I turned 16 in April, 1958 and within days had my driver's licence. When the fall sugar beet season arrived that fall, the C&S needed to put a number of steam locomotives into service to handle the extra tonnage. Now that I could drive, my friend John Fresques and I made several clandestine trips to Cheyenne, Wyoming, 100 miles to the north of our home in Denver. Our parents would never have allowed us to drive that far had they any clue at all about what we were doing: witnessing and photographing the end of steam-railroad operation in America. No. 646 and No. 803 were assigned to switching duties. Road engine 900 was assigned to Denver-to-Cheyenne runs. Locomotives 800 and 802 were no longer being used when John and I first showed up, then were scrapped next to the roundhouse. The last two photos on this page show two photos of the partially scrapped 802, taken a few weeks apart. The gasoline-electric passenger car No. 9768, shown in the second photo on the left belonged to the C&S's parent company, the CB&Q, and is shown here arriving from its run to Sterling, Colorado. These photos were taken in Jan through July of 1959.
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