Klondike Mines #4
This is KMRY #4, a 1912 Baldwin 10-24 1/4 D91 (the one and only!) It was originally manufactured for the Klondike Mines Railway Company of Dawson City, YK, but only operated there for 2-3 summers. (The operations were seasonal, for the dredges couldn't stir up the ground in the winter.) After the KMRY closed, it sat in a shed throughout the 1920s and '30s until our good ol' friend WW2 came along. The White Pass & Yukon Route needed more motive power, due to an increase of traffic during war efforts, so this lil gal operated in Skagway as a switcher before travelling through the Midwest to many amusement parks and tourist railroads before winding up on the Georgetown Loop for display in the early 2000s('90s?). It sat there until it was bought by the Brantigan family, who moved it into its current home of Como, Colorado in 2016-17. It operated into I think 2021 before going down for a full overhaul, which is the state it is in today. The SPRS (South Park Rail Society) and others plan to restore it to operational condition, and hopefully to its 1912 appearance.