It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! We go back to the Colorado RR Museum today and look at Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 683. This Consolidation type 2-8-0 was built in 1890 by Baldwin as Narrow gauge #583. It was later converted to Standard Gauge built for the first standard gauge line between Denver and Salt Lake City. It served until the mid 1950s when it was sold to the San Luis Valley Southern Rwy which allowed it to escape the D&RGW scrapping plan. #683 is the only standard gauge locomotive that remains from the D&RGW. It's looking pretty good but will need some cosmetic work soon due to be stored out on the elements. It would be nice if the museum could get more equipment under cover. They are slowly working on it which is good.
Surprised it worked into the '50's (But I guess that was a long time ago, although I don't recall many steam locomotives back then, but I was on the young side....)
ReplyDeleteSteam was transitioning and there was not a lot of them any longer. Only a few railroads stuck with them into the early 60s.
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