Re: D&RG "longhorns" on the C&S??

Posted by Jim Courtney on Mar 02, 2017; 6:39pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Cars-on-the-D-RGW-at-Marshall-Pass-tp7805p7875.html

I'm usually not that enthusiastic about D&RG freight cars (probably comes from building too many 3000 series boxcars in my youth).

But these photos and Pat's research means that these D&RG cars were hauled over Fremont and Boreas passes and up Chalk Creek, often by 2, 3 or 4 C&S locomotives, in trains trailed by a C&S bobber caboose.

Suddenly that makes these cars fascinating.

And Mike, seems like you've already done the CAD work for D&RG 4 board stakes with the large cast stake pockets.  Any chance of another Shapeways gondola stake project?  A couple of D&RG gons might make an interesting addition to a 1909 C&S scene.

Weren't the stakes and stake pockets on the 1000-1249 gons of 1902 the same as on the dump gons 1250-1499? Any builders photos of the 1000-1249 standard flat bottom gons?