something interesting on the d&rgw

[skol587]

i was watching a video and it showed the round house and it was full of the k type locomotives and i saw some thing out of the ordinary a 36in gp9

 

[bdaneal]

The D&RGW had only one 36 inch gauge diesel, #50 (they did borrow two Army ones for a while in the '50s). The GP9 you saw was one of their standard gauge machines.

Cheers,
Ben

 

[skol587]

was 50 located at alamosa (not sure if i spelt it rite)
because it was parked on a garden track ill try to set a screen shot of the video i saw.

buy the was i love the uintah locomotives you made, do you plan on making any more uintah stuff.

 

[skol587]

here i have a screen shot from the sceen[img=http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/2028/snapshot20080403164650av0.th.png]

 

[bdaneal]

50 was based in Durango. In later years Alamosa was one of the few (I want to say 3) meeting points of Standard and Narrow gauge on the D&RGW. That is most definately a standard gauge GP9, possibly assigned to the Creede branch.
Alamosa's joining of Std. and NG makes for some interesting photos.
All via the Denver Public Library:
K-37 491 posed with F-81 (2-10-2) 1403.

F-81 1400 sitting next to K-37 491.

S-12 73 with RGS 0404.

S-12 #73 with Army 3000.
3000 was one of two 3ft gauge diesels the D&RGW borrowed from the Army. (the other was 2700N, IIRC)

My arch-nemesis, a Phase I GE 44 tonner. It is shuffling a few 3000 series boxcars.

A C-48 hauling 3 narrow gauge passenger cars.

M-64 (4-8-4) 1701 waiting with a K-28.

An L-131 class 2-8-8-2, facing off against a pair of K-36s.

Cheers,
Ben

 

[atsfrr3000]

Haha, all those pictures look like something from a toy train show, with S scale trains right beside O scale trains