D&RG 169 faux diamond stack

Bill M. Wrote:
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> Incidentally, your first photo is 169 rather than
> 168. 169 also had a straight stack for its entire
> 20th century operational life. And when prepared
> for display at the 1939 New York Worlds Fair and
> then Alamosa, it too was given a diamond stack. I
> guess someone at the D&RGW thought it looked
> better with a diamond stack.

Not Lew Lathrop. He mentions it on page 313 of "Little Engines and Big Men" (Chapter xxvii). He said it "looked wrong" because they "did not shorten her front end".

hank



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/2020 10:41PM by hank.