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Denver, Mesa & Gunnison No. 26

In 1923, the DM&G introduced an elegant new scheme for its passenger locomotives. Harkening back to the first five engines on the line, these new engines wore white-and-purple pinstriping and dark green boiler jackets; only slight differences from the freight engines, but differences a trained eye could appreciate.

No. 26 was the first to wear the "Rocky Air Line" scheme, and was the last painted out of it in 1947, when the postwar electric fleet booted it off most passenger trains. No. 26 continued in mail and off-hours passenger service until 1957, when it was scrapped.