Beginning in the summer of 1937 and extending through the summer tourist traffic seasons of 1937, '38 and'39, the C&S leased a pair of B-1-A Mountains from the Q for passenger service between Denver and Amarillo. Engines 7009, 7010, 7013 7019 and 7020 were the locomotives employed, though never more than two at a time. All were coal-burners. Attached is a Dick Kindig view of the 7019 heading north with No. 8, the
Gulf Coast Special, at Pikeview, Colo., just north of Colorado Springs, on the evening of June 17, 1939.
This Otto Perry photo shows the 7009 stopped at the Trinidad, Colo., depot on June 26, 1938, with the seven cars of southbound No. 7:
http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/46397/rec/5 Another Otto Perry photo, this one finds the coal-burning 7020 on the point of No. 27 (trains 7-8 used the numbers 27-28 on the Joint Line between Denver and Pueblo) leaving Denver with nine cars on July 17, 1937. The big Mountain is flying green flags, indicating a second section following, probably a tourist special destined for Colorado Springs:
http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/46469/rec/2 During the final year of WWII passenger traffic over the C&S-FW&D south of Denver became so heavy, and there were so many troop trains, that even with several Pacifics freed up by the 1940 inauguration of the Texas Zephyr, there was not enough heavy power available to handle the traffic. Double-heading the heavy Pacifics was not a viable solution, as there was an extreme shortage of operating crews with so many men off in the service of their country. So in the spring of 1944 the Q sent a pair of B-1 Mountains to the C&S to ease the situation. The 7003 and 7005 remained on the C&S through late 1945, after the war's end. And they were joined in June 1945 by three B-1-As leased to the FW&D: 7014, 7019 and 7020, which also remained until late in 1945. The two B-1s were coal-burners and thus restricted to service north of Childress. But the 7014, 7019 and 7020 had just been converted to burn oil and thus could be used the entire distance between Denver and Fort Worth.
Otto Perry captured the 7003 hauling the nine cars of No. 8, the
Gulf Coast Special, north of Trinidad, Colo., on the afternoon of June 16, 1945:
http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/46350/rec/7 Over a year earlier, on May 18, 1944, Otto had caught the other B-1, 7005, with the southbound counterpart, No. 7, departing the Denver area near sundown with seven cars at 25 miles per hour:
http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/46403/rec/5 Finally, the attached view of the 7020 at the C&S Seventh Street roundhouse in Denver, taken on March 6, 1945, shows the locomotive newly converted to burn oil and at work on the western subsidiaries three months before it was listed on assignment sheets as leased to the FW&D.
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