Earl, according to a book I have titled "Oahu's Narrow Gauge Navy Rail" the Navy got the 76 cars from the C&S. It does not specify if they were cars meant for the RGS. In addition to the cars from the D&RGW I listed, the USN also got cars from the SP narrow gauge, and a number from the Nevada County Narrow Gauge, some of which were second hand FCC cars. So the Navy in Hawaii in WWII was a real narrow gauge museum.
Elk Mountain Pilot
December 24, 1942, Thursday
LAST OF 87 FREIGHT CARS FOR HAWAII DELIVERED HERE
According to W.S. Gilmer, round house foreman here the last of 87 narrow gauge box and flat cars reconditioned at Gunnison's Rio Grande shops by the Chicago Freight Car Parts Company were delivered to the government this week and are on their way to Honolulu. After Pearl Harbor the Army undertook a renovation of numerous little systems on the Hawaiian Islands in the interest of nation defense and as slim gauge repair facilities were good locally, the company which had the contract has had 16 to 18 men at work here. Of the cars, 76 were purchased from the old Colorado and Southern, and only 11 secured locally.
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