Re: Rio Grande Southern #22 headlight
| April 11, 2009 12:52AM |
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It took me a while but I finally put the pictures from my camera on the computer that show the headlight and the other items.
A View of the right wing close up. You can see the latch at the bottom.
I have looked in many books and online for similar headlights but found none. I have come to the conclusion that it is definitely not D&RGW/RGS style at all. I then looked at my photos of the SP mogul outside the museum and discovered that there was a very similar design on this engine. I have zoomed in and attached it here.
This is the whistle that is stamped D&RGW. I looked in some of the standard gauge D&RGW steam books I have and found similar looking whistles on L-131 and L-105 articulateds. They have a small picture of L-131 3606 hanging on an adjacent whistle That I know is definitely not correct. I suspect they have the picture on the wrong whiste.
There are lots of builders plates at this museum and I am wondering if anyone knows where on the web you can find a place with builders numbers that I could compare the numbers at the museum with?
It is still a mystery where this headlight is from but I would like to tell the museum something more than just negative information. They have stated that they would really like to have the correct information on the items they have.
Daniel
A View of the right wing close up. You can see the latch at the bottom.
I have looked in many books and online for similar headlights but found none. I have come to the conclusion that it is definitely not D&RGW/RGS style at all. I then looked at my photos of the SP mogul outside the museum and discovered that there was a very similar design on this engine. I have zoomed in and attached it here.
This is the whistle that is stamped D&RGW. I looked in some of the standard gauge D&RGW steam books I have and found similar looking whistles on L-131 and L-105 articulateds. They have a small picture of L-131 3606 hanging on an adjacent whistle That I know is definitely not correct. I suspect they have the picture on the wrong whiste.
There are lots of builders plates at this museum and I am wondering if anyone knows where on the web you can find a place with builders numbers that I could compare the numbers at the museum with?
It is still a mystery where this headlight is from but I would like to tell the museum something more than just negative information. They have stated that they would really like to have the correct information on the items they have.
Daniel
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