Railroad Bingo
Equipment
Equipment
Locomotives on the Denver & Rio Grande were powered by steam and were often called hogs by their crews. The locomotive in the image above (catalog number 95.16.8, taken by Robert B. Graham in 1938 at the Durango Depot) is a Mikado Class K-28 built by the American Locomotive Works in 1923.
The tender is the car right behind the locomotive that carries coal and water. Locomotives like the 470 need between 5 and 7 tons of coal for a roundtrip to Silverton. Some of the tenders have a doghouse which provides shelter in bad weather for train crew members. The image below (catalog number 03.58.33) shows locomotive number 495, a Mikado class K-37 locomotive with a doghouse on the tender.
Sometimes the railroad would run a double header with two locomotives to pull more cars, often uphill. The image below (catalog number 86.3.6) shows a double header on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad west of Durango.
