Re: Silverton Branch motive power

Jimr260 Wrote:
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> I am reading a magazine published by Kalmbach,
> titled "Steam's Lost Empire. There is a long photo
> spread by Tom Gildersleeve on the D&RGW narrow
> gauge in 1963. There is a picture of 492 pulling a
> work train between Durango and Silverton and the
> author states "this was the first time in memory
> that an engine heavier than a K-28 had run on the
> Silverton Branch".
>
> Is that true? I thought in the 40's/50's there
> were K-36's being used on the branch.


Yes, that's a true statement -

SFAIK, no K-36's ran on the Silverton Branch until well after abandonment of the San Juan Extension from Chama to Durango and Farmington.

#492 didn't even make it to Rockwood that day – March 19, 1963 – due to ice on the track, and had to back into town:

Photo copyright © 1963, 1998 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.

I'm sure one of the many historians here on the NGDF – someone with a better memory than mine – can tell us which was the first K-36 to arrive in Silverton and when, and also when K-37 #497 first arrived there.

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



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/2018 07:52PM by Russo Loco.