During the blue hour on the evening of November 17, 2014, Rio Grande 2-8-2 K-37 No. 491 simmers on the turntable at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado. The big Mikado (for three-foot... (more)
Denver & Rio Grande Western K-37 2-8-2 no. 491 leading an eastbound extra freight train up Cumbres Pass at Windy Point, New Mexico, in July 1961. Photograph by more)
DRGW 491 looks good. So does the Coors reefer to the right, just a few hundred yards from its home rails.
Welcoming visitors to the museum is 491 and a boxcar from Coors across the street...
No. 491 was built as a standard gauge 2-8-0 in 1902. It was rebuilt into a narrow gauge 2-8-2 in 1928.
Slumbering in the Sun
