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Georgetown Loop Railroad: #40 7-12-2023.
The first leg of our Colorado trilogy.
On July 12, 2023, we set off on our biggest adventure yet. A tour of the three most popular steam tourist railroads in the state of Colorado. Our first stop was the Georgetown Loop Railroad.
The Georgetown Loop Railroad (GTL) is a 4.5 mile long "3-foot" narrow gauge line that operates between the towns of Georgetown and Silver Plume Colorado. The railroad was the final stretch of the old Georgetown Breckenridge & Leadville Railroad (later to become the Colorado & Southern Railroad). The railroad consists of many curves, cuts, a few bridges, and roughly 4% grade, and actually loops over itself (hence the name "Georgetown Loop") on the "Devils Gate" high bridge. The railroad is roughly an hour outside of Denver, and it's only 45 minutes from the Colorado Railroad Museum. It's a really neat and short railroad that I highly recommend visiting if you are in the Denver area.
The railroad operates many former Colorado native passenger and freight cars, three center cab diesels, and three steam locomotives (at the time of this production, their locomotive 12 (not to be mistaken by another famous 12 that we have all seen by now) is awaiting a major overhaul and currently is missing its wheels). The locomotive we saw was their locomotive #40.
40 was built in 1920 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works as a 3-foot narrow gauge, outside frame 2-8-0 consolidation B4-G class for the International Railways of Central America. She would operate there until the 1960s and was sold to the GTL in the 1970s. After that, she would operate excursions on the GTL (including a brief visit to the White Pass & Yukon Railroad in the early 2000's) until she was retired in 2004. In 2005 she was leased to the Colorado Railroad Museum as a backup engine for their train rides (at the time the only steam locomotive they had was D&RGW #346). She would operate there until the lease expired in 2013. She was placed in storage at the Georgetown Loop Railroad in 2017 and restored back to operating condition two years later. Today, 40 pulls many people up and down the 4% grade at the GTL and in the process puts on one of the best shows I've ever seen with a narrow-gauge locomotive.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of one of my new favorite narrow-gauge steam locomotives!
Georgetown Loop Railroad: #40 7-12-2023.
The first leg of our Colorado trilogy.
On July 12, 2023, we set off on our biggest adventure yet. A tour of the three most popular steam tourist railroads in the state of Colorado. Our first stop was the Georgetown Loop Railroad.
The Georgetown Loop Railroad (GTL) is a 4.5 mile long "3-foot" narrow gauge line that operates between the towns of Georgetown and Silver Plume Colorado. The railroad was the final stretch of the old Georgetown Breckenridge & Leadville Railroad (later to become the Colorado & Southern Railroad). The railroad consists of many curves, cuts, a few bridges, and roughly 4% grade, and actually loops over itself (hence the name "Georgetown Loop") on the "Devils Gate" high bridge. The railroad is roughly an hour outside of Denver, and it's only 45 minutes from the Colorado Railroad Museum. It's a really neat and short railroad that I highly recommend visiting if you are in the Denver area.
The railroad operates many former Colorado native passenger and freight cars, three center cab diesels, and three steam locomotives (at the time of this production, their locomotive 12 (not to be mistaken by another famous 12 that we have all seen by now) is awaiting a major overhaul and currently is missing its wheels). The locomotive we saw was their locomotive #40.
40 was built in 1920 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works as a 3-foot narrow gauge, outside frame 2-8-0 consolidation B4-G class for the International Railways of Central America. She would operate there until the 1960s and was sold to the GTL in the 1970s. After that, she would operate excursions on the GTL (including a brief visit to the White Pass & Yukon Railroad in the early 2000's) until she was retired in 2004. In 2005 she was leased to the Colorado Railroad Museum as a backup engine for their train rides (at the time the only steam locomotive they had was D&RGW #346). She would operate there until the lease expired in 2013. She was placed in storage at the Georgetown Loop Railroad in 2017 and restored back to operating condition two years later. Today, 40 pulls many people up and down the 4% grade at the GTL and in the process puts on one of the best shows I've ever seen with a narrow-gauge locomotive.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of one of my new favorite narrow-gauge steam locomotives!
