Re: Colorado & Southern #21

Fritz,

These engines were seriously rebuilt in the 1890's by the UP. When built by Brooks, they had wagon top boilers, and the driver spacing was even, at 6' between the axles.

The rebuild undertaken by the UP seems to have been an attempt to make these engines more similar the Cooke Moguls, also owned by the DSP&P.

The new "Brooks" boilers, built by the UP, were very similar in dimension to the Cooke built boilers, and the frames were also rebuilt or replaced to Cooke standards of spacing, with the #2 and #3 spacing at 5' 6".

Although listed on the books as "Brooks" engines till the end of their lives, they were really no more Brooks engines than the Cooke engines were Cooke's after their rebuilding/reboilering by the C&S in the early 1900's.

Oddly, when the Cooke engines were rebuilt, the rear drivers were set in the new frames at 6' spacing, same as the Brook's engines were when built.

#21 and #22 were the last of the "Brooks" Moguls in service on the C&S, and lasted until about 1921.

At the time of your picture, the C&S had placed the trainline air reservoir between the domes. Previously, it had been at the rear of the tender. Also, the smokebox had been extended, to allow use of the straight stack.

All of those C&S Moguls had interesting history.

Mike



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/10/2009 07:43PM by Mike Trent.