Elvas Tower: RGS Class T-19 No. 20 - Elvas Tower

RGS Class T-19 number 20 was one of six locomotives built by Schenectady between 1899 and 1900 for the Florence and Cripple Creek RR. It, along with No. 22 and 25, was obtained by the RGS, in 1916, after the F&CC ceased operations. No. 22 and 25 were removed from service, cannibalized, and eventually scrapped in the early 1940s, but No.20, although in need of a complete overhaul, was kept in service until the line ceased operations in 1951

Fortunately it was purchased by the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club in 1952 and subsequently donated to the Colorado Railroad Museum. It is presently at Strasburg, Pa .undergoing a complete overhaul thanks to an anonymous benefactor.

This model was made by a team consisting of Howard Saunders, who did file and texture tweaking, Herb Kelsey, who was the RGS technical guru as well as performing file and texture tweaking, and myself who built the model and did the basic texturing. There is no way that I could have completed the model without the valuable assistance of those other two individuals. They not only provided technical assistance, but continuously encouraged and prodded me to finish the project.

It was modeled from plans from the Maxwell Collection with some details from plans by Ken Pruitt, and is modeled in it's 1944 to1947 configuration. Most visual detail is from Vol. XII of the RGS Story and from Herb Kelsey's vast collection of RGS photographs. The screen shot is also courtesy of Herb Kelsey.

A model of No. 22 is in the process of being built and should be released soon, and it is planned to make a model of No. 25 after that.

To install this model Create a new file in your Trainset folder and copy all files from the accompanying Zip file into it.

I hope you enjoy running it as much as I did building it. Bill

Original File Name = T19_No20_UL.zip