Monday, March 2, 2015

Video of C&S 9 in 1948 or 1949




C&S 9 has had three reincarnations since it's last days on the Clear Creek lines in the early 1940s.  Its second return to life was for the Chicago Railroad Fair in 1948 and 1949.  The tiny mogul was doused in red paint and rechristened "Chief Crazy Horse" to pull visitors around the fair in the theme of an old-time western train.

I was truly surprised to have found actual video footage of number 9 at work at the fair.  Here is a home video that the Youtube poster's father made of the fair.  At about :41 you will see a short clip of the engine pulling past the camera.  You don't get a good view of the engine, but it's her all right.  She is followed by a surprisingly long train of coaches and excursion cars.  The train doesn't show up anymore after that, though the narrator does mention the train as a "narrow gauge train from Colorado" later in the video.

I presume the combine and observation car are the C&S RPO car and observation car that still reside in Silver Plume.





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