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dthom8787

January 28, 2017 07:29AM

Registered: 13 years ago
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Colorado Midland 22 was considered Hoodoo by many. Its first incident was in Basalt where it side swiped a day coach ripping off one of her boiler check valves scalding 6 or 7 people to death inside the car. 22 had several other wrecks over her career including one in Rifle where she had a head on with a D&RG locomotive killing several more. I believe deaths attributed to wrecks involving 22 were somewhere between 20-30. Ill try to dig out my Midland book that talks about the wrecks of the 22 and see what else I'm forgetting.

Dusty Thomson
Colorado RR Museum
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Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	D&RGW 223	January 27, 2017 11:52PM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	dthom8787	January 28, 2017 07:29AM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	JS Driver	January 29, 2017 08:33AM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	Tomstp	January 29, 2017 10:44AM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	brian budeit	January 29, 2017 11:54AM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	CharlieMcCandless	January 29, 2017 02:31PM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	el gringo grande	February 01, 2017 09:20AM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	EBTfan15	February 01, 2017 11:06AM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	Earl	February 01, 2017 12:14PM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	John K	February 02, 2017 12:14PM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	et&wnc	February 01, 2017 03:12PM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	kcsivils	February 01, 2017 05:50PM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	Kelly Anderson	February 01, 2017 06:21PM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	Earl	February 02, 2017 02:37PM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	RonRudnick	February 03, 2017 07:52AM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	weston1879	February 03, 2017 01:59PM
Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)	D&RGW 223	February 03, 2017 05:09PM

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