Herb Kelsey Wrote:
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> One of the 5 locos of the 45 Class, numbered
> 150-154, built in 1881. They were the only D&RG
> narrow gauge engines with a boiler so short that
> they had to put the bell on top of the sand dome.
> They were out early. Only one to survive into the
> 20th Century was the 151, which was scrapped in
> 1902. Odly enough, unlike many of the early
> engines, none of them were sold but all were
> dismantled by the Rio Grande.
>
#150 sold 2/1892 to Bradford, Bordell & Kinzua (Pa.), later West Virginia Midland
#153 sold 7/1895 to New Mexico Lumber Co.
hank