What roads other than the D&RGW used the USRA 2-6-6-2 Mallet ?.
TL
Actually, the D&RGW didn’t use USRA 2-6-6-2’s. IIRC, only the W&LE (later part of NKP) and the C&O used them.
However, Rio Grande did have some USRA 2-8-8-2’s. http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00009881
Andre
Only thirty 2 6 6 2 's of the USRA were listed as built by the USRA for railroads.
The C&O received twenty and the Wheeling & Lake Erie got the other ten… The W&LE became NKP .
My list could be incorrect, but the D&RGW was not listed as USRA originals but might have got copies later.
Thanks Andre. So where did those the Rio Grande had come from ?.
TL
The D&RGW did NOT have USRA 2-6-6-2 engines. Only something like 30 were built;
W&LE(10) and C&O(20) had originals or copies of the engines.
The D&RGW L-62 and L-76 class 2-6-6-2’s are different. Here is the URL to Rio Grande steam engines. Review the pictures and make up you own mind…
http://ghostdepot.com/rg/rolling%20stock/locomotive/drgw1939roster.htm
Jim Bernier
Thank you Jim. Okay, so no other roads used the 2-6-6-2 whether they were USRA, L-62 or L-76 class ?. I’m probably wrong, but I thought a read somewhere one time where Santa Fe had 2-6-6-2s…
TL
Okay. I stumbled up on the answer to my question about the Santa Fe 2-6-6-2s… They were the 3300 class, they had 24 of them, they were made by Baldwin in 1911 and had all been scrapped by 1934.
Thanks anyway guys. I very much appreciate the info and input.
TL
Several railroads had 2-6-6-2 engines - mainly small ones. GN/NP/CB&Q all had similar ones. Nothing as big as the USRA engines…Per the pictures in the URL I sent you, the Rio Grande units are a lot older(note the front cylinders). You might want to number them on top of the L62 or L76 series and rate them as L80 series(at least a ‘could be’ engine). A good paint job and most folks will not notice!
Jim Bernier
Thanks Jim, but I’m too much of a perfectionist anymore. If it’s not 99.9% prototypically correct it would bug the hell out of me. Also, if I can’t buy what I’m looking for off the shelf with a factory paint job already on it I’ll just have to live without it. Though I’m not bad at all when it comes to detail painting locos or rolling stock, I no longer have the patients to do so…
And so. That concludes my interest in 2-6-6-2 locos.
TL