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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 Denver & Rio Grande Railway (D&RG) was incorporated on October 27, 1870, by General William Jackson Palmer (1836–1909), and a board of four directors. It was originally announced that the new 3 ft (914 mm) railroad would proceed south from Denver and travel an estimated 875 miles (1,408 km) south to El Paso via Pueblo, westward along the Arkansas River, and continue southward through the ...
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 ...
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).
Rio Grande 268 is a 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type narrow-gauge steam locomotive built for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1882. It is one of three surviving locomotives in D&RG class 60.
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 ...
The Monarch Branch was a branch line of the Denver & Rio Grande Western built in the 1880s to serve the Colorado Fuel & Iron limestone quarry at Monarch, Colorado.Originally part of the D&RGW's 3 ft 0 in (914 mm) narrow-gauge system, the 15 mile line connected with the rest of the narrow-gauge network at Poncha Junction, on the Marshall Pass line.
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 ...