Georgetown Loop Railroad Engine No. 9

First Trial Runs of the new Engine No. 9 of the Georgetown Loop Railroad.

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[jmanstar24]

#9 doesn't look like a real steam engine to me... just it's looks

[dcnelson1167]

trust me it's real. What's most interesting is that this engine isn't working well right now and is in the shop as of earlier this summer. I hope the new gtown loop is able to get their gear running for 2009.

[Chatzi473]

sadly 9 might not run again there at the loop

[dcnelson1167]

Any reason given for why this engine might not make it. I've always been suspicious that it might be either underpowered or simply has a boiler that is too far gone. this has happened at some other railroads as well including the mid-continent railroad in wisconsin dells, wi.

[CandS74]

Yes, the #9 was stored on Morning Star Spur for 16 years before being pulled off and "restored". Is there no sound with this video, or am I just missing something?

[dcnelson1167]

No sounds - this video was shot with a very basic camera with a 20 second movie function. I used Microsoft's home video editor to piece this together. I didn't get to ride the Georgetown Loop when I shot this video because I was late for the last train.

[suburbanshicken]

@dcnelson1167 my dad is the conductor on this and engine 9 has been shipped off and never will run again. although, this is terrivle :(, we are getting a new steam engine number 42 it sounds good :)

[southparkline1]

@btomimatsucunard Doubtful 111 will ever return to Breck, History Colorado now owns it and is restoring it for the loop. The agreement was History Colorado would take ownership of 111 if Breck got a locomotive in return. Instead of restoring #9 and beating it to death, they swapped it with Breck for the much larger 111. Although History Colorado still owns the #9, it is on "long term loan" to Breck, aka permanent display. The good news is, the last C&S 2-6-0 will be fully preserved.

[btomimatsucunard]

@southparkline1 So will the #9 be returned to the georgetown loop and fully restored when the #111 is returned to Brecks?

[southparkline1]

@dcnelson1167 It is on Display at the rotary snow plow park in Breckenridge on a long term lease in return for brecks 111. Brecks 2-8-0 111 is much bigger and C&S #9 is tired and in a beat up condition. They ran it with a cracked cylinder saddle which you can imagine got only worse along with the boiler. At least it will be preserved in Breck under a shelter rather than on a spur rusting away.

[southparkline1]

Well to answer questions, #9 is being restored in Palisades co for display in Breckenridge. It could possibly fired up in Breck and rolled back and forth once and a while. #9 will be the first C&S loco in breck since the 69 and 58 pulled up the rails as they headed up over boreas pass. For once a former Denver South Park and Pacific locomotive will be in a town that it commonly served. This is a fact, the #9 did run on the loop during the C&S days but not often, much more common on the sp line

[Chatzi473]

well from what i hear the F**Ked up the restorations and did not do it the right way in the first place. Instead the cut corners and that, so in reality it was not suppose to run without some more work done to it but in stead they half assed it and it died after the one and only season it was used in.