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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.
Rio Grande Southern Railroad: Ridgway (Ouray Branch) to Durango. Telluride Branch: Vance Junction to Pandora; References. D&RGW track profiles: 1923, 1934, and 1969
D&RGW president Palmer and D&RG president Frederick Lovejoy got into an argument over the management and payment of rental for the leased D&RGW. Unable to break the lease, Lovejoy ordered the tracks torn up at the state line in retaliation, costing both railroads the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 's through traffic.
In the 1800s, D&RGW 268 and her sister engines were the premier motive power for the railroad, hauling passenger trains and top-priority freight trains. [ 11 ] [ 5 ] Decades later, in the 20th century, the aging narrow-gauge engine was relegated to low-priority trains on secondary and branch lines.
In places where the D&RGW's standard gauge system met the narrow gauge system, the railroad operated dual gauge trackage, with three rails, so that standard gauge equipment ran on the outer two rails and three foot gauge equipment ran on one of the outer rails and a third rail, inside the other two. Since the narrow gauge equipment was much ...
D&RGW #346 Built for the D&RG as #406 "Cumbres" in 1881 by Baldwin, a 2-8-0 Consolidation Locomotive, Classed as a "Class 70" Locomotive. Renumbered to #346 in 1921, and classed a "C-19" Locomotive. Leased to the RGS at one point in time, leased to the C&S from 1935 to 1937. Sold to the Montezuma Lumber Company railroad in 1947. [7]
California Zephyr at the depot on its last western run, 1970. The depot was constructed by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in 1910 at a cost of US$750,000. [2] The depot was the main jewel of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, and was designed by Chicago architect Henry Schlacks, who was best known in Chicago for his design of churches, but had also designed the Denver and ...
It was built by the D&RGW during the 1880s as part of a planned rail link with El Paso, Texas. However, construction didn't go beyond Española due to a dispute with the nearby Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. In 1887, the last 35 miles from Española to Santa Fe was opened by the Texas, Santa Fe & Northern Railroad, a subsidiary of the D ...