Re: C&S on the D&RGW 3rd Division

Posted by Derrell Poole on Jan 13, 2015; 2:57am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-on-the-D-RGW-3rd-Division-tp194p213.html

I'd like to see that photo but I don't have that book. I'm not saying Never but here are some key factors to consider - for those who do have the photo:

1911 is typically recognized as the last year any C&Sng would have appeared west of the Tunnel - and they were on their way over Marshall Pass to Leadville.

Iirc the Flying Rio Grande trademark was a 1940s Herald. By then all C&Sng freight cars were either in Leadville or the Denver area - or in hayfields and barn years disguised as sheds.I would be amused - maybe even surprised to see a Block Lettered ng Coal car next to a Flying Herald Gon. Not saying never but seems highly unlikely.

The RGS never had any C&Sng Coal cars so pretty sure it wasn't from that road.

On the other hand there is that photo on page 141 of "Goin' Railroading' with what looks like D&RG gons at the Golf Mill below Romley in 1918. That makes plenty of sense since the third rail was still in place in the Arkansas Valley.