Power type Steam Build date 1883 UIC class 2′C n2 Year built 1883 Current owner Alamosa | Serial number 7028 Configuration 4-6-0 Gauge 3 ft (914 mm) Builder Baldwin Locomotive Works Added to NRHP 12 March 2001 | |
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Denver and Rio Grande Western No. 169 is a 4-6-0, Ten Wheeler type, narrow gauge steam railway locomotive. It is one of twelve similar locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1883. It was built as a passenger locomotive, with 46 in (1,200 mm) drivers, the second largest drivers used on any three foot gauge D&RGW locomotive. (The K-37s which were originally standard gauge have 55 in (1,400 mm) drivers.)
During its operational life it was used on all of the major D&RGW narrow gauge lines. It appears in two Otto Perry photographs on the branch to Santa Fe, New Mexico in April 1933. It was taken out of service in 1938 and then refurbished in 1939 to appear at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In 1941, the railroad donated it to the City of Alamosa and it has been in Cole Park there since. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Locomotive No.169 in 2001.