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 Post subject: Colorado & Southern 60, 629, first and last
PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:06 pm 

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No. 60 at Idaho Springs, not too long after the rails were pulled up on the Clear Creek line in 1941:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... +s60_3.jpg

No. 629, at Denver, no date, but pre-1957, as it got a silver smokebox that year. This is the one in the "meadowlark" episode on the Howard Fogg recording, where the bird would chirp everytime it whistled for a crossing. It was sold for scrap in December 1960.

Both engines have a special meaning to me as No. 60 was the first locomotive I ever climbed on as a kid in the early 1950s and No. 629 was the last steam locomotive I saw in revenue service in Greeley, Colorado, in March 1959.


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