Re: Color of RGS Passenger Cars in 1930s?

RGS' revenue passenger trains before the Geese were a first class accommodation from Telluride to Ridgway and return with a baggage car and two coaches - it had a parlor in the early days - and second class trains from Telluride to Durango and vice versa, carrying a baggage car and coach and a few cars of 'priority' freight. It was common practice to run the south end trains backwards to and from Telluride with the engine pulling on the coach end. The engine would turn at Illium and put itself on the front of the train, back into Vance Jct. and then forward to Durango. This procedure was reversed in the opposite direction. South end trains would change numbers at Vance Jct. as they ran one timetable direction from Telluride to Vance and the other direction from Vance to Durango.

As to the color of the cars, red before 1919 then green until no longer in service with the coming of the Geese. Then a different red in MOW service. Revenue red was more of a maroon with gold lettering whereas MOW red was more mineral red like the cabooses, with white lettering.