Re: DSNG Roundhouse fire

In the summer of 1997 I met with Dan McCall, who was at that time Vice President of Operations(?), for a roundhouse tour. I had asked him about the fire and he told me that after the fire broke out that morning there was a meeting with Bradshaw upstairs in the Durango Depot and he informed everyone that they where going to rebuild. So I asked him about if they had any concerns about the integrity of the locomotives after the fire, like how the Reading T-1 2101 had been sidelined after being in a fire. He sad if the original wooden timbers that supported the rails over the pit tracks had collapsed that the engines would had been done for. 497 sustained the least damage as it was apart, however one of the 28s was the worst as it was ready for a run and tender full of coal.
A lot of money was used to restabilize the original wall that is now between the shop and museum.

But like Earl had mentioned earlier. The rebuild resulted in the current shop. Sad tho, that the original structure, or what was left of it, had burned. But not the best set up for doing any type of major work.


Dan