Re: Class C-41-190 driver spacing

hank Wrote:
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> Class C-41-190 drivers were evenly spaced, 5'0"
> apart, per D&RGW Folio #7.
> BTW, Folio #7 has two sheets for this class, one
> for the engines with SH(sheet #49), one for those
> without(sheet #48)! Driver spacing is the same on
> both.
> Also, there were two groups of engines classed as
> C-41 under the 1924 system on D&RGW, 1000-1030
> (ex-1100-1131, Class C-41-190, Baldwin 1901, built
> as compounds) and 950-964 (C-41-185, Baldwin 1900,
> orig #901-915).
> Not to mention Classes C-38, C-39, C-40(2 of
> these!) & C-42. All of these were ex-RGW engines
> except for the C-39 (ex Spring Creek Coal), all
> built (except the C-39, 1912) 1900-01, and all
> were gone by 1936-37 except one group of C-40's,
> #'s 930-934 (C-40-199, Baldwin 1901, Ex-D&RG
> 990-994, Ex-RGW 700-704, orig Vauc. Compound)
> which were all scrapped in 1945-46. Those C-40-199
> engines were, btw, the last RGW engines (not built
> to D&RG specs like the C-48's of 1906) to exist as
> a complete class. All the RGW passenger engines
> were gone by the late 1920's and the only RGW
> engine to outlast these on D&RGW was #605 (C-26,
> Baldwin 1889, ex-#635, ex-RGW # 116) sold in 1951.
> Odd that, as the rest of her class was mostly
> scrapped in the mid-1920's with a couple lasting
> until 1934. #605 was at Montrose in the late
> 1940's up 'til she was sold, not much used. Real
> pity nobody saved her since she was the last
> "real" RGW engine.
> Now you know why I so often list full-length class
> numbers (C-17-70, for ex.)!
> hank


Hank.............WOW awesome info! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

William
aka drgwk37