Re: RGS Pile Driver picture
| November 16, 2021 12:02PM |
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hank Wrote:
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> On pages 154-155 of "Silver San Juan" there is a
> picture of RGS pile driver 0620 being powered by
> Class 60 engine #6 working on a trestle in Lost
> Canyon in 1906. Picture is credited to Barney
> Cornelius, Colorado Railroad Museum collection.
> In the picture it appears that #6 is connected by
> its tender to the "doghouse" end of of #0620 and
> there appears to be a long pipe, not a hose,
> running from the steam dome back over the cab &
> tender (supports on both) to the pile driver.
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Interesting to compare and contrast this pile driver to 0B, no exterior siding, placed on an RGS flat, etc. It's hard to make out this line from the monkey tail to the tender, but looking closely I can see what you're talking about.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/16/2021 04:35PM by Joe Weigman.
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> On pages 154-155 of "Silver San Juan" there is a
> picture of RGS pile driver 0620 being powered by
> Class 60 engine #6 working on a trestle in Lost
> Canyon in 1906. Picture is credited to Barney
> Cornelius, Colorado Railroad Museum collection.
> In the picture it appears that #6 is connected by
> its tender to the "doghouse" end of of #0620 and
> there appears to be a long pipe, not a hose,
> running from the steam dome back over the cab &
> tender (supports on both) to the pile driver.
[ngtrainpics.photoshelter.com]
Interesting to compare and contrast this pile driver to 0B, no exterior siding, placed on an RGS flat, etc. It's hard to make out this line from the monkey tail to the tender, but looking closely I can see what you're talking about.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/16/2021 04:35PM by Joe Weigman.
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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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