edowty Wrote:
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> It does resemble a C-21 and very much looks like
> the "Q" 537
> much more so.She was built by baldwin in 1898
> for the Coahulia & Zacetecis Railway in
> Mexico.Much of the equipment including three
> locomotives and over a dozen freight and passenger
> cars were imported to the states for a proposed
> loop type tourist railroad in Pomona california
> around a county lake comple
cant remember the
> lake name)
> I remember the equipment as a teenager going down
> to look it over with my dad in 1969.When the
> project failed around 1971 the equipment was sold
> and went various places.The number 1 went to a
> railroad theme restraunt in Pasadena , california.
> I remember it well. One of the other 2-8-0s went
> to Palmer Lake for a while and is now in Central
> City
> as the "Other 71".I don't know where the freight
> and passenger cars went to.I do know that the
> little center cupola caboose that was at the lake
> was badly burned from vandels. As a side note the
> #1 was featured
> in "Jerry Bests" book Mexican Narrow Gauge. She
> began as a coal burner and at some point converted
> to oil. She currently has a slope back tender.
> "Matt can tell you how they aquired "her".
I believe the lake is called Puddingstone Reservoir.
The remains of the rolling stock, including the caboose, were restored for the Huckeberry Railroad in 1975; I think the deal was brokered by Hal Wilmunder. The coaches that were too far gone to be restored gave up their trucks for the RGS 260 and Chili Line coaches 306 and 320.
The Mexican cars were from the U de Y and the C y Z. One of the cars is the only remaining car from the Catskill Mountain Railway.
Steve