Andy:
The D&RGW was going to move 00 to Alamosa. The last cleanup train out of Gunnison was supposed to haul it over Marshall Pass. According to Bob Richardson, the trainmaster was afraid to haul it and claimed his train did not have enough braking power. It was left behind and eventually scrapped. The boiler was used by the Gunnison County garage until that burned. The boiler was still sitting in an empty field in the 70s and I photographed it and measured it. The tender was taken up to a ranch on the Ohio Creek road and sat there for years. I photographed it in 1974, but the next time I went there it was gone and no one seems to know where it went.
00 was the only rotary to have real narrow gauge trucks as it was orginally built with a set of standard gauge and a set of narrow gauge. The Crystal River had a hoist that would lift it up so the trucks could be switched. Supposedly the standard gauge trucks for it were kept at Salida, but the records never show it being used on the standard gauge as the D&RGW had two standard gauge rotaries.
RGS Rotary 2 (and 1 also) had blades like OM and ON. Cooke and the other builders of rotaries switched to a blade design that OY has. It was less likely to be broken by rocks and could clear itself of snow better than the earlier design.