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CS 2-8-0ng #58 - Colorado & Southern
Title:  CS 2-8-0ng #58 - Colorado & Southern
Description:  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)
Views:  829   Comments: 0
CS 2-8-0 ng #58 - Colorado & Southern
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)
Views:  1003   Comments: 0
CS 2-8-0 #60 - Colorado Southern
Title:  CS 2-8-0 #60 - Colorado Southern
Description:  Alco-Rhode Island, 3/1886 nee-Utah & Northern 2-8-0n #263, In September of 1890, it moved over to the Denver, Leadville & Gunnison roster as their #263. Upon retirement in May of 1941, it was put on permanent display in Idaho Springs, CO. Original specs - 3' narrow gauge, 37" drivers, modest 150 psi boiler pressure, 16x18" cylinders, very modest engine weight of 71,030 lb and very modest tractive effort of 15,816 lb. No photographer was listed for the photo.
Photo Date:  5/18/1941  Upload Date: 7/23/2025 9:28:54 AM
Location:  Idaho Springs, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 60
Title:  Colorado & Southern 60
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/25/1942  Upload Date: 7/4/2022 2:35:55 PM
Location:  unknown, CO
Author:  Richard Flebbe
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  632   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 60
Title:  Colorado & Southern 60
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/25/1942  Upload Date: 7/4/2022 2:35:56 PM
Location:  unknown, CO
Author:  Richard Flebbe
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  656   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 60
Title:  Colorado & Southern 60
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/25/1942  Upload Date: 7/4/2022 2:35:57 PM
Location:  unknown, CO
Author:  Richard Flebbe
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  639   Comments: 0
CS 60 in 1951
Title:  CS 60 in 1951
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1951  Upload Date: 5/26/2006 8:46:22 PM
Location:  Idaho Springs, CO
Author:  Vern Wigfield
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  2568   Comments: 1
C&S 60 in 1951
Title:  C&S 60 in 1951
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1954  Upload Date: 5/26/2006 8:45:47 PM
Location:  Idaho Springs, CO
Author:  Vern Wigfield
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  2275   Comments: 1
C&S B-4-C #60
Title:  C&S B-4-C #60
Description:  Built by Rhode Island Locomotive Works in March 1886, c/n 1595, as Utah & Northern #263, later became Denver Leadville & Gunnison #263 and finally Colorado & Southern #60 [date of photo approximate].
Photo Date:  6/15/1980  Upload Date: 1/2/2012 10:47:24 AM
Location:  Idaho Springs, CO
Author:  B.J. Svikhart
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  1508   Comments: 1
C&S B-4-C #60
Title:  C&S B-4-C #60
Description:  C&S #60 sat on a fragment of the Clear Creek mainline next to a sporting goods shop for the better part of sixty years [date of photo approximate].
Photo Date:  6/15/1980  Upload Date: 1/2/2012 10:47:44 AM
Location:  Idaho Springs, CO
Author:  B.J. Svikhart
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  1685   Comments: 0
C&S B-4-C #60
Title:  C&S B-4-C #60
Description:  Built by Rhode Island Locomotive Works in March 1886, c/n 1595, as Utah & Northern #263, later became Denver Leadville & Gunnison #263 and finally Colorado & Southern #60 [date of photo approximate].
Photo Date:  6/15/1983  Upload Date: 1/2/2012 10:48:45 AM
Location:  Idaho Springs, CO
Author:  B.J. Svikhart
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  1538   Comments: 0
C&S B-4-C #60
Title:  C&S B-4-C #60
Description:  C&S #60 sat on a fragment of the Clear Creek mainline next to a sporting goods shop for the better part of sixty years [date of photo approximate].
Photo Date:  6/15/1983  Upload Date: 1/2/2012 10:49:27 AM
Location:  Idaho Springs, CO
Author:  B.J. Svikhart
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  1354   Comments: 0
C&S #60
Title:  C&S #60
Description:  C&S #60 on display at Idaho Springs CO
Photo Date:  6/15/2005  Upload Date: 9/23/2013 5:01:56 PM
Location:  Idaho Springs, CO
Author:  Don Hinchliffe
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  945   Comments: 0
Colorado and Southern
Title:  Colorado and Southern
Description:  Colorado and Southern Railway's No. 60 sits on siplay at Idaho Springs, CO. It sits just feel from Interstate 70 and in the 14 years I have lived in CO, and the numerous times I've driven past here, I have never seen this.
Photo Date:  11/23/2008  Upload Date: 11/23/2008 8:42:42 PM
Location:  Idaho Springs, CO
Author:  amtrakswchief 4
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  1540   Comments: 0
CS 60
Title:  CS 60
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/14/2010  Upload Date: 10/3/2010 8:37:52 AM
Location:  Idaho Springs, CO
Author:  John K. Pack
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  1335   Comments: 1
C&S 2-8-0 60
Title:  C&S 2-8-0 60
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/11/2019  Upload Date: 7/15/2019 9:44:33 PM
Location:  Idaho Springs, CO
Author:  Wil Hata
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 60(2-8-0)
Views:  1112   Comments: 2
CS 2-8-0ng #75 - Colorado & Southern
Title:  CS 2-8-0ng #75 - Colorado & Southern
Description:  This narrow gauge 2-8-0 Consolidation, CS #75, was built by the Brooks Locomotive Works in June of 1898 as Colorado & NorthWestern #31. It then went to the Denver, Boulder & Western as their #31. The loco (and its sister 32) were sold to the Morse Brothers Machinery & Supply Co who then sold them to C&S as CS #75. Eventually the loco was sold to Cerro de Pasco Copper Co of Lima, Peru in 1948 and served there unti the mid-1960's. Specs - serial #2969, class B-4-F-pv, Ridgway Stack (long pipe that took the smoke and cinders down to the trackside.). Harold Vollrath photo
Photo Date:  9/1/1938  Upload Date: 5/3/2021 6:06:02 AM
Location:  Leadville, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CS 75(2-8-0)
Views:  857   Comments: 0
CS 2-8-0ng #76 - Colorado & Southern
Title:  CS 2-8-0ng #76 - Colorado & Southern
Description:  Built by Brooks in June of 1898 before Brooks joined the ALCo group originally as Colorado & NorthWestern 2-8-0 narrow gauge #32, it became Denver, Boulder & Western #32. Eventually it was sold to the Morse Brothers Machinery & Supply Co who then sold them to Colorado & Southern as their #76. Eventually the loco was re-sold again to Cerro de Pasco Copper Co of Lima, Peru in 1948 and served there unti the mid-1960's. Specs - serial #2970, class B-4-F-pv, 3 foot gauge, 180 psi boiler pressure, 37" drivers, 16x20" cylinders, very modest engine weight of 95,520 lb and very modest tractive effort of 21,170 lb. This is a Harold Vollrath reprint.
Photo Date:  8/1/1947  Upload Date: 8/3/2025 7:23:18 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CS 76(2-8-0)
Views:  389   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 528
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 528
Description:  Taken circa August 1953.
Photo Date:  8/1/1953  Upload Date: 9/1/2025 3:00:54 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 528(2-8-0)
Views:  360   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 531
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 531
Description:  Taken circa August 1953.
Photo Date:  8/1/1953  Upload Date: 9/1/2025 3:09:14 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 531(2-8-0)
Views:  296   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 602
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 602
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/3/1956  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 9:31:23 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 602(2-8-0)
Views:  329   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 602
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 602
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/26/1956  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 9:32:02 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 602(2-8-0)
Views:  345   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 602
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 602
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/18/1958  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 9:32:30 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 602(2-8-0)
Views:  263   Comments: 0
CS 2-8-0 #605 - Colorado & Southern
Title:  CS 2-8-0 #605 - Colorado & Southern
Description:  Here is a sharp looking 2-8-0 Consolidation built by Rhode Island (pre-ALCo membership) in July of 1901 originally as Colorado & Southern #465 (serial #3306) but renumbered CS #605 in June of 1906 and classified as B-4R. It was later rebuilt in 1927. After an impressive 59 years on the CW roster, is was unceremoniously sold for scrap in December of 1960.Rebuilt specs - 57" drivers, 205 psi boiler pressure, 22x28" cylinders, engine wt of 194,180 lb and tractivce force of 41,369 lb. No date, location or photographer was listed for this photo so approximates were used..
Photo Date:  6/1/1935  Upload Date: 11/19/2025 3:16:58 AM
Location:  unknown, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CS 605(2-8-0)
Views:  62   Comments: 0
Tank Switching
Title:  Tank Switching
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/3/1956  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 9:33:09 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 605(2-8-0)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 605
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 605
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/21/1957  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 9:34:03 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 605(2-8-0)
Views:  308   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 608
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 608
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/21/1957  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 9:35:20 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 608(2-8-0)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 608
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 608
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/18/1958  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 9:36:06 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 608(2-8-0)
Views:  227   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 608
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 608
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/18/1958  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 9:36:39 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 608(2-8-0)
Views:  232   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 610
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 610
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/2/1956  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:31:09 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 610(2-8-0)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 610
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 610
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/2/1956  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:32:07 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 610(2-8-0)
Views:  319   Comments: 0
The Face of 619
Title:  The Face of 619
Description:  Taken circa 1953.
Photo Date:  8/1/1953  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:34:02 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 619(2-8-0)
Views:  331   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 619
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 619
Description:  Taken by an unknown photographer during the early 1950s.
Photo Date:  1/1/1954  Upload Date: 10/11/2023 11:23:51 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Unknown
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 619(2-8-0)
Views:  547   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 619
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 619
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/3/1956  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:32:43 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 619(2-8-0)
Views:  319   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 619
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 619
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/3/1956  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:33:22 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 619(2-8-0)
Views:  334   Comments: 0
C&S 2-8-0 619
Title:  C&S 2-8-0 619
Description:  Colorado & Southern 619
Photo Date:  3/9/2022  Upload Date: 3/9/2022 1:07:11 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Bob Andrews
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  CS 619(2-8-0)
Views:  633   Comments: 0
C&S 2-8-0 class B4r 620
Title:  C&S 2-8-0 class B4r 620
Description:  Colorado & Southern Railway class B4r 2-8-0 620 at Wellington, Colorado on December 8, 1957, photographer unknown, 3X5 print scanned from Louis Zadnichek collection. Number 630 was built by Alco-Richmond (c/n 25863) in March 1902 as #480, renumbered to 630 in 1906. The original boiler exploded at Bunker Hill, Colorado on August 31, 1912, and a new boiler from Baldwin (BLW #4837) was installed in October 1912. The locomotive was rebuilt in May 1924 and scrapped in July 1961.
Photo Date:  12/8/1957  Upload Date: 5/15/2023 4:57:22 PM
Location:  Wellington, CO
Author:  unknown
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives:  CS 620(2-8-0)
Views:  618   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 620
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 620
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/18/1958  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:34:38 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 620(2-8-0)
Views:  255   Comments: 0
CS 620's cab - Hill City
Title:  CS 620's cab - Hill City
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 2/19/2023 8:39:25 PM
Location:  Hill City, SD
Author:  C H
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  CS 620(2-8-0)
Views:  595   Comments: 0
CS 2-8-0 #629 - Colorado & Southern
Title:  CS 2-8-0 #629 - Colorado & Southern
Description:  Alco-Brooks built this 2-8-0 Consolidation in July of 1906 as Colorado & Southern #629 (serial #40256, class B-4R). In October of 1925, it was rebuilt. Like many of the CS 2-8-0's, this loco lasted on the CS roster for nearly 54 years before being sold for scrap in December of 1960. Rebuilt specs - 57" drivers, 210 psi boiler pressure, 22x28" cylinders, engine wt of 193,400 lb and tractive force of 42,439 lb. No date, location or photographer was listed for this photo unfortunately.
Photo Date:  6/1/1950  Upload Date: 11/19/2025 3:16:59 AM
Location:  unknown, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CS 629(2-8-0)
Views:  76   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 629
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 629
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/3/1956  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:35:07 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 629(2-8-0)
Views:  352   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 629
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 629
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/30/1957  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:35:34 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 629(2-8-0)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
At the Ready
Title:  At the Ready
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/30/1957  Upload Date: 9/3/2025 9:41:09 PM
Location:  Fort Collins, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 648(2-8-0) CS 909(2-10-2) CS 629(2-8-0)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 629
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 629
Description:  Freshly shopped 2-8-0 629 sits at Denver in August 1957. Although the end of the steam era is near, there was still a little time left for 629.
Photo Date:  8/14/1957  Upload Date: 9/24/2023 7:00:51 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Dave Straight
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 629(2-8-0)
Views:  580   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 629
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 629
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/27/1957  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:36:02 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 629(2-8-0)
Views:  264   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 631
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 631
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/18/1958  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:36:39 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 631(2-8-0)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 632
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 632
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/25/1956  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:39:41 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 632(2-8-0)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 632
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 632
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/25/1956  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:40:13 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 632(2-8-0)
Views:  347   Comments: 0
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 632
Title:  Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 632
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/18/1958  Upload Date: 9/2/2025 10:40:51 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  R. L. Fenwick
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CS 632(2-8-0)
Views:  253   Comments: 0


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