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D&RGW Class M-68 4-8-4s D&RGW Class M-68 #1804

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Date: 10 Oct 2006
Size: 6 items
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DRGW 1804 suffered a boiler explosion just north of the Burnham Shops in Denver, CO, on 4-Feb-1941
Date: 01 Jan 2008
Owner: Nathan Holmes Collection
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A look at the boiler explosion wreck, complete with the K-59 that was coupled to it at the time.
Date: 01 Jan 2008
Owner: Nathan Holmes Collection
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Another look at the 4-Feb-1941 boiler explosion, showing the boiler landing on the REA car, having jumped clear over K-59 #1207.
Date: 01 Jan 2008
Owner: Nathan Holmes Collection
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DRGW 1804, presumably being delivered from the factory at Parkersburg, WV, on 28-Jan-1938. Photographer unknown.
Date: 11 Nov 2006
Owner: Nathan Holmes Collection
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D&RGW 1804 at the Salt Lake City shops - note switcher 01 behind the unit. Photographer and date unknown, but likely in the mid-1930s.
Date: 10 Oct 2006
Owner: Nathan Holmes Collection
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D&RGW 1804, date and location unknown (though it looks like Salt Lake City). Originally from the Kenneth Clyde Jenkins collection.
Date: 11 Nov 2006
Owner: Nathan Holmes Collection
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