Today, I spent several Hours at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado, and Made Sure to Document this engine well in Photographs.
2-8-0 #191 is a 1880 Baldwin Built, 3ft Gauge Steam Locomotive that ran in the Colorado Rockies on the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad. It was Previously Numbered 51, but was Renumbered after the DSP & P was Re-Organized (With Union Pacific's Involvement,) into the Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway.
After many years of Use, it was Promptly Sold to a Wisconsin Lumber Company in 1902, leaving behind it's Home Railroad which Slowly became Defunct in Colorado & Southern's Hands.
Several Decades Later, #191 came back to Colorado to the the CRRM, still bearing her Enormous Congdon Smokestack, a Trademark of the DSP & P, which also Built their Own Headlamps.
Now, #191, the Oldest Steam Locomotive on Colorado, is proudly on Display next to the Main Station/Gift Shop, Lettered D & LG, but still a South Park Locomotive at Heart...
#191 is the Last 'Official' Denver, South Park & Pacific Steam Locomotive in the World. I obsess over this engine because it is one of the Few Remnants of one of the Best Railroads in Colorado, which once had Trackage through my old Hometown of Bailey, Colorado...
I call her the Old Lady of the Rockies...
2-8-0 #191 is a 1880 Baldwin Built, 3ft Gauge Steam Locomotive that ran in the Colorado Rockies on the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad. It was Previously Numbered 51, but was Renumbered after the DSP & P was Re-Organized (With Union Pacific's Involvement,) into the Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway.
After many years of Use, it was Promptly Sold to a Wisconsin Lumber Company in 1902, leaving behind it's Home Railroad which Slowly became Defunct in Colorado & Southern's Hands.
Several Decades Later, #191 came back to Colorado to the the CRRM, still bearing her Enormous Congdon Smokestack, a Trademark of the DSP & P, which also Built their Own Headlamps.
Now, #191, the Oldest Steam Locomotive on Colorado, is proudly on Display next to the Main Station/Gift Shop, Lettered D & LG, but still a South Park Locomotive at Heart...
#191 is the Last 'Official' Denver, South Park & Pacific Steam Locomotive in the World. I obsess over this engine because it is one of the Few Remnants of one of the Best Railroads in Colorado, which once had Trackage through my old Hometown of Bailey, Colorado...
I call her the Old Lady of the Rockies...
:wave:
