Old Train Thursday, Narrow Gauge.

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1962, Rio Grande 2-8-2 #483(K-36) Crosses the Lobato Trestle in New Mexico with Gramps Tank Cars.

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1952 Rio Grande Southern 2-8-0 #42(C-17) Alamosa, Colorado

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1944 Rio Grande Steam Derrick “Op”.

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1968 Rio Grande 2-8-2 #498(K-37) East of Durango, Colorado on the San Juan Extension.

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1958 Rio Grande 2-8-2 #483(K-36) over Cumbre Pass in Alamosa, Colorado.

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1960 Rio Grande 2-8-2 #491(K-37) takes on water in Alamosa, Colorado.

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Rio Grande Southern 2-8-2 #461 and #452 at the Roundhouse shop in Ridgeway, Colorado.

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1968 Rio Grande 2-8-0 #74, Excursion Train at Vance Junction, Colorado.

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1949 Rio Grande “Galloping Goose” #4 at Placerville, Colorado.

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1951 Rio Grande Southern Business Car “Edna” (B-20) with gondolas and two cabooses at a layover by the water tank in Telluride, Colorado.

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1999 Eureka & Palisades Railroad 4-4-0 #4 built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in July 1875. Photo taken on the Durango & Silverton Railway track.

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1949 Eureka & Palisades Railroad Parlor and Observation car.









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1955 East Tennessee & Western North Carolina RR2-8-0 #207, built in 1904.

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1971 East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company 2-8-2 #14 at Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania.

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1971 East Broad Top 2-8-2 #17 at Orbisonia, Pennsylvania.



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1971 East Broad Top’s Roundhouse at Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania with tenders.

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Uintab Railways 2-6-6-2T Mallet Mogul #50, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1926.

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1965 White Pass & Yukon RR RSD39 at Bennett, British Columbia.



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1973 White Pass & Yukon RR 90-Class “Shovelnose” #99 at Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.

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1961 Elk River Coal & Lumber Company, three truck, 65 ton Shay #19, built in 1905 fords Lilly Fork Creek in Clay County, West Virginia.

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1964 Klickitat Logging & Lumber Company three truck Shay #7 dumps logs in the mill pond at Klickitat, Washington.















1971 East Broad Top RR Station Depot, Rock Hill, Pennsylvania.

10 thoughts on “Old Train Thursday, Narrow Gauge.”

  1. Neat shots of the narrow gauge engines. Currently, after the demise of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, engines 463, 484, 487, 488, & 489 live at the Cumbres & Toltec and engines 473, 476, 478, 480, 481, 482, 486, 493, & 498 live at the Durango & Silverton.

    • That is just about all the description or commentary that came with the picture. Perhaps the track was on dry ground and creek overflowed it’s banks and the trackage still has solid footing underneath so the train could continue to use it. It was only pulling 5 car loads of logs.

        • GD! That was a cool article, thanks for looking that up! I read the whole thing and was amazed at what these guys did logging and no OSHA around, imagine they couldn’t do that today? They would have had them build bridges over those streams! and talk about how dangerous that was.

          • Yeah, that entire website was interesting.

            No way the enviro agencies would allow that today.

            • Back then the loggers and engine men would stop work and kick some enviro weinie/terrorist/tree hugger backsides. They wouldn’t put up with that nonsense, they a job to do and a family to feed.

          • Oh, and somewhere on that site I read that that actual locomotive in your pic is still in existence but not functional. In Ohio I think it said.

  4. Bennett Lake on the White pass was a crew change point between American crews from Skagway and Canuck crews from Whitehorse.

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