Re: proposed mallets never built and SV/Uintah

dougvv Wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have drawings four drawings (small resolution)
> of several proposed articulateds:
>
> 1) D&RGW 2-8-8-2 - proposed by - unknown
> 2) D&RGW 2-8-8-2 from two C28s - proposed by -
> unknown
> 3) RGs 2-8-8-2 - proposed by - Alco
> 4) ET&WNC 2-6-6-2 - proposed by - unknown
> 5) C&S 2-6-6-2 - no drawing but the text that goes
> with the drawing.
>
> I would like to know who proposed these
> locomotives (Alco, Baldwin, etc).
>
At the end of WWII, when the USRA was returning control of the railroads, the USRA sent a KCS motive power superintendent to do a study and survey of the D&RG lines...both narrow gauge and standard gauge. One of his recommendations was to build articulateds for the D&RG narrow gauge and to rebuild some standard gauge engines to narrow gauge (ala K37). He also recommended building steel ng passenger cars with side center doors.

Jerry Day
Longmont, CO