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Western Railroad Discussion > Stored at Alamosa, CO, ex-LS&I 18Date: 10/19/20 03:27 Stored at Alamosa, CO, ex-LS&I 18 Author: cozephyr San Luis & Rio Grande RR keeps the former Lake Superior & Ishpeming #18, 2-8-0 Consolidation built by Alco, safely inside the Alamosa, CO, shop building. It's sub-lettered SDCX for Sandton Capitol which has it up for sale. Note SLRG 100 E-unit is stored nearby.
Passenger car is ex-Milwaukee Road COFFEE CREEK once co-owned by the late John Arbuckle. Images taken with permission October 2020 at Alamosa, Colorado. In 1935, the Milwaukee Road introduced the original Hiawatha between Chicago, Milwaukee, and the Twin Cities with much acclaim. The new trains covered 420 miles in just seven hours. Their equipment included the popular "Tip-Top-Tavern" and the distinctive "Beaver Tail" lounge observation cars. Of the 10 Skytop cars, four parlor-style cars were built by the Milwaukee Road and six sleeper-style cars were built by Pullman Standard. The parlor-style cars were outfitted with just one drawing room and 24 parlor seats, while the sleeper-style Skytop cars featured eight bedrooms and a 19-seat lounge area. There were also some subtle differences that could be seen on the exterior of the cars. The sleeping accommodations had paired window arrangements, the larger lounge area required an extra course of windows in the Skytop, and the silver band around the rear of the car was fluted rather than smooth, mirroring the fluted nose treatment on the Erie-built diesels originally assigned to pull the Olympian Hiawatha. Since they were designed more for overnight long-distance travel, the six sleeper-style Skytop cars were used on the Olympian Hiawatha, which operated between Chicago Union Station and Tacoma, Washington. Likewise, the four parlor-style cars, which were designed for shorter travel in-mind, were used on the Twin Cities Hiawatha, which operated between Chicago Union Station and the Twin Cities. The six sleeper cars were part of the creek series. Each sleeper was given a creek name: Adler Creek, Arrow Creek, Coffee Creek, Gold Creek, Marble Creek and Spanish Creek. The parlor cars were named after rapids: Cedar Rapids, Coon Rapids, Dell Rapids and Priest Rapids. These were placed into service between November 1948 and January 1949.    Date: 10/19/20 03:35 SLRG 100 Stored at Alamosa, CO, October 2020 Author: cozephyr San Luis & Rio Grande (SLRG) 100, E9A, rests inside the Alamosa, CO, three track shop building. The 100 was built December 1949 as Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 9938-A, E8A.
Former Mount Hood 89, GP9, nee-Milwaukee Road 306, GP9, is stored next to SLRG 100 as seen in October 2020. The 89 came from the Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Railway (California) to Colorado in February 2019. Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 10/19/20 03:54 by cozephyr.    Date: 10/19/20 03:58 Business Car Stored at Alamosa, CO, October 2020 Author: cozephyr Central Railroad of Virginia business car Whippoorwill owned by Ken Bitten is stored inside SLRG's Alamosa, Colorado, Shop, October 2020.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/19/20 04:06 by cozephyr.    Date: 10/19/20 05:50 Re: Business Car Stored at Alamosa, CO, October 2020 Author: GPutz Thanks for posting these interesting pictures. Gerry
Date: 10/19/20 08:11 Re: Business Car Stored at Alamosa, CO, October 2020 Author: Jbarton Thank you for sharing these interesting photos. It's really sad what has happened to this railroad and while I have some photos, I would have liked to have gone down another time to photograph their steam operation and when the E-unit was running.
Jim Barton Date: 10/19/20 08:25 Re: Business Car Stored at Alamosa, CO, October 2020 Author: dan The e unit was used not that long ago, on a train of stored coal cars on one end, going up towards monte vista, you see the line on this cam, but movements are rare https://www.viaero.com/community/live-weather-videos/alamosa-co
Date: 10/19/20 09:19 Re: Business Car Stored at Alamosa, CO, October 2020 Author: rrpreservation Thanks for sharing your photos and insights!!!
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