Re: Cumbres & Silverton Mikes sometimes fall short ? . . .

Hauspiper Wrote (approximately):
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> I'm sorry, I find "modern" D&RGW locomotive(s)
> boring and ugly.


Well, Mike, "To Each One's Own".

And if you mean that "modern" D&RGW (now Union Pacific) diseasels are boring and ugly (except maybe in comparison to garbage trucks), then I'll have to agree with you.

But if you mean the K-28s & K-36s of the D&S or the K-27 & K-36s of the C&TS, then I disagree wholeheartedly.  The ex-D&RG(W) outside-frame narrow-gauge Mikes may not be "beautiful" in the same sense as those ornate and/or delicate smaller engines built in the 19th century, but they are well-proportioned – and to me, at least – fascinating machines, and anything but "boring".

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender