Re: Monarch Branch speculations, etc.
| November 03, 2017 07:29PM |
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hank Wrote:
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> Also, Monarch Branch was standard gauged in Aug-
> ust of '56 and 483 had been sent to Alamosa in July.
Maybe #483's last job out of Salida was pulling the work train in the first photo, before she was shipped to Alamosa . . .
> IIRC, 489 pulled the last narrow gauge movement,
> the "plow" train. 489 was the last narrow gauge
> engine at Salida, going to Alamosa that September,
> 480 & 482 had gone in August, 483 in July and 481
> in March. (486 & 487 went South in December '52.)
> 489 had a lot of "lasts" back then. I hope she never
> collects another!
Well, Hank -
Don't forget that #489 was the last D&RGW 2-8-2 to wear a Moffat Green boiler jacket – a distinct honor!!
Come to think of it, #489 holds the same distinction among C&TS 2-8-2's . . .
#499 was second-to-last on the D&RGW, for a Rocky Club trip in 1949 IIRC.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> Also, Monarch Branch was standard gauged in Aug-
> ust of '56 and 483 had been sent to Alamosa in July.
Maybe #483's last job out of Salida was pulling the work train in the first photo, before she was shipped to Alamosa . . .
> IIRC, 489 pulled the last narrow gauge movement,
> the "plow" train. 489 was the last narrow gauge
> engine at Salida, going to Alamosa that September,
> 480 & 482 had gone in August, 483 in July and 481
> in March. (486 & 487 went South in December '52.)
> 489 had a lot of "lasts" back then. I hope she never
> collects another!
Well, Hank -
Don't forget that #489 was the last D&RGW 2-8-2 to wear a Moffat Green boiler jacket – a distinct honor!!
Come to think of it, #489 holds the same distinction among C&TS 2-8-2's . . .
#499 was second-to-last on the D&RGW, for a Rocky Club trip in 1949 IIRC.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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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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