Re: The last set of CN Ry Foreign Funny Gauge
| February 20, 2018 02:46PM |
Nice pic of the NP 42 in steam. This is a picture of it being converted to electric in 1965.
And for the narrow gauge. That is me. The only standard gauge stuff that interests me is my addiction to rotary snow plows
Leslie #26 built by Cooke 2/1889 Paddle blade Union Pacific 064; 3’ Gauge; Lettered Union Pacific RY : Denver Leadville & Gunnison 064;
Colorado & Southern 01 1900; C&S 011 (2nd) 1903; Assigned Como; C&S 99200 6-1912; stand gge 6-1912, narrow gge 12-1913;
Used On DB&W 1/1914; damaged in Como RH fire 1935, rblt with sloped tender from C&S 222; standard gauged 8-1943, assigned Leadville;
main shaft failure, ret 4/1951: Scrapped 7/1/51 Luria Bros. Pueblo
And for the narrow gauge. That is me. The only standard gauge stuff that interests me is my addiction to rotary snow plows
Leslie #26 built by Cooke 2/1889 Paddle blade Union Pacific 064; 3’ Gauge; Lettered Union Pacific RY : Denver Leadville & Gunnison 064;
Colorado & Southern 01 1900; C&S 011 (2nd) 1903; Assigned Como; C&S 99200 6-1912; stand gge 6-1912, narrow gge 12-1913;
Used On DB&W 1/1914; damaged in Como RH fire 1935, rblt with sloped tender from C&S 222; standard gauged 8-1943, assigned Leadville;
main shaft failure, ret 4/1951: Scrapped 7/1/51 Luria Bros. Pueblo
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