Georgetown Loop RR 2023

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Its been a record setting wet spring and early summer.
a few days ago, i treated myself to a trip to the mountains and day hike. Roads and trails were as empty as I remember in 1972 due to on/off rain.

and, a ride and mine tour.

An outside framed 2-8-0 baldwin.
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an unusual cart, non original to the mine.
oddly, it has a crude g scale loop and 2 mine portals

Noteworthy, to me in my many decades of riding trains, a woman brakeman.

GLRR no longer has the 3 truck Westside shay.
it had 3 rod locos, none indigenous to the historic rr, and 4-5 diesels.


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Birdseye fromthe Devils Gate bridge of the Georgetown station siding.
creek is unusually high with rain and snow melt.
Air smelled of pines and rain and steam engine exhaust….
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It could be argued that you were more interested in someone else's outside frame than the Baldwin :cool::cool:

How does the Baldwin compare to Bachmann's Connie?
 
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Birdseye fromthe Devils Gate bridge of the Georgetown station siding.
creek is unusually high with rain and snow melt.
Air smelled of pines and rain and steam engine exhaust….
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Did the GL in 1994 on a mega tour including lots of Colorado Railways and Museums. Before current operators of the GT, loco was a Shay back then but not such interesting brakesperson.
 
Alas, my true, dog-like nature has not yet fully faded with age. And is transparent, it seems, from my photos.....

nonetheless, a splendid day out

i do not own the B-Mann Connie, so i am not as familiar with its details as if i did own one, and what recollection i have is from decades ago (I passed on the Connie at the time, had a bad taste from my original 36t Shay with it original plastic trucks. ANd , it seems the Connie had gear issues?? and some issue re the footplate and the tender -loco distance and accommodating curves??? it is otherwise a very appealing , if non-Colorado NG loco. My later manufactured B-Mann locos are superb, but stupidly delicate).

The GRR Baldwin, #40, is similar. I believe it is a standard gauge loco regauged to 3ft.

I do know that #40 came from South America, and it seems to me that the Connie was also based on a Central/South American Baldwin. The Connie's smoke box center mount headlight was common on Mexican NG steam, and apparently, elsewhere south of the border too.
 
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