This narrow gauge 2-8-0 Consolidation, CS #75, was built by the Brooks Locomotive Works in June of 1898 as Colorado & NorthWestern #31. It then went to the Denver, Boulder & Western as their #31. The loco (and its sister 32) were sold to the Morse Brothers Machinery & Supply Co who then sold them to C&S as CS #75. Eventually the loco was sold to Cerro de Pasco Copper Co of Lima, Peru in 1948 and served there unti the mid-1960's. Specs - serial #2969, class B-4-F-pv, Ridgway Stack (long pipe that took the smoke and cinders down to the trackside.). Harold Vollrath photo |