Re: White Pass - Skagway River

Many years ago I remember watching #497 operating in Durango, beating the cr*p out of the grade crossing north of the Depot. The K-36s didn't have the same problem. Don't the K-28s have bigger counterweights than the White Pass outside frame locos? Even #69 seems to have smaller counterweights in photos; but
admittedly I have no measurements for proof. White Pass seemed to be satisfied with the Sumpter Valley Mikes, #80 & 81, ALCO products that they retained after WWII when the MacArthurs and K-28s were available. Of course they had acquired the 80 and 81 before the war, without the help of the Army.