Great Western 60, 75. 90

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:41 pm

More old friends from Colorado.

60 at Loveland in the 1950s, pre-58 as it has the graphite smokebox:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... 6/gw60.jpg

75 stored at Loveland, 6/23/63:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... gw75_2.jpg

90 at Loveland, 10/24/58:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... 6/gw90.jpg

Mgoldman · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:05 pm

Thanks for finding and posting these gems, Bob.

Here's a view of Great Western #90 as she appears
now at Strasburg, PA at the Strasburg RR. It's great
to see such engines still under steam.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 02&nseq=39

Quite different then your 1958 link, notice now the slight
change in livery (no diamond under the cab and different
livery on the tender), as well as what appears to be a lack
of paint on the drivers. And, the big difference - seems
#90 is a dome short of 3!

Anyone know what the missing dome was for? It looks like
an auxilary sand dome?

What period livery currently adorns #90 at Strasburg?

/Mitch

Scott Kwiatkowski · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:13 pm

Bob,

#60 has just had her tubes and flues put in and the throttle went in a week and a half ago.

Check out http://brrht.org/current_projects.html

Scott

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

Scott -

It looks as if number 60, unlike the Decapod at Strasburg, will be keeping her smokebox extension. BRAVO, BR&W!

Les

Kelly Anderson · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:52 am **Posts:** 2477

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:53 pm

According to the Denver Public Library site, that photo was taken October 30, 1937, by Otto Perry. The old enginehouse in the background burned in 1940 and No. 90 was used to pull some of the other engines out from the fire.