Colorado Railroad Museum Shares #TBT (ThrowbackThursday) – 15″ Gauge Scale K-27 Test Runs 1976

Press release from the Colorado Railroad Museum:

May 20, 2021

It’s #TBT and for throwback Thursday we have some “home movie” footage from Colorado Railroad Museum volunteer George Lawrence.

On a wet and messy spring day in early 1976 George traveled with Museum founder Robert “Bob” W. Richardson and 4 other Museum volunteers to Strasburg, CO. They had heard rumors of test runs being conducted for the newly built 15″ gauge replica K-27 of Steam Locomotive No. 463. The footage includes a view filmed from the tinder and a glimpse of the Strasburg Depot before it was moved. The locomotive was shipped to the McCormick Railroad Park in May or June of 1976 and was most recently photographed in Strasburg in 2009.

Do you have any “home movies” that feature the Colorado Railroad Museum or Colorado Railroads and you’d like to share it? Contact the Museum’s Multimedia Coordinator Matthew Isaacks at matthew@crrm.org. In 2021 the Museum is operating socially distanced train rides each Saturday!

This press release was produced by the Colorado Railroad Museum. The views expressed are the author's own.