Re: 268?

The cab of #268 is missing quite a few appliances. I'll try to remember to ask if they are stored, the next time I'm at the museum (which is only open from late May to the end of September). When donated in 1955 and placed at its original display site in Legion Park, it was intact. In fact, the local railroaders actually steamed it up once in the park, later in 1955. The top couple of feet of the smokestack was torched off by the Rio Grande in 1959, so it wouldn't have to be removed when the locomotive was borrowed and taken to Denver for the state's 100th anniversary of the discovery of gold. The dummy diamond stack it has worn since is still there to hide that damage (anyone know where there is a spare C-16 cast stack?). The other little-known fact is that Knott's Berry Farm tried to buy #268 in 1973. They were told it was "not for sale at any price." Knott's ended up buying the #464 out of Durango shortly thereafter.