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Baldwin built this engine and four other 2-8-0 (Consolidation) type engines for the Denver & Rio Grande in 1882. In the same year that railroad, building westward from Pueblo, Colorado, reached the Utah state line and connected with the Denver & Rio Grande Western, a road built wholly within Utah. Since 1920 the two systems have been one, owned by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Company. This is the only railroad in America that still operates some narrow (3') gauge trackage in addition to its standard (4' 8 1/2") gauge. The 268 is a narrow-gauge engine, Class C-16. She weighs 69,110 pounds, with 36" driving wheels, 15x20" cylinders, and 69,540 pounds of force. Now retired, she stands on permanent exhibition at Gunnison, Colorado, one of the many iron horses that have been preserved and donated to communities as memorials of the Steam Age.
THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY
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