Re: K-37 conversions from C-41s

drgwk37 Wrote:
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> It took the Grande on average 2 months to
> build the K-37's once the C-41 was retired.
> I've attached a partial snip from a sheet com-
> piled by Jackson Thode on the K-37's for 492.
> All the K-37's made there first trips out of Ala-
> mosa and made their debuts in sequential
> number order.


William et al -

IIRC, once the 'reverse engineering' of the K-36's was done and the drawings prepared then the D&RGW began to have the custom castings made, mostly by Stearns & Rogers in Denver.  I would expect that once #490 was completed and tested then the frames, wheels, valve gear assemblies, etc, etc, were being produced on a fairly regular schedule and that the two-month period between the end of life as a standard gauge 2-8-0 and the rebirth as a narrow gauge 2-8-2 was mostly the time needed to completely refurbish the just the boiler – re-tubing and modifying it as necessary before attaching it to the new narrow-gauge frame – and then only a few days more for adding the cab, miscellaneous appliances, and all of the new water, steam and air lines, painting & lettering, etc.

. . . including the beautiful new Moffat-Green jackets, of course.    

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



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