Re: Bald Mt RY to use D&RG engine on coal tram

OC MP62 Wrote:
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> I offer the suggestion that the Denver & Rio
> Grande locomotive that was rented to the Bald
> Mountain Railway may have been the D&RG #100, a
> Baldwin 4-4-0 class 42, construction number 5436,
> 1881. This was the oldest small engine left on
> the D&RG and not dismantled until June 30, 1908.

I rather doubt that. Class 42 engines, with 45" drivers, were designed for passenger service. ISTR seeing somewhere that #100 was used for the supers train and other such uses in later years.
I would suggest that a Class 56 2-8-0(basically a slightly smaller version of a class 60[later C-16]), of which the D&RG had a large number surplus at the turn of the 20th century. Most of these were also dismantled in 1908.

Hank