Re: C&S 9 video - and a narrow gauge 2-6-0 in regular service

Thanks for posting the video of Colorado & Southern mogul 9. Although the engine wasn't under steam, it did move and reminded of a number of cab rides on diesel powered freights between Leadville and Climax when I worked at the Climax mill in the summer of 1966. A couple of times I even got to ride the engine on company time when I was unloading box cars of empty steel drums (that would leave a couple of days later filled with molybdenum concentrate for a refinery in New York), and I couldn't be unloading drums while the Climax yard was being switched. I always wondered what it would have been like to C&S 9 on the same roadbed less than 30 years earlier.

Years later a cab ride on Guayaquil & Quito narrow gauge mogul 11 brought back visions of C&S 9, imagining that this would be as close as I would ever get to riding a Colorado&Southern narrow gauge mogul. When C&S 9 ran on the loop, I only found out about it after it was all over. So riding engine 11 really was as close as I could get, even though engine 11 looks larger than engine 9 and a bit more modern, but it was still a real step back in time and a real narrow gauge 2-6-0 in regular service.





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