| Colorado & Southern "Mogul" |
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Scale/Gauge: 1/22.5 (45mm) Total weight:
5.8kg Engine 3.65kg, Tender 2.15kg. Length: O.C 643.6mm , Width:
106mm, Height 206.8mm, Driving wheel dia. 45mm, Boiler
type: Center Flue, Water capacity: 180 ccm
80% full, Fittings:2x safety valves, pressure gauge,
check valve, throttle valve, Blower valve, Fuel: Butane gas, Lubricator:
Roscoe displacement type, Engine:2 cylinders, Bore 12mm stroke
18mm, Valve gear: Waelscherts, Tender water tank capacity:
200 ccm, Gas tank capacity 60 ccm at 80% full, Minimum turning
radius: 2meter, Total production: 480 units
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| History: The Union Pacific was supporting two Colorado narrow gauge Railroads in the 1870-1880's, the Colorado Central and the Denver, South Park & Pacific. In the early 1880's the UP purchased 16 identical 2-6-0's from the Brooks locomotive works of Dunkirk NY. In 1898 The UP was forced to return the South Park & Pacific to independent status and after some shuffling it emerged in 1902 as the Colorado & Southern, (later to be purchased by Burlington). By then, all but 2 of the Moguls were scrapped. Of the 2 survivors, the South Park #35 "Dillon" became C&S # 22. She was finally scrapped in 1927. Even though #22 and its sister #21 were reffered to as the "Brooks Moguls", in the end very little of the originals was left, each having been completely rebuilt. Aster has modeled C&S Mogul # 22 capturing the look and feel of this 3 ft. gauger as she appeared toward the end of her career in the mid 1920's. The realistic detailing includes the "Ridgeway Bear trap spark arrestor" worn by all C&S motive power in that era an the unique cross mounted air tank on top of the boiler crested with a bell. |
| Below: Two rare pictures of the original C&S Mogul # 22 |
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