah RR in the 1905. Train register book for Mound House still exists from the era and it shows #64 and 66 being run light with green flags in advance of the one of the regular trains. There are reports of three locomotives where shipped from Colorado to the Tonopah RR.
The image below is a detail from a larger over-all view of the Tonopah RR yard in Tonopah. The original view was taken by a commercial photographer out of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and his glass plates were acquired in the 1950s by the State of Wyoming and now part of the State Archives. The over-all image appeared in Beebe's book on the SP-CP.
Brian Norden
The image below is a detail from a larger over-all view of the Tonopah RR yard in Tonopah. The original view was taken by a commercial photographer out of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and his glass plates were acquired in the 1950s by the State of Wyoming and now part of the State Archives. The over-all image appeared in Beebe's book on the SP-CP.
Brian Norden
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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