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Date: 06/01/20 20:04
Can you picture people hanging all over an engine?
Author: PlyWoody

How about a unique engine such as the one in the plan centerspread of both March/April 2020 and May/June 2020 Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette.

Newspaper clip:  “The railroad company carry the cattle men between the stockyard and city free of charge.  The yard engine “Vulcan” as she runs back and forth is as full as a Philadelphia street car during the Centennial”
Colorado Daily Chieftain December 3, 1876. [Pueblo]
Translation:
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway will permit the cattlemen working in the stock yard to freely climb on and hold tight while they travel to and from Pueblo (possibly Denver) on the assigned yard engine which is the “Mountaineer” a 0-4-4-0 double ended engine built by Vulcan Foundry of Lincolnshire, Great Brittan that was received as a gift June 20, 1873.  The Philadelphia street car during U.S. 100th Centennial might have had people hanging all over the car like an Indian local commuter train.  This is not to be confused with the Vulcan Iron works of San Francisco, or the Vulcan Iron Works of Durango, Colorado.
 



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