RE: [CBQ] First Train Through Big Horn Basin

["Harold Huber" <sarge9@bresnan.net>]

Louis,
It would not have been through the Big Horn Basin as the portion through the
Wind River Canyon was the last completed and that was around 1922.  Trains
went to Thermopolis and Stage Coached over the Owl Creek Mountains to
Bonneville and on to Casperand reverse for the Casper traffic.  Kuby would
be a mispell for Kirby. North of Thermopolis.
Harold Huber
Ultimate Research, LLC
Sheridan, WY
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  Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:46 PM
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  Subject: [CBQ] First Train Through Big Horn Basin




  February 18, 2014

  While on the subject of Lines West photographs taken by John Barriger, I
found the attached image elsewhere on the Web showing CB&Q Class K-2 No. 640
(former B&MR No. 312). The image was identified as the first train though
Big Horn Basin to Kuby, WY, 1890.

  The date is incorrect as the 640 was built for the B&MR by Rogers in
December 1892. Plus, it wasn't renumbered to CB&Q 640 until 1904. Thus, the
image had to been taken after 1904. Also, some of the clothing styles in
this image look to be more like the 1910 to 1920 era. Could this image have
recorded a later reenactment of the first train through the Big Horn Basin?
Also, where was/is Kuby, WY?

  Louis Zadnichek II
  Fairhope, AL