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CB&Q 2-10-2 Class M-2-A 6148

Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad 2-10-2 Class M-2-A 6148 at the Seventh Street Roundhouse in Denver, Colorado on November 17, 1939, photograph by J. Schick, print by Gordon C. Bassett, Chuck Zeiler collection. Number 6148 was built by Baldwin in 1919 (c/n 51640) and sold for scrap in February 1954. The extended smokebox and yellow square painted on the rear of the tender's coal bunker indicate L & B Front End, which translates to Lignite and Bituminous Coal used as the fuel.

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Taken on November 17, 1939