Re: [CBQ] C&S 2-8-0s #69, 70

[Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com]

I don't know about the 70 but the 69 actually did and does as we speak operate 
on the WP&Y....I rode behind the 73 just one month ago...Saw the 69 sitting 
outside the shop...Trainmen sez they use it when they run two trains....73 will 
handle 6 cars..we had five the day we rode..69 will only handle 4 and requires 
a water stop half way up the hill...

We bought a video titled...THE WHITE PASS journey...Lots of good historical 
footage of early day operation and steam operation in the 50's 

Pete









-----Original Message-----
From: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 12:14 pm
Subject: [CBQ] C&S 2-8-0s #69, 70


 

I like to acquire some history on each of the locomotives I model in HOn3
and On3. I have a PFM HOn3 model of C&S 2-8-0 #70, which was the only C&S
narrow gauge oil burner with a tender from CB&Q #537 in Oct 1931. It was
sold to the US Army in April 1943 to be used on the White Pass & Yukon
during WWII and scrapped at Seattle in Jan 1946. What happened to C&S #69
and #70 in Alaska, if they actually made it that far? Did they actually
operate on the WP&Y?
- John Manion
RGMHS Exhibit Coordinator

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