F&CC10 with URY12 photos
| September 02, 2019 12:04AM |
Randy Hees Wrote:
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> From our draft preservation study....
>
> The locomotive was built for the Florence &
> Cripple Creek Railroad in March 1896 by Baldwin
> Locomotive Works as No 10, Independence, Baldwin
> Class 10-26E-250, c/n 14771,
> 2-8-0, 16x20, 38” drivers, 72,000 lbs (as built)
> at a cost of $8,749.61.
>
> The locomotive was sold to Uintah Raillway in
> August 1917 becoming that railroad’s number 12.
> The Uintah replaced the boiler in 1924 (Baldwin
> “extra order” No 5209)
Smokebox and stack are obvious differences.
Bruce
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> From our draft preservation study....
>
> The locomotive was built for the Florence &
> Cripple Creek Railroad in March 1896 by Baldwin
> Locomotive Works as No 10, Independence, Baldwin
> Class 10-26E-250, c/n 14771,
> 2-8-0, 16x20, 38” drivers, 72,000 lbs (as built)
> at a cost of $8,749.61.
>
> The locomotive was sold to Uintah Raillway in
> August 1917 becoming that railroad’s number 12.
> The Uintah replaced the boiler in 1924 (Baldwin
> “extra order” No 5209)
Smokebox and stack are obvious differences.
Bruce
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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