JACK5008@w... wrote:
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> I was looking through the Burlington Route photo collection of the
> Denver Public Library. Some steam photos indicated narrow gauge.
>
> Can someone give us some details on the CB&Q narrow gauge?
>
That's asking alot <LOL> -
The reference you would have found in Denver most likely dealt with the
C&S narrow gauge lines, which were, of course CB&Q subsidiaries.
There were other CB&Q-owned narrow gauge lines: The Burlington &
Western/Burlington & Northwestern running north & west out of
Burlington, Iowa, and standard-gauged before absorption as CB&Q branch
lines; the Fulton County Narrow Gauge in Illinois; the Des Moines &
Kansas City, also standard-gauged before absorption into the CB&Q, etc.
I think the only narrow gauge operations actually under the CB&Q name
were the Black Hills roads in South Dakota, which connected to the
Spearfish branch and survived until about 1930. The last survivor of
the Black Hills locomotives was 537 (an outside-frame 2-8-0), which was
leased to the C&S narrow gauge operations during the 30s, still bearing
its CB&Q lettering & #.
Does any of that fit what you found?
Marshall
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