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CS 2-8-0ng #58 - Colorado & Southern |
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Here's another view of CS #58 with the unusual Ridgway Stack - an unusual modification that was a tall pipe led from the rhomboid spark-arresting cap on the stack itself down to the trackbed. Harold Vollrath photo. |
| Photo Date: |
5/1/1931 Upload Date: 5/3/2021 6:05:55 AM |
| Location: |
Como, CO |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
CS 58(2-8-0) |
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326 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CS 2-8-0 ng #58 - Colorado & Southern |
| Description: |
Built by Rhode Island in 1887 as Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf #261, it landed on the Colorado & Southern roster when CS took over the UPDG in 1899. The loco had an unusual modification. A tall pipe led from the rhomboid spark-arresting cap on the stack itself down to the trackbed. It turns out that the stack is a patented apparatus is called the Ridgway Stack. The purpose was to keep any stray cinders from setting fire to the highly combustible right of way. Specs - D-4-c class, 37" drivers, modest 150 psi boiler pressure, 16x18" cylinders, light engine weight of 71,030 lb, small tractive effort of 21,172 lb. All in the class were scrapped in the 1920's except #58 which lasted unti April of 1939. Harold Vollrath photo |
| Photo Date: |
5/1/1937 Upload Date: 5/3/2021 6:05:50 AM |
| Location: |
Denver, CO |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
CS 58(2-8-0) |
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267 Comments: 0 |
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