Not WWII scrap

nedsn3 Wrote:
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> the unmodified K-27's along with those
> long lines of T-12's and C-16's just sat at
> Alamosa and Durango waiting for WW2 scrap drives.

Actually they were scrapped long before WWII. The only D&RGW or RGS engine to bite the dust during the war was RGS 40, scrapped after being damaged in a derailment in late '42.

OK, D&RG 343 was scraped in '41 but before the US entered the war. All the rest of the lighter engines were scraped by January of '39 with the non sh K-27's going last.

Of the engines on hand in 1930:

T-12:
1934 166, 167
1936 172
1937 174, 175
1938 168(display)
1941 169(display)

C-16:
1933 283(sold)
1934 210, 218
1935 219, 220, 265, 270
1936 206, 214, 225, 226, 229, 284
1937 201, 209

C-17:
1934 303, 304
1935 306
1936 300, 301
1938 302

C-18:
1938 320

C-19:
1936 348
1938 342, 347
1939 341, 344
1941 343

K-27:
1939 450, 451, 457, 460 (the remaining slide-valves)

Note: RGS 3, 10, 12, 15-17 WERE scrapped in '42 but they had been out of service since '27 or so...

Next D&RGW engine to go was #316 in '46.

hank