Re: RGS Freight Cars

RonRudnick Wrote:
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> Almost all of the RGS freight was originally built
> for the D&RG. And a good many of them later went
> to the Denver & Rio Grande Western (Utah) and then
> were later sold to the RGS after the Rio Grande
> Western was standard gauged

For the first few decades of the RGS' life that was most certainly true. But after the arrival of the Miller cars in 1938, the vast majority of RGS revenue freight cars were actually of C&S heritage. By the end of RGS operations I don't know that there were many if any revenue ex-D&RG cars. Many of the outfit/B&B cars were of D&RG 4000-series provenance though.

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Dave Vollmer
Rio Grande Southern in HOn3
Colorado Midland in N scale

Colorado Springs, CO