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D&RGW T-12

Denver & Rio Grande Western class T-12s are 4-6-0, Ten-Wheeler type, narrow-gauge steam locomotives. They were built for the Denver & Rio Grande Railway by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as an order of 12 class 47N passenger locomotives in 1883-1884. They were reclassified in 1924 as T-12.

These locomotives were larger than the previous passenger locomotives, mainly 4-4-0's and smaller 4-6-0's. These locomotives operated system-wide on the higher class passenger trains, running from Denver over the Palmer Divide to Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Canon City, through the Royal Gorge to Salida, over Monarch Pass to Gunnison, through the Black Canyon and Cerro Summit to Montrose and Grande Junction. They did not operate on into Utah because the then Denver & Rio Grande Western (later Rio Grande Western) was a separate company. They also operated on the San Juan Extension from Alamosa to Durango and Silverton. When the Class K-28 2-8-2's began arriving in 1923, they were relegated to branch-line and mixed trains, such as the Santa Fe Branch, the Pagosa Springs Branch, the Lake City Branch and the Ouray Branch.

Only two T-12's survive, one on display in Colorado Springs, Colorado and the other on display in Alamosa, Colorado. Neither one is operational.