[Attachment(s) from
LZadnichek@aol.com included below]
February 18,
2015
Hol - I've had the attached image in my digital Archive for a long time
and never thought much about it until your recent comments on Q steam power
leased to the D&RGW. The image is identified as C&S No. 912
at Sedalia, CO, in 1949. No other information. Nothing in the background other
than a Rio Grande box car to indicate a location. I recall that Sedalia is on
the D&RGW, not the C&S. Could this image be of a C&S steam
locomotive that was later leased or loaned to the D&RGW following the
Q locomotives during World War Two? Or, do you think the image is
misidentified? Would appreciate your comments. Thanks - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
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Now for the "other" western road that briefly leased locomotives from the
Q. Late in 1942 and all through 1943 the D&RGW found itself
extremely short of motive power and reached far afield to obtain additional
locomotives. Last year I posted shots of a pair of DM&IR 2-8-8-4
Yellowstones working freights west to Denver over the Q while enroute to the
Rio Grande. But during the final months of 1942 and the first half of
1943 the Grande leased five Burlington O-1-As and a single O-2-A. They
were used primarily in Denver- Pueblo service over the Joint Line and the
attached image depicts Rio Grande C-48 Consolidation 1162 working as a
Denver-Palmer Lake helper ahead of Q Mike 4999 on a 69-car freight
photographed near Castle Rock, Colo., while on its way to Pueblo on the first
day of 1943.
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