The Colorado Mountains are a veritable gold mine for old engines thanks to the gold-mining boom of the late 1800s. The small town of Gold Hill was aptly named for that era, but one of the biggest mines in town was the Copper King, known surprisingly not for copper but for nickel. The mine ran from the late 1800s until 1946 and was one of only two known nickel mines in the state.
In the later years of the mine, the workhorse of
