Welcome! Log In Create A New Profile

Re: How did scrap from the RGS leave?

Forum List Message List New Topic Print View

hank

August 07, 2018 09:38AM

Registered: 16 years ago
Posts: 3,828

CVR220 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> I presume scrap from the south end left toward
> Alamosa

I've read that it was trucked to Gallup, New Mexico.

> and was probably mostly track materials.
> From Ridgway, did the scrap leave before or after
> the branch from Montrose was standard gauged?

Yes.

> Are
> there photos of pieces of the 455 and 461, rotary
> plow, etc., being loaded or hauled away in
> gondolas?

No. But there are pictures of them being cut up on-site at Ridgway in May of '53.
hank

Reply Quote

Message List Previous Message Next Message

RSS

Subject	Author	Posted
How did scrap from the RGS leave?	CVR220	August 07, 2018 09:04AM
Re: How did scrap from the RGS leave?	hank	August 07, 2018 09:38AM

Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.

Click here to login

488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter

The NGDF was started by Don Richter and is currently operated in his memory by Nathan Holmes and others. Others who have contributed to the upkeep of this board are (in no particular order): Charles McCandless, Everett Lueck, Ted Wilton, Cole Adams, James Bane, John Moellmer, Jon Bentz, Linn Moedinger, lloyd lehrer, Rod Jensen, John Craft, Steven Forney, Herb Kelsey, Bill Ramaley, Russ Sperry (El Russo Loco), Josh McNeal, John West, Jim Armstrong, Bob Bergstrom, Greg Scholl, Blake Forbes Doug van Veelen and Mark Fuller.