Colorado Narrow Gauge 2024 Calendar

Book Synopsis: A rail-fan favorite, Colorado Narrow Gauge pictures the trains of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Established in 1870, the Rio Grande eventually operated 2,783 miles of track connecting Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. Serving mountain communities, farms, and mines from the 1800s into the mid-1900s, the Rio Grande ran trains through mountain gorges, and across the highest rail mainline in America to deliver on the D&RG’s early motto, “Through the Rockies, not around them.” Locomotives and trains featured include:
Denver and Rio Grande Western 476 and 478 have stopped at Needleton, CO, to take on water. It is June 1, 1957.
Denver and Rio Grande 487 is on the point of a southbound freight on the Farmington Branch about five miles south of Cedar Hill, NM, on October 30, 1963.
Denver and Rio Grande Western 499 is on the point of an east bound livestock train in October 1963. This one is loaded with sheep. There is a helper on the rear end.
Rio Grande Southern 42 is leading a westbound scrapping train through Wildcat Canyon, about eight miles west of Durango, CO, on September 11, 1952.
Denver and Rio Grande Western 493, a Class K-37 2-8-2, is at the coal dock at Alamosa, being prepared for a west-bound train out of Alamosa, CO, in May 1955.
Denver and Rio Grande Western 482 is on the point, and 486 is a rear-end helper (both are Class K-36 Mikado 2-8-2’s), on an 11-car east bound Cumbres Turn coming through the east end of the Narrows, a little more than a mile west of Lobato, NM, on June 3, 1957.
Here is a view of Galloping Goose #4 as originally built, sitting in front of the Ridgway roundhouse on June 29, 1944. In the fall of 1945, Geese #3, #4, and #5 were all refurbished with Wayne bus bodies.
Denver and Rio Grande Western 480 is leading an eastbound excursion special on the “Old Line” through Arboles, CO, on June 8, 1960.
Denver and Rio Grande Western 490, a Class K-37 Mikado 2-8-2, has a southbound Farmington Turn just starting out of Durango Yard in August 1958.
Fall colors are at their peak as Denver and Rio Grande Western 498 leads an east bound freight across the Lobato Trestle four miles east of Chama, NM, in October 1956.
Denver and Rio Grande Western 464, a Class K-27 Mudhen, is leading a Silverton mixed train northbound at Rockwood, CO, on September 12, 1956. This is one of an order of 15 locomotives purchased from the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1903.
Denver and Rio Grande Western 473 is making what will be the last ever water stop at Gato, CO, on December 6, 1968.
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