Mac Poor article highlights

In doing some research for a new Bogies and the Loop article I came across an article by M.C. Poor published in the October 1948 Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin.  It was entitled "The Locomotives of the South Park R. R."

This post and a the next few have some highlights that interested me.

In a discussion of the first locomotive on the South Park called "Fairplay," Poor writes,

"Joe Plunkett, veteran South Park runner now living in Grand Junction, Colorado, writes that, to the best of his recollection, no. 1 was later used to pump water at the roundhouse in Como but was taken up to Denver around 1884.  No. 1 was scrapped in 1888.  As far as the writer knows, no photograph of this engine exists."