Re: Locos on the RGS

Herb Kelsey Wrote:
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Note: I have found that using dots, instead of spaces, between entries in tables I post makes the software keep things more or less in line
Now for a few quibbles...



> 2nd 1 56 Class 1906
> 1913 D&RG 56/RGS 35/BC&F 1
There is some evidence that this engine never made it to RGS before it was sold to BC&F. All of the class 56 engines from the RGW went first to Burnham for shopping then on to the RGS and #35 apparently hadn't been completed yet when the Silver Panic and the 1st recievership went down in '93.
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> 18 60 Class
> 1891 1916 D&RG 258
> 19 60 Class
> 1891 1916 D&RG 259




> 21 60 Class
> 1891 1916 D&RG 261
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18, 19 & 21 were never used(AFAIK) after they went outlaw at the start of 1917 but they remained on the property, along with 2nd #1, untill the mid-20's (1924 by some sources)







> 26 - Number never assigned
I have seen, somewhere, that RGS was going to use #26 on an addtional ex-RGW engine but that the deal fell through. I can't remember where I saw this or what engine it was going to be.





















> Quite a stable of power but many were out very
> early. The little 56 class 2-8-0's were too small
Actually, records indicate that the RGS used the Class 56 engines heavily in the late 1890's, they had all just been heavily refurbished at Burnham. Class 56 was only a little lighter than Class 60 but, with main line standard gague after 1890 the D&RG system had a surplus of engines with most of the smaller ones going away, a process added to by the arrival of the Class 125 engines in 1903.
> of the 60 Class (C-16's) didn't survive the 1903
> edict to install automatic air and equipment and
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I've hever heard that reason given before, do you have a source for it?
I have heard speculation that the Class 56 engines were disposed of by the RGS, and many of the Class 60 engines were scrapped so that the D&RG, in complete control of RGS since 1896, could lease engines to RGS for it's own profit. Don't know if that was the plan but it certainly worked out that way. Note that 1904 is also the point at which D&RG was digging up funds for WP construction wherever it could.

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hank