It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is of locomotive 683 at the Colorado Railroad Museum. It is a Consolidation type 2-8-0 wheel arrangement and was built in 1890. It is a special locomotive as it is the only remaining standard gauge locomotive from the Denver and Rio Grande Western. They were converting their mainline over to standard gauge so this locomotive was one of the first to be purchased. It operated there until 1955 and then was acquired by the museum in 1963. All the other standard gauge locomotives from the D&RGW were scrapped.
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