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| The new Stockton & Ione locomotive is now in the yard at Holden. |
Although the narrow gauge Stockton & Ione Railroad is not a major part of the S&C project, I would like to make some progress on that part of the layout. Last month, when my wife and I were in Durango, Colorado, I visited Soundtraxx where they showed me their new quasi-1890s locomotive. It's based on their C-19 locos but somewhat backdated with a diamond stack, era-correct smokebox cover and Russian iron boiler jacket. It's not truly correct but they have been testing the waters for older equipment and have found the market receptive. It's really a nice smooth-running engine with a lot of possibilities so I bought one for the S&I.
My plans for the loco are to shorten the smokebox, remove the dynamo, relocate the air pump and tender air cylinder. I may possibly add an older cab and more rivet detail on the stack. The S&I only had two locos in its short life and neither were 2-8-0s but neither did it get all the way to Ione.
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| Using this and another original Mason drawing should help recreate the S&I locomotive Amador. |
Speaking of S&I locos, I also managed to locate two original drawings for the S&I engine
Amador. It was an 0-6-4T Mason bogie. This was a great find as I don't have any photos of this loco as the
Amador and the boiler is a bit different than what I thought it would be.
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| Code 40 and 55 flex track is being amassed adjacent to the almost-abandoned S&I grade east of Holden. |
The National Narrow Gauge Convention is going to be here in Kansas City in 2014 and the committee asked to have my railroad on the layout tours. I agreed and decided that I should get at least some operating narrow gauge on the layout so, as the
Stockton Daily Independent said "Rails and ties are being stockpiled at the S&I junction switch east of Holden. It looks like the narrow gauge project may still have some life in it."
Don
ReplyDeleteIt might be fun to get the S&I running with all of the interchange possibilities. Are you going have the interchange track on a trestle or is the interchange going to be laborers shoveling ore out of the NG into the SG cars? The CM had two different interchange operations with the DSP&P going on at Newett at the "narrows" in Trout Creek Canyon. In one case it was Baldwin coal going into Leadville and in the case it was Baldwin Coal routed to Cripple Creek on the CM and MT. That must of been an interesting waybill with three roads involved in the delivery of the product. Ione was strictly ore, wasn't it?
I'd be VERY interested in seeing some detailed scans of these drawings.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I can tell from the one in this blog, it looks like drawings represent when the "Amador" was converted from the as built 0-4-4 "Amador" to the 0-6-4 that eventually went to Seattle & Walla Walla (aka the "A. A. Denny").
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"Speaking of S&I locos, I also managed to locate two original drawings for the S&I engine Amador. It was an 0-6-4T Mason bogie. This was a great find as I don't have any photos of this loco as the Amador and the boiler is a bit different than what I thought it would be."