Another Day (and cab ride!) on The Georgetown Loop

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Join me and @slug96 as we go for a ride on the Georgetown Loop on a beautiful summer day in 2022. We'll be above, onboard, and in the cab as we ride along in International Railway of Central America 'Consolidation' # 111, a 2-8-0 built by Baldwin in 1926. The 111 has been in Colorado since the 1970's when she came with her sister 40, but went and laid forlorn near Fort Lupton at the stillborn 'Sundown and Southern Railroad'. This outside framed consolidation now does tourist duty on the relaid Colorado and Southern Clear Creek Branch between Georgetown and Silver Plume. We'll ride from the Devil's Gate Station and around the look over our own track via the Devil's Gate Viaduct, a reproduction of the original trestle that spanned the chasm here.
From Wikipedia: "The Georgetown Loop Railroad was one of Colorado's first visitor attractions. This spectacular stretch of 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad, built by the Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville Railway, was completed in 1884 and considered an engineering marvel for its time. The thriving mining towns of Georgetown and Silver Plume lie 2 miles (3.2 km) apart in the steep, narrow canyon of Clear Creek in the Rocky Mountains west of Denver. Engineers designed a corkscrew route that traveled nearly twice that distance to connect them, slowly gaining more than 600 feet (183 m) in elevation. The route included horseshoe curves, grades of up to 4%, and four bridges across Clear Creek, including the massive Devil's Gate High Bridge.
The Georgetown, Breckenridge, and Leadville Railroad had been formed in 1881 under the Union Pacific Railroad] The Loop portion of the line was the crowning segment of the line, crossing the top of the gorge on a 95-foot (29 m) high trestle.
Originally part of the larger line of the Colorado Central Railroad constructed in the 1870s and 1880s, in the wake of the Colorado Gold Rush, this line was also used extensively during the silver boom of the 1880s to haul silver ore from the mines at Silver Plume. In 1893, the Colorado and Southern Railway took over the line and operated it for passengers and freight until 1938."

[@whitcraft4578]

Another "Great" Big Diehl. Amazing!😎

[@Big_Diehl]

Aww shucks... Thank you!

[@jonlevin4132]

You got to ride in the cab... Ok, I'm officially envious.

[@slanderedstone]

A good video to end 2022 on! cheers to the new year!

[@ehadder]

Doesn’t that loco have a front end throttle? If so, I’m surprised to see the location of the throttle handle in the cab. And speaking of the cab, not the most comfortable layout, sitting astride the boiler.

[@Big_Diehl]

It appears it does have a front end throttle, but I don’t know why it’s set up like that.
As for the cab, it wasn’t much more better on the gangway either as three of us were there on the plate.

[@averycamden4730]

It gets a little toasty.

[@YardLimit]

Nice editing!

[@Big_Diehl]

Can’t say there was much… most of it was in camera… and it didn’t help I was nursing both a bad eye from a condition I have… AND a hangover from hitting up Denver the day before. I’d wished I knew we were even doing this, otherwise I might have brought the Z6 instead of the ZFC