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The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (reporting mark DRGW), often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company. The railroad started as a 3 ft ( 914 mm ) narrow-gauge line running south from Denver , Colorado , in 1870.
Denver & Rio Grande Western R.R. Class K-28. Originally, D&RGW #472. Purchased by the U.S. Army in 1942 for use on the WP&YR. Wrecked and shipped to Auburn, Washington in 1944. Scrapped in 1946. [9] [59] USA 253 American Locomotive Co. 2-8-2. 27,540 lbf (122.5 kN) September 1923 64985 Denver & Rio Grande Western R.R. Class K-28. Originally, D ...
The (used) 1910 trucks were from one of the three buffet-library cars originally built for the Western Pacific, which were renumbered 981, 982, and 984 in 1915–16. These buffet-library cars were moved to a lower service as D&RGW baggage cars 741, 742, and 744, and their six-wheel trucks replaced with two-axle trucks in 1929. Four of these ...
Rio Grande 315 or Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Locomotive No. 315 or D&RGW 315: Steam "C-18" 2-8-0 narrow-gauge 1895 built 2008 NRHP-listed Durango, CO: Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad: CO-07 Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad No. 683 or Rio Grande 683: Steam coal-burning 2-8-0 "Consolidation" 1890 Colorado Railroad Museum ...
From the 1930s through the 1950s, many trains in the United States and Canada were upgraded with streamliner cars. One of the most notable trains equipped with such cars was the California Zephyr, jointly operated by Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) and Western Pacific Railroad (WP).
The Prospector was a passenger train operated by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad between Denver, Colorado and Salt Lake City, Utah. There were two incarnations of the train: a streamlined, diesel multiple unit train that operated briefly in 1941 and 1942; and a locomotive -hauled train of conventional passenger equipment that operated ...
The Denver and Rio Grande Western K-37 is a class of 2-8-2 "Mikado" type narrow-gauge steam locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. They were new steam locomotives built in the D&RGW Burnham Shops as a near copy of the Rio Grande class K-36 . [ 3 ]
The following rail lines have been owned or operated by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad or its predecessors. Denver-Pueblo Joint Line: Denver (Union Station) to Pueblo. Fort Logan Branch: Englewood (Military Junction) to Fort Logan; Lehigh Branch: Louviers (Lehigh Junction) to Lehigh Mine; Castle Rock Branch: Castle Rock to Hathaway