brian budeit Wrote:
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> A number of years ago the Narrow Gauge & Short
> Line Gazette published drawings of the Climax by
> someone I think was named Clinton Otis Dunn....
His last name was Dumm. While very detailed, the drawings were made in the early 1960s based on sketches he made in 1909. Some details that wouldn't have been present in 1909 (such as the shape of the Ridgway spark arrestor on the C&S version of #30/74) were not very accurate. The climax was gone long before 1909, so while the drawings look great, I wouldn't trust them to be as accurate as his drawings of the other equipment. I can't find any biographical information on Mr. Dumm right now, but my recollection is that I found from earlier research that he was fairly young (mid-teens) when the sketches were made, so he would have probably been too young to do any proper documentation when the Climax left Boulder in 1899. Dates he marked on the drawings showed he worked on them as late as 1968, which would also indicate that he was pretty young in 1909.