Denver & Rio Grande Western

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Fortunately for us, some remnants remain in operation today-- notably the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge RR and the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR.  It doesn't take much prowling around to find many traces of the Rio Grande.

There are also many sites that preserve pieces of equipment.  Ridgway has a museum; Alamosa, Cimarron, Gunnison have displays, and one need not mention the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden.  There are many other locations where traces remain, in formal preserves and otherwise.

Below is a sampling of photos showing remaining traces of narrow-gauge equipment.

Rolling Stock
	Baggage & Mail car at Hermosa, now being used as a storage shed by the D&SNG.
	Caboose No. 0575, on display at Ridgway.  This is a sister to the 0500 that is used on the D&SNG.
	String of derelict freight cars, stored on the house track at Tacoma, north of Rockwood on the Silverton line.  Included are several gondolas, stock cars, and flat cars.
	Stock Car No. 5574 on display at Ridgway.  The museum crew also uses it to store materials for projects in progress.
	Stock Car No. 5591, stored at Tacoma.  It's definitely seen better days.
	Bottom-dump gondola No. 702, on display at Ridgway.  The museum is seeking assistance with completing restoration-- contact them for details.
	Box Car 3130 at Ridgway.  Interesting that this car shares a number with a standfard-gaugeGP40-2 diesel locomotive!  They were never on the roster at the same time, however.
	Narrow Gauge Flatcar No. 6672, being used as a private bridge over a ditch in Farmington, NM. This car was built as a standard gauge boxcar in 1909, and was converted to a narrow gauge flat in 1956.
	Consolidation locomotive (class C-16) No. 268, on display in a park in Gunnison.  She wears the flashy "Bumblebee" scheme that dates to ~ 1950.  I have a photo of this same loco, painted roughly the same, in my book.  She was one of only four steamers to be so painted.
	A sad photo indeed, this is the cab from K-37 locomotive No. 496.  It sits on the ground at Hermosa, along with the other junk.  How it came to rest here, I'm not entirely sure.
Plant
	Motorcar shed at Hermosa, although it's not used for that any more.  It might seem unremarkable, except as compared to a similar structure at West Portal, showing that the general design for these sheds was used all over the D&RGW system.
Castings
	Narrow-gauge truck bolster at Hermosa.  This piece was cast in a railroad foundry, sometime prior to 1908-- or at least, the mold was constructed before that date.  (In 1908 the D&RG Railway and the Rio Grande Western were consolidated as the D&RG Railroad.)
	Flatcar No. 6519 was built in April 1942, and is now used by the D&S.  Pictured here at Hermosa, a close-up of a truck reveals another in-house casting.  Note the "D&RGW" cast onto the sideframe.
	Also on No. 6519, a stake pocket shows off D&RGW lettering-- the railroad even cast the pockets for its rolling stock.  Yes, the other stake pockets on this car bore the same markings.