Re: Alamosa November 10 1944

Jimmy Blouch Wrote:
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> "I noticed an switch engine 605 at montrose. Is
> this a type-o? I did not think D&RGW had ng locos
> with numbers higher that 499."
>
> I'm sorry, I should have specified Montrose switch
> engine as being standard gauge.

to be precise, a C-26 built as RGW 116 in 1889, D&RG 635 in 1908, to 605 in 1924 and sold 7/51. Noteworthy as the last RGW engine on the D&RGW system (not counting engines from after the 1901 D&RG purchase) [altho at this time there were still the class C-40 engines ( orig RGW 700-704) which were scraped in 1945-46.]

hank, trivial as always