Re: Shay Quiz - Follow up discussion

Thanks Everett,
There are several very interesting facts these recent postings have shown, one in point was the movement of the Gasoline Car being run from where it was put on 3' track at Salida all the way to Silverton. Now we see the first Shay for Colorado to be "set-up" in Denver and run all the way to Silverton and Red Mountain in only several day. The Shay slow speed should not even be mentioned because it is the top speed of all the rest of the narrow gauge trains at that time. The Shay ran as fast as everything else.
Also very interesting is the comment of the Traveling Engineer having such a bad visit to Colorado as no one like the idea of a Shay at first, but the Silverton RR crews liked it better than the #100 when they got used to running it.
I also found it interesting how Otto Mears used the Durango shop several times for the heaver repairs, or different repairs that his engine house could not do. I wonder what gear ratio the new trucks had and what problem the conversion might have fixed.
After the Shay was sold by the RGS, at one point being called a "Turkey", it served several logging lines for many years. See more data from RGS records in my June 24, 2005 post here.
Hope you all enjoyed the original source information and more is out there if the time is taken to search. I sure apperciate the credit from Everett for passes this on to all of us narrow gaugers.