{"id":3163,"date":"2022-12-25T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T15:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2022-12-25T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T15:33:44","slug":"steaming-up-the-rgs-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/12\/25\/steaming-up-the-rgs-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Steaming Up the RGS #22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mr. William H. Radcliffe recorded this scene of the Rio Grande Southern #22 as she was sitting at the entry to the roundhouse in Ridgway, Colorado.  It&#8217;s a chilly late fall day in October of 1942, and it appears that the locomotive is being steamed up in preparation for its day of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The #22 is the sister of the #20 that we saw in last week&#8217;s post, and is one of three 4-6-0 locomotives that were purchased from the defunct Florence &amp; Cripple Creek Railroad in 1916.  She was built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1900 as the F&amp;CC #24, and was named &#8220;Last Dollar&#8221;.  The RGS classified her as a \u201cT-19\u201d locomotive in 1921, and she was scrapped in 1946.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/RGS-4-6-0-22-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/RGS-4-6-0-22-1.jpg\" alt=\"RGS 4-6-0 #22\" class=\"wp-image-3162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/RGS-4-6-0-22-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/RGS-4-6-0-22-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/RGS-4-6-0-22-1-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/RGS-4-6-0-22-1-500x300.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">RGS 4-6-0 #22<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. William H. Radcliffe recorded this scene of the Rio Grande Southern #22 as she was sitting at the entry to the roundhouse in Ridgway, Colorado. It&#8217;s a chilly late fall day in October of 1942, and it appears that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/12\/25\/steaming-up-the-rgs-22\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos-i-like","category-railfanning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}